Tuesday, March 22 2005 @ 09:21 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
Here's a tutorial on what's available via the command-line in Linux. The target audience appears to be Windows users making the switch.
At this stage of the Mastering Linux Workshops, you should have a running Linux system and have experimented a little with the X Windows GUI. But in order to master Linux, you’ll need to become familiar with the command line console.
Master and commander
Today’s Linux is a command line operating system, but you can load up a GUI interface if you wish. In the interests of being more user-friendly, most Linux distributions (including Fedora Core) automatically boot to the X Windows GUI if it’s installed — otherwise, you’ll have to work at the command line console.
But even if your Linux system boots to the X Windows GUI, you should have a good understanding of how to do things from the console.
But the console is useful for many other reasons. It’s far more efficient when it comes to performing some tasks from a command line, not to mention that most GUI applications rely on running many of the command-line functions in the background.
Right from the outset, you should read this guide from beginning to end. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it all straight away. Some of the concepts explained here will only become clear once you’ve had more exposure to Linux.
