On Sunday 16 April 2006 08:01, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I am moving into a post newbie stage of my Linux experience and I would > like to find a friendly mailing list that will happily handle Linux > kernel, my operating system questions and an occasional 'C' question. > Some questions would be fairly deep others would reveal me as a newbie. > > For example; > > How does my BIOS at boot time know where other BIOSes like my video BIOS > are? > > What in addressing distinguishes a main memory location from a video > memory location? How are the various registers in the CPU, my Intel > Memory Controller Hub, my Intel I/O Controller Hub distinguished by the > CPU? > > How does BASH work? (I don't mean how do I use the command line; I mean > that in the same way that I can read manuals on how gcc analyzes, > parses, links and assembles binary executables, how does an interpreter > work (a shell) work?) > > etc. ... > > Please I am not asking for answers to the above example questions here. > > I am asking, has anyone on this Fedora list had a good experience with a > list that helped newbies move to being a guru? A newru, or perhaps a > gubie, list? > > All suggestions of such lists you might have will be tried. > > Regards Bill Since I see you've had some rather sarcastic responses, try these tips. Google for "Power On Self Test " Buy (or beg, borrow or get from library) copies of some of the basics books like PC Bible, MS & PC DOS manuals, etc. Look at the how-tos on the web (www.tldp.org/HOWTO) Almost forgot. Find a linus users group near you and go to their meetings, asking questions of old timers. HTH, Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA
