Tip: Ditch Yoper
its ok, and fast, but a bit slim for my tastes - its default install is missing alot of things and its apt-get system leaves a little to be desired. All that said it is a good distro.
My advice - if you want to learn all there is to learn about linux, start with a user friendly linux like mandravia or ubuntu, use it for a few months. once you get the hang of how its filesystem and other OS aspects works start expirementing with other distro\'s. Eventual try either Gentoo or Linux from scratch - you\'ll learn tons about linux and how it is structured from the installation of those distro\'s. Neat thing about linux is that you learn more about it in a shorter period of time than you ever will understand about windows other than point and click! For a person comming from windows its hard to get the conecpt of No C Drive, A Drive, D drive, etc... no drive letters at all! And mounting too - a cool but different concept from what windows users expirence. Mounting is the concept of opening a filesystem. Windows mounts CD drives when you put it in the drive, then maps a drive letter to that point. Most linuxes automount as well, but the drive would be mapped to a directory. i.e. /media/cdrom1 As a windows user you could envision / as C: except that there are no other drives. Other drives can be mounted anywhere in the filesystem. For instance I have my spare 160 gig drive mounted at /mnt/data - everything in the data directory is actually on that hard drive. Thus you can have an unlimited number of drives mounted in a variety of places.
Another concept is home directories. Each user has a directory with his/her username in the /home directory mine is /home/brant the neat thing is that you could theoretically give each userer their own hard drive or hard drive partition for their home directory. In a home directory you have full privlidges, and all your personal settings are stored there.
Hidden directories - if you make a directory start with a . i.e. .wine or .cxoffice it becomes a hidden directory that file managers ignore. They can be revealed using ls -a from the command line
Command line equivilants:
WIndows - Linux
copy - cp
move - mv
del - rm
deltree - rm -r
view - cat
dir - ls
cls - clear
cd - cd
cd .. - cd ..
another story is user permissions but thats a story for a different chapter as I\'m heading to a movie
