It can be said in life that there is no such thing as a “free lunch” , “you get what you pay for “  and “nothing is for nothing”.  Yet in the world of Linux its often free of charge or fair “beggarware”.  If you cannot get it for “free”  there are usually tons of places on the internet where you can get it at least for less expense.  Still its always fair , that if you feel that you got very new value to make a paypal donation.

Still here is the additional list for novice beginning Linux users to peruse:

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3 Resources for Free Linux Books Online – LinuxHaxor has a good post up on Linux eBooks for beginners. It provides links to 10 free books, some in HTML format and some available as PDFs. In some cases, the books are also available for sale, but the authors have chosen to offer …

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Cods Plaice: 10 Free Linux Ebooks – 10 Free Linux Ebooks. The guys over at LinuxHaxor have put together a great list of free ebooks for Linux. Now I have not read all of them, but at least three of these books I have read, and they are of good quality and offer something …

10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners – This is the first part of the series, in the near future we will have a list for “Intermediate and Advanced Linux Users” and “Linux System Administrators”. If you have any suggestions feel free to share them with us in the comments. …

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Its an interesting concern and viewpoint – seeing Linux only from a marketing and profit version – almost as if it Coca Cola vs Pepsi or the pharmaceutical industry.  What drives linux , its evoltion and immovatons ,  product development is users . The Red Hat Linux companyay derive most of its dollars from server side sales and support.  Yet it akin to the automotive industry – that if there are not entry level models for users and buyers to become familiar then they are going to start , grow and stay with another product.

The desktop versions of Linux serve that purpose.  After all how many computer users have a physical commercial server at their beck and call with which to learn and become famuliar with the Linux Operating System , only as a server utilization.

Linux has achieved success on servers, but can it make a go of it on the desktop? Panelists at a technical conference Tuesday evening debated the question, with a Red Hat official wondering whether the issue is even relevant anymore.

Representatives from organizations such as Red Hat, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and Fidelity Information Services offered perspectives on Linux and open source on the desktop during a session at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco. The session was entitled “End Users and Linux: Do We Have a Participation Problem?”.

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Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst pointed out several issues with running Linux on the desktop, including financial concerns the company has as a Linux vendor.

“First of all, I don’t know how to make money on it,” Whitehurst said. “Very few people are running a desktop that’s mission-critical,” so they do not want to pay the company for a desktop OS, he said.

There is some money in the Linux desktop, but not much, Whitehurst said. “We do have a desktop [version of Linux], but we typically sell it to big server customers who want some desktops.” Red Hat offers its Red Hat Enterprise Desktop product, but Whitehurst added he was uncertain how relevant the desktop itself will be in five years, with the advent of concepts such as cloud-based and smartphone computing and VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure).

“The concept of a desktop is kind of ridiculous in this day and age,” said Whitehurst. “I’d rather think about skating to where the puck is gong to be than where it is now,” he said, using a hockey analogy.

Interoperability issues also are a hindrance, according to Whitehurst. “There’s a reason Microsoft doesn’t want to certify Evolution [a Linux mail client] hooking into [Microsoft's mail server] Exchange,” he said. Microsoft has key control points locked up on the desktop, he said,

“There’s a desire [to use desktop Linux] but practicality sets in,” said panelist Vinod Kutty, associate director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. “There are significant barriers to switching.”

Even Linux developers he has known prefer a Macintosh to a Linux desktop, Kutty said.

Another panelist, Timothy Golden, senior vice president for Unix engineering, security, and provisioning at Bank of America, concurred with Whitehurst. “I have to agree with Jim on this one,” he said. How people view the desktop is going to change, said Whitehurst.

But another panelist, K.S. Bhaskar, senior vice president of Fidelity Information Services, gave a thumbs-up to Linux on the desktop, adding that his family even uses it at home.

“I kicked the Windows habit 10 years ago,” Bhaskar said. “In the group that I have at work, Linux is our primary desktop that we’ve been using since 2000,” he said.

An industry analyst in the audience agreed with the panel’s skepticism toward desktop Linux. “I think they’re right, there are barriers to adoption,” said analyst Tim Clark, partner at The FactPoint Group.

Earlier in the day, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian was optimistic about Linux on the desktop, particularly on netbooks.

Panelists also discussed topics such as whether the economic downturn was good for open source. The downturn has benefitted open source because it gets people to try new things, Whitehurst said. Many new projects are getting done on Linux, he said.

Prior to the panel session, Whitehurst gave a speech proclaiming the economic situation as a “fantastic time for open source.”

“I almost feel bad,” because open source software proponents profit from other people’s misery,” Whitehurst said. In tough economic times, “people get out of their comfort zone,” he said. Companies that would never have considered open source are now looking at Red Hat, said Whitehurst. He added a significant chunk of Red Hat’s revenue has come from Unix to Linux conversions.

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and search for “Linux help” , “Linux tech support”  or Linux help .  One of the very good points of using Google as  a search engine is that even if you type into the Google search box your exact problem or problems – for example – how big a swap file do i need when installing Linux  – or even how do i learn how to use Linux ?  , there inevitably will be someone , somewhere on Google who asked the same exact question and who hopefully was given an answer or answers which hopefully will be of direct help to you with your problem , problems and concerns.

When you run into difficulties with Linux – run that search.  You will find an astonishing amount of useful material and information on the web.  This will include links to bulletin boards and mailing lists where people and other Linux users are asking , answering and have provided questions and relevant answers towards the kinds of problems have on a day-to-day basis.

Next – remember as well to search for Linux in your newsreader and also in RSS feed posts and visit any Linux newsgroups that you come across in your travels , readings and websites that you come across in your internet searches and travels.

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It is true that a GUI allows for easier and simpler functionality  allowing many computer users who wish to learn Linux and use it , any addition to the user interface obviously adds a level of complexity and perhaps ( actually in most cases ) reduced functionality and power.  Its always a trade off – this for that.  It is true that adding the GUI allows many computer users who would never learn or be able to function in Linux the availability and privilege to do so with ease.

Advanced Linux users are able to do and complete many complex , advanced and most powerful features and functionality that the Linux OS offers.  However if not typed in perfectly and in absolute correct typing ,syntax and grammar the system will stuck dead in its tracks allowing the computer user to do nothing – other than being exceptionally and extremely frustrated.  Command line Linux offers great power and functionality – that is for those computer users who are most knowledgeable and proficient in its use.

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