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- SimonGray, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Because it can be done using the command line, it obviously means that there's no other way to do it....
*insert more dots* - Dihuko, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Very helpful.
- jerlensla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I mostly agree with you, but no GUI in the world is going to make some laymen understand some basic OS concepts.
- jsmucker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Nice cheat sheet to give to some of my techs.
- HolyChimp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The majority of people that were handed the CD probably wouldn't be able to install it, and if they did manage it then a missing driver would totally stump them (not saying a missing driver is guaranteed). Then they'd complain that all their documents were gone and that all their Windows games and apps didn't work.
For linux to jump into the home market it needs to be preinstalled on the machine before they buy it. - falloutsyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Helpful, but its been on digg a few times now. And in response to kolop1, linux will takeoff in the home market once it gets better known. If they started handing out Ubuntu cd's at convience stores, and it said "no viruses or spyware works on your pc!" people would be more attracted to it. Not to mention they need to get the word out, IBM will help, not to mention the recent ubuntu billboards that are floating around. It's just a matter of time. I gave a presentation on linux for school, the class was only 20 people, and 16 of them came to me for a copy. When I explained how it was more secure than windows, yet had all the functionality, most of them became very interested. This was in an English class no less, most of the people in there didn't even know what linux was until I had shown it to them.
- monkeycool, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@CharlesDarwin: What is wrong with you dude? I have yet to see a post from you that hasn't been dugg down. This is a great resource for newbs, so go ***** a brick, retard!
- ChoKoth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I'm really...really...REALLY tired of comments like the ones in the Parent. I've been an on again off again (mostly off again) Linux user for 10 years, I've had to re-learn how to use it more than once, and let me tell you. I'll take learning to use Linux over trying to figure out windows any day.
How many "normal" windows users ever even LOOK at the command prompt...why would they want to in Linux? Xandros allows even the most inexperienced user to point and click their way to a hard drive full of applications in seconds. Knoppix lets you do it without ever actually putting anything on your drive. I PRAY for the day that windows becomes as easy to use and robust as either of the above mentioned, until then I really wish folks would actually use the applications they want to bash, before they bash them. - rewritable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I like the quick math command
echo '(1 + sqrt(5))/2' | bc -l
There isnt anything quick about that. - pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Note the css will remove the left navigation bar for printing.
(try print preview). Any other suggestions for printing?
(Note I haven't printed anything in about 8 years). - Snakey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yes it is, but it would have been more usefull if it was ready to be printed, so I can print a sheet. ah well, it's usefull so I'll copy it and change it a bit to my needs so I can print it.
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Most Linux users don't know this, but the man pages are named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fscking hates noobs!
- slackerhobo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Awk sed and grep are complicated enough to need their own cheetsheet lol (or book Unix Shells by example has been a great book for me)
- Snakey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Idd, when printing, the sidebar doesn't print out, but I'm making it shorter one for me, because 6 pages isn't really good to use for a fast sneak peek at the commands, commands I certainly know are being wiped out :p
I hope one day, my cheat sheet is going to be empty :p
(which means, I know the commands ) - tommis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Quick googling showed some other good collections of info for those who need it:
Very nice looking collection:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~jbattat/computer/linuxReferenceCard.pdf
List of commands, with links to more detailed description
http://www.perpetualpc.net/srtd_commands_rev.html
More:
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+command+reference+filetype%3Apdf - migla, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Check out KDE and Gnome.
- tommis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The linuxReferenceCard.pdf above is O'Reillys quick reference card, which is also available here:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/excerpt/LinuxPG_quickref/linux.pdf
and they also have a comprehensive listing of commands with help included:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/ - gwildor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You cant compare the speed of a 'Current' OS, with the speed of a 8yr old OS, on 8yr old hardware.
Install windows XP on that box, and compare it to ubuntu. - carcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is all fine and good but what I find lacking sometimes are helpers on installing packages. A few of the commands listed aren't even defaulted in most linux distros. I find that instead of wanting to know how to run a command and it's syntax a lot of people are clueless on how to use a specific package manager or how to build from source. I know it's off topic but I wish there was more of that out there. For *****'s sake it didn't even list man! One of the most useful tools for a unix/linux n00b!!!
- benplaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you're really that unlucky, then you might want to try another distro. SuSE is my recommendation (second to ubuntu).
Secondly, i don't understand why everyone thinks the command line is so arcane. Sure, it has a higher learning curve than the GUIs many have been brought up on, but _damn_ is it powerful!
I grew up on a TRS-80, so i guess i'm biased, but i can do things waaaay faster on a shell than through an 'arcane gui.'
Newer isn't always better... - grungyhamster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's so ***** jumbled and doesn't follow any well-known conventions when describing the format of a command (eg. "command -options" then having a list of options after it).
I would suggest if you don't have a bash variant already with man pages, then this would suffice:
http://manpage.willempen.org/about/
It's a convenient search bar for man pages in firefox where the google search bar is. - pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is a wget command there for saving the page and any requisites.
Would that not do as a local reference. Note the single HTML file
is all that's really required unless you want the orange colours etc.
If you want a printed copy, note the CSS automatically
removes the bar on the left (try print preview).
You could possible install one of those pdf printer drivers
and create it yourself? - pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Well linux does have a comparable GUI to windows.
Linux gives you the best of both worlds.
A general base with commands and scripting,
and a GUI for more specific/common tasks.
Note I say general as opposed to complicated.
Personally I find the GUI more complicated as
there are many more programs and interfaces to learn. - elbaso, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4This is pretty cool. Since I'm on Windows, I'll be using this for Cygwin.
- gruvsf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@airjrdn
you are comparing an eight-year old OS to a new one? I'm sure that if I ran Dos 5.0 on that same computer, I'd be able to do things much faster than your Windows 98... - slackerhobo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Actually fairly good I normally don't go for the "Cheetsheet" articles because they tend to be just a listing of "cp" or "mkdir". this one has some use full ones that I always have to man to re-figure out
- lbermude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Cygwin kicks ass!.
I used to have a linux box with xp in vmware at work but they took it away :(. Now i am in an xp only box and use cygwin to rsh to the linux boxes and run full 3D software with a remote X session!. I hate that exceed thing, xterms never work right with it. oh.. and cygwin is free. - brad3378, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe you can try taking a screen capure & make it your wallpaper ?
- Obsidian743, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I do just fine with the "standard" commands with a few well placed greps and sorts. After reading that I truly realize that aliases are your friend.
- pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a HOWTO or cheatsheet or recipies or whatever you want to call it.
It is not a reference. References are already on the net or come with linux.
I'll consider any suggestions for a better organisation. - pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The following is actually referenced from the page:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/packaging.html
Who doesn't know about man?
If they don't then this is not the sheet for them (yet).
BTW here are keyboard shortcuts for man and info:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/lkdb/less.html
http://www.pixelbeat.org/lkdb/info.html - benplaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i've got an entire book on sed and awk...
seriously - Snakey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great, but I think you should have left the url to the original author.
- xenuxenuts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1for printing, changing the style to the following made it very readable:
.pixelbeat {
width: 100%;
}
.pixelbeat td {
border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
padding: 3px;
} - th3wiz4rd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If I had a penny for every blank stare after trying to explain "chmod -R 777 /FolderName" I'd have at least 1 billion dollars...
"7 is 111 in binary -- read write ex..."
"?? ? ? huh ? ? ??"
"God damn it. Just type what I tell you and forget about it." :( - basselope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or this one, in many languages:
http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/
english pdf direct - ready to print and fold
http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/refcard-en-a4.pdf - th3wiz4rd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, this is a late comment- nobody will read it (oh well)...
very nice. definitely not for noobs though. I'm still trying to teach my techs how to use the basics :( cd/chmod/chown/mkdir/rm
... As I was typing this I just realized how pathetic my help is.. no wonder I get no sleep :( - benplaut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3if you don't fsck every once in a while, you'll get corruption.
So f*ck off, yourself. - orionhumanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the following link offers common usefull linux commands and you can print it:
http://www.planetarywebsites.com/Articles/Linux_Guide/Basic_Linux_Commands.html - goglobalwebs, on 05/12/2009, -0/+0Thanks for being so helpful! Digg is great cause it promotes sharing, it's great stuff.
- demitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.ugu.com is decent as well for many levels of SA's for more indepth stuff.
- sierraslidr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@airjrdn::
Your problem with that machine you loaded Ubuntu on you stated well yourself "OLD". On something like that, scrape up a copy of QNX 6.1 and install it. It will make a 300MHz machine way faster than a 1.5GHz running Win98 etc., is POSIX compliant, and you can tell it to be compatible with Linux on install and add many of hte Linux programs later when/if you want. Some of the internal shell commands are different from some linux ones, but mostly it's the same. :-) - lbermude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1gawk rocks for simple tasks processing file line by line, and it is needed. For more complicated stuff go to python.
- pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I communicate with everyone via a system of pokes and jabs. It works great, and it's so discoverable!
- ChewMyFootOff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tried SUSE as well, got a number of other problems. Don't get me wrong, I really really want to ditch Windows and start using Linux. But instead of being able to start using the Linux for work and fun, I found myself spending hours and hours in Linux documentations, forums, HowTo, etc. Each problem took painstakingly amount of effort and time to solve.
- pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Peronsally I find awk sits between shell and python and so is not needed
- anfo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://minihan.net/~ryan/CmdlineRef.pdf
Until or unless the original author asks me to take it down. - Patented, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@kolop1
Everyone that has read this thread, is now less intelligent than they were before reading it, thanks to your comment.
Other than my sentiment above, there aren't many replies to your thread so far that I disagree with. That cheatsheet mostly outlined administrative tasks that are either: A. Automated by GUI, or B: Solely adminstrative/programming tasks. When is the last time you had to walk a basic user through MSDOS commands? - gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No awk :(
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