Looking for self education resources
by Fisk from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4XN54)
Hey all,
So, I just got back into Linux, which can appropriately be understood as my first honest exploration of the Unix base, around a year ago. What had happened was, I just got fed up with NS systems. Thus, I did what any rational person would do by creating a live disk and subsequently taking the sledgehammer of dd to my entire hard drive. While the action undoubtedly did more good than harm, there are probably less extreme measures that could have been taken. Regardless, after about a week or two of frustrations and hardly being able to use my PC, I became competent enough to have the system properly partitioned and running smoothly and haven't had any real problems, at least none I was not able to overcome by using a search engine, since. Anyway, all of that is neither here nor there and is being stated only as a general indicator so that you all are able to make a rough estimation in relation to my experience level. Basically, I know enough to break my shit and, sometimes, I know enough to fix it.
What I am looking for are resources, preferably free, so as to better understand the entire process of what makes Linux tick. What I am thinking, at least in regards to the distro I will use to achieve this end, is building my own desktop in Arch. Any suggestions?
So, I just got back into Linux, which can appropriately be understood as my first honest exploration of the Unix base, around a year ago. What had happened was, I just got fed up with NS systems. Thus, I did what any rational person would do by creating a live disk and subsequently taking the sledgehammer of dd to my entire hard drive. While the action undoubtedly did more good than harm, there are probably less extreme measures that could have been taken. Regardless, after about a week or two of frustrations and hardly being able to use my PC, I became competent enough to have the system properly partitioned and running smoothly and haven't had any real problems, at least none I was not able to overcome by using a search engine, since. Anyway, all of that is neither here nor there and is being stated only as a general indicator so that you all are able to make a rough estimation in relation to my experience level. Basically, I know enough to break my shit and, sometimes, I know enough to fix it.
What I am looking for are resources, preferably free, so as to better understand the entire process of what makes Linux tick. What I am thinking, at least in regards to the distro I will use to achieve this end, is building my own desktop in Arch. Any suggestions?