[colug-432] Looking for a Linux-based time-keeping application

Scott Merrill skippy at skippy.net
Fri Feb 25 13:32:23 EST 2011


If you're looking for more introductory information about Linux, you
might peruse some of these resources, in no particular order:

http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/windowstolinux.shtml
http://library.gnome.org/users/
http://ubuntu-manual.org/

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote:
> First off: do you need to be doing this from the command line? The
> graphical user interface in modern Linux distributions is very robust.
> The graphical file browsers work very nicely, and you should have
> little trouble using the graphical file browser of your distribution
> if you have any experience with Windows Explorer.
>
> This might be a good place to start if you want more information about
> the Linux filesystem:
>   http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net> wrote:
>> No offense taken and you are quite correct. I just want some training
>> wheels. I don't wear them long but
>>
>> ls /?
>>
>> brings up page after page after page of stuff and it'll take me an hour to
>> figure out how to do
>>
>> dir /s -shra
>>
>> just to find one little file to get beyond the problem of the moment.
>>
>> For CD\ I'm frustrated because I'm in my home directory and
>>
>> cd ../../System/Settings
>>
>> doesn't take me to
>>
>> /System/Settings
>>
>> Instead I have to
>>
>> cd ..
>> cd ..
>> cd /System/Settings (or maybe it was cd System/Settings
>>
>> It's real basic syntax that needs to be releared but in the nonce I want to
>> get schtuff done.........
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>> I'm truly not trying to be a linux "snob" or whatever, but you're much
>> better off imho learning the *NIX version of the commands.  You can put
>> an alias file on your system, but you're going to end up teaching
>> yourself for example, the command "dir" instead of ls, which will make it
>> harder to actually learn the right commands....
>>
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