🚀 go-pugleaf

Greetings!
    Let me introduce myself, I am felix. I am _totally_ new to not
just linux but computers in general. I have had a 'pooter for the last
....two years, and in all that time was restricted to the limitations
windows puts on me. This is because , like many users, I started with
the program that came with my setup. Windows is _great_ for someone
who knows _nothing_ of computers. It is all point and click
accessable. But like anyone who uses a computer for a while, I have
come to realise that windows is not the be all and end all of my
possibilities. Now I want more. Since I got on the net, I have
realised this and found Linux. I am in the process of browsing Linux
ng's for a grounding in the unfamiliar world of Linux. It is
................most enlightening.
    One 'problem' I have encountered is strong, complete definitions
of terms. If I post a list of terms I have heard in the ng's and ask
for explanations, I get many replies { the linux community is
amazingly tolerant of newbies, and help most unselfishly!} but the
common thread running through them is that each explanation is
slightly different to the next. While I realise that some of the
answers I get are subject specific, some definitions seem to vary from
application to application, even from distribution to distribution.
Again, I realise that each distribution may focus on different
capabilities of applications.
     What I want to know is this: Is there a book, magazine, netsite
or whatever that lists in dictionary form properties and definitions
of Linux?
thank you
felix
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My beast of burden.                              Am trying out the
following
Cyric p120                                            Forte' Agent
24MB SIMMS RAM                               Opera Browser
1.3GB Voice coil HDD                            Both working well and
I highly
PCI enhanced IDE&IO controller             reccomend them as
alternatives
KTX  14" SVGA Monitor                         to IE and OE   :)
1 MB PCI SVGA video accelerator
20x IDE CD-ROM drive
Sound Blaster Vibra 16 sound card
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