Learning GNU/Linux

10 Things a new Linux user needs to unlearn: http://mostly-linux.blogspot.com/2006/06/10-things-new-linux-user-needs-to.html

Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable in Communication with Government: http://www.andwest.com/blojsom/blog/tatle/agenda/2005/06/27/Norwegian_Minister_Proprietary_Standards_No_Longer_Acceptable_in_Communication_with_Government.html

What your choice of Linux distribution says about you: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/1322227

Linux-Genealogy List: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LINUX-GENEALOGY.html

LinuxChix: http://www.linuxchix.org, irc://irc.linuxchix/linuxchix

GNU Project: http://www.gnu.org/home.html

Linux Documentation Project: http://www.tldp.org/
   How-Tos, Guides, FAQs, Manuals, Linux Gazette

Cheap Bytes: http://cart.cheapbytes.com/

Google for Linux stuff: http://www.google.com/linux

Looking for an equivalent to a Windows program you miss? Table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux: http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml

Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands: http://www.onlamp.com/linux/cmd/

I'm getting involved beyond Linuxchix, in Ubuntu-Women, and the Washington LoCo. Here's my Ubuntu User badge:

I'm also part of the Amarok team, getting a new User Handbook together. I love Amarok! Best music player out there.

  Register yourself and be counted!

By the way, Genealogy.net lists about 20 genealogy programs for Linux here: http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/software/non_ms/linux.html

Humor - Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux out of the box: http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/03/16/1915249.shtml?tid=149


To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.- Joseph Chilton Pearce

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