Dr. Bob's Low Fat Linux website is a free course for learning Linux, a version of Unix that runs on ordinary personal computers. I created it for people who want to learn the basics of using Linux, and thereby Unix, without getting bogged down in too much detail or technobabble.

For those of you wishing to become competent at the command line in Linux, this is a good value book that has plenty of 'recipes' that will teach you the basics of a wide range of command line tools and how to combine them to grea

Installing the free operating system, Linux, is now a piece of cake for Windows users. Wubi is a Windows install of Linux, that literally takes a couple of clicks to install and little or no configuration!

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