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From: David Kotschessa <itzdavey@shellyeah.org>
Subject: Minix as an Educational Tool - Was: Where to start?
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If you're already a "Unix Person" you're not likely to get as much out of
it as I did. I have about 3 collective months of Unix/Linux/Minix
experience.  So to answer your question: the basics...

Minix has all the man pages you could want.  Even for applications that
(at least in my case) it doesn't natively come with.

One helpful excercise was as follows:

cd/usr/bin
ls a*

[gives direcory of all files starting with a, obviously]

whatis [first file]
man [first file]     If it seemed like something I could grasp.

I do this until I've run through the entire alphabet.  I slept pretty well
after that.

And, since it's my computer, and I'm root, I got to add users, set up mail
between users, sent mail between the users (which sadly, were all
just me) setup all the permissions, mounting file systems etc.

I'm also giving a run through on a half-decent book on scripting (one of
those Sams 24 hour books) and can run through these excercises without
tying up my phone line for my shell acount.

AND I did this all outside on a nice sunny day on my $10 laptop.  I'm
easily amused, so I thought it was cool.


-Dave

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:

> 
> In comp.os.minix on Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:41:44 GMT, 
> David Kotschessa <itzdavey@shellyeah.org> wrote 
> in <Pine.GSO.4.21.0003070829400.10997-100000@zippy.shellyeah.org>:
> 
> > play with...  Then I found out about Minix, which teaches me about
> > Unix..which exactly what I nee - to learn.  The installation process
> > itself was an education 
> 
> What have you learned from using minix ?
> 
> I'd be interested in reading some examples.
> 
> 

