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Getting Started with Linux - Lesson 1

Getting Started with Linux

We have developed this course for one basic reason: To bring the newcomer to Linux to the point where you can, using Linux, do everything that you do with MS Windows and much more. Due to the fact that Microsoft, enjoying an illegal monopoly, has its operating system installed on 90% of the world's computers, this course is mainly aimed at people who want to migrate to Linux from Microsoft products.

The simple fact that you are getting this course off the Internet presupposes that you know how to use a PC. The course should be oriented towards people migrating from other OSes and in particular, MS Windows 9x, ME, 2000 and XP.

Our objectives are:

To explain the differences between working with Linux and working with other popular OSes.
To stress that the somewhat steeper learning curve in Linux will pay back in the amount of stability and flexibility.
To show that using Linux opens up a whole new world of computing. This means that a Linux user is not just a passive subject reacting to what the OS allows him/her to do but he/she is an active "developer" with complete control over the operating system.

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