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Free book: The Easiest Linux Guide You’ll Ever Read

suseblog.com — The author Scott Morris says: "After several months of writing and revising, I have made available the Easiest Linux Guide You ’ll Ever Read. It is a book geared towards people who are competent with using Windows, who have never attempted to use Linux but are interested in giving it a try."

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  • SomeoneElse1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6neat
  • Cbeck527, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4Since you opened this comment, you will have good luck!
  • RangerRuss, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2No digg, yet anyways. Can't open page. Anybody got a mirror site?
  • egrabosky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1dugg to death already: (
    • av4rice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The Easiest Linux Guide You CAN'T Read
  • arkitect, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Poor server...
  • kckman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0another dead blog.. who'd have figured?
  • egrabosky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5http://www.duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Free_book_The_Easiest_Linux_Guide_You_ll_Ever_Read/
    • egrabosky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dammit! The link to the actual .pdf is dead!!!! Any mirror to that would be much appreciated.
  • romulasry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Error establishing a database connection

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  • YoDiggity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5::whine:: I tried to buy the domain 'linuxguides.org' (it was up for back order a few weeks ago) so I could make all these cool guides and documentation available, but I was outbidded. Hopefully the guy will do something with it, because it was just dumb advertisements before.
    /whining
  • ActiveMatx, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Would be nice if I could actually see the book! Can't download it. (Go ahead, give me a thumbs down, I know you guys do this, even though my comment isn't that bad)....
  • ActiveMatx, on 10/12/2007, -15/+0Would be nice if I could actually see the book! Can't download it. (Go ahead, give me a thumbs down, I know you guys do this, even though my comment isn't that bad)....
  • InsaneMachine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Someone here has to have it. Put it up on rapidshare or something.
  • Saoshyant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Google cache to the rescue!

    http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:_xicPifxjgYJ:www.suseblog.com/dl.php+&hl=pt-BR&gl=br&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a
  • thecheat1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah I'd like to see the book as well, somebody should upload a torrent or something.

    Edit:
    Nevermind, good find Saoshyant!!
  • MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, it got to the front page and isn't even being hindered by digg, it just isn't there!
  • ArcticCelt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A torrent link would be greatly appreciated.
  • t3hSmartKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great guide; I would recommend to a brand new user as well as a user that already has a little experience.

    Google cache link works for me.
  • dragonopolis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree. Is there another link to the .pdf via what ever transfer method so we can see what I assume are Pictures that go with the document. The google cache didn't display any pictures.
  • ZMerlin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Free book: The Easiest Linux Guide You’ll Never Read
  • ofc123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hey everybody,

    Download the complete version of the PDF book here:

    http://www.savefile.com/files/3339847

  • tuxuser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1looks great
  • Ghostgum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The eMule Content Database has an eD2k link for the pdf.
    http://content.emule-project.net/view.php?pid=1479
  • INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thanks to everybody for the mirrors to the actual PDF!
  • Ankh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The site is alive now! :-D
  • Rainbow101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Site isn't working
  • ScottJG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, I was just thinking about trying out linux yesterday (I admit I am an expert in Windows, but all other OS's I am an idiot) , and was looking for an updated beginnners guide. I figured I would search digg to see if there had been one posted in years before, but how funny was it that I found one on the front page!

    I could kiss Scott Morris!

    (But I wont)

  • stoffe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I prefer Ubuntu personally, but SUSE (shich the book mostly is about) is not a bad distro to try either, it's both shiny and easy to use. I'd recommend to try both. :)
  • PrimoTurbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not bad but the problem I see is that it doesn't show you how to get all the things normal users use on a computer.

    Flash, embeded mpeg/wmv files, video card drivers (or games in general), mp3s.
  • Ub3rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting to flip through, but shouldn't it be renamed The Easiest SUSE Linux Guide You'll Ever Read? Since its aimed at the absolute beginner and only really deals with SUSE, do they actually expect the reader to be able to translate and apply this to something like Ubuntu?

    Still very cool of him to offer it up for free
  • jonprc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0wow. just read it and i have to admit its pretty weak. and this coming from someone who just installed linux for the first time two days ago. it didnt provide much help at all unless youre going to be installing the suse distribution(it gives a step-by-step install). otherwise, it just glosses over everything else.
  • Patented, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I must disagree with those who feel that this article is weak. Being a linux user as far back as RH5, I can attest to SUSE being the "User friendly" distro that helped me replace having a windows box for day-to-day. Granted now, I run Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Ubuntu PPC on my 3 linux systems, but Suse was a gateway for me to get comfortable with a serious distro.

    Also, I have a subscription to Novell's free magazine, Connections... and they are strongly lauding the Linux desktop as a total IS solution (desktop/laptop/server), and in Novell's implementation, it works well. Suse is a solid stepping stone into getting Linux out there in the major leagues. I am a person that used to think Linux was only viable as a server OS, and a niche on the desktop. My opinion has gradually changed with the likes of the newer generation distros like SUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu.
  • Ace25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Guide is still useless for me. Been trying for 2 months now to get any flavor of linux installed in a server (Proxy) environment using SATA raid. 2 months later and I am still at square 1 trying to get the raid drivers to install (High Point) to no avail. Searched everywhere, called/emailed everyone I could, and still I can get it to install, and I can get everything configured (Squid/DansGuardian) but as soon as the server reboots its dead... no raid drivers, meaning no HDs seen on bootup.

    Why is it I can get a proxy running with this same hardware in under an hour with Windows (You know, an OS where when you put in the Raid driver disk by hitting F6 on install and it actually INSTALLS the drivers), yet, 2 months later, dozens of hours of phone calls/emails to support and "Community" Linux forums and I am no further along than I was on day 1. Doesn't help when the manual contradicts itself every other paragraph and tells you to work with file names that don't even exist in their drivers.

    I have seen plenty of these guides for setting up Linux as a desktop.. but I am purposely avoiding a GUI as its not needed, nor do I like KDE or Gnome. I have successfully installed pretty much every distro of linux on every piece of desktop hardware I ever owned without problems.. the biggest problem to me was once I had it installed what do I do with it... plain and simple Linux offered me nothing over windows and actually took away my favorite pastime, playing RTS games.

    I do think Linux is more stable in a server environment ONCE YOU GET IT RUNNING. Unfortunately, as I am finding out, hardware support is very limited and "working drivers" doesn't mean it works for everyone. Nor does "open source driver" actually mean "open source", look up High Points website to see what I mean. To me it looks like I made the wrong assumption, that if it works in Windows it will work in Linux.. not the case with SATA/Raid as well as other hardware features (Wifi, ACPI, etc). If Windows took this long to advance MS would have been out of the software biz long ago.

    Bottom line is "Free Software" isn't really free. I spent $2000 on MS licenses to get the hardware running, whereas I spent $3000 in man hours trying to get Linux to install on a SATA Raid controller to no avail.. so now $5000 later and I am back to running Windows with was up an running in less than 60 minutes. I freely admit I am no linux god by any means.. far far from it.. but I do have over 20 years of PC Tech/Network Admin experience and worked with plenty of OS's over the years, from the Atari 400 basic, to C64 GEOS, to Dos/DesqView/OS2/Unix/Windows.. and honestly never had as many problems as I have had with Linux installs (And my name isn't Jerry Taylor). Again, once Linux is running, it runs great.. getting to that point may drive you insane first though.
  • supervapio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good. Seems the server is down.
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