A whole lot of linking to Greg Laden for some reason

Here’s Greg’s most recent posts about Linux, because you all need to learn this stuff and how useful it is if you ever hope to be cooler than Grandma with her desktop icons and “start” button.

Concepts:
Cat – for outputting files’ contents and other such manipulation
Cups – the print spooler that, unlike in Windows, you can actually configure!
cut, sort, and other great tools for processing CSVs or text files
How closed-source software is like CHILD ABUSE (plus a real-life, really-happened, story about how Microsoft embarassed me at work!)
How to escalate privileges using su and sudo

He’s got a lot of other great newbie tutorials hidden in amongst the politics and flame wars, so go check it out. The Congo Memoirs are a great read, as well. (And yeah, I’m involved in that flame war now. And worse, I don’t think I’ll have the stamina to beat this asshole, either.)

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A whole lot of linking to Greg Laden for some reason
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