Linux: 2019 Brief Beginners' Guide to the Linux Operating System & Command Line

by Jean Harrington

What have you heard about Linux?
I think many beginners and even experienced computer users have not heard about this operating system. It is both a simple and affordable, but at the same time, an unusual and complex operating system.
To start using Linux, just select the distribution that suits you, install and configure it. But іt is not always easy, because there are a great many distributions, and they do not suit every kind of hardware. There is no one specific distribution that will satisfy the needs of each user; usually, they are very specialized.


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43 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 7, 2019

About the author

Writing has me hooked though the realization was a long time coming. As a child I wanted to be a foreign correspondent when I grew up. I must have been a romantic even then, but reality set in and instead I went to the exotic University of Rhode Island for a degree in English literature and stayed on as a teaching assistant while I earned my master’s degree.
In the meantime, I had married John (he loves it when I give my heroes his name), and we have two grown children, Mary Lee and Chris, and three granddaughters, Amy, Laura and Carolyn.
Following URI and a stint writing PR and advertising copy, I taught writing and lit for sixteen years at Becker College in Worcester, Massachusetts. I enjoyed this period of my life tremendously, but when I think back, I realize that always simmering on the back burner of my brain was the old adage, “Those who can do; those who can’t teach.”
Not necessarily true, but after I raised my children, left Becker and moved to Florida with Big John, the gig was up. I began to write, and write, and write, and, well, you get the picture . . . .
My debut novel tells the tale of the captivating, defiant Grace O’Malley, THE BAREFOOT QUEEN, who risks everything she loves for a vow she holds dearer than life itself.

Reviews

[Mjhancock · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is possibly the most difficult thing I've read in quite some time. And considering that my reading record for the last year contains a lot of rather heavy philosophy, that's really saying something. Lechte divides this book into two parts: the first half is a history of the Western image, as a concept and an object, and everything else it's been considered as over the past two thousand years. The second half applies this consideration to modern image issues, particularly the notion of digital art. On that subject, Lechte argues that, currently, digital art treats aesthetics as equivalent to the experimental method that lead to its creation, but, in accordance with a better definition of the image, he thinks that it is necessary to redefine aesthetics closer to its transcendental roots. (I think. As I said, it's a rather difficult book.) The early chapters are divided largely into periods: the Image in Plato and the Greek World, the Byzantine Image, the Renaissance Image, Image in 18th century, and the 19th century and early 20th century industrial image. The second part is a little more varied, with chapters on modern conceptions of the image in general (mostly Sartre and Crowther), Barthes and Benjamin on the photographic image and time (with a heavy backing from Bernard Stiegler), a chapter on beauty in digital art and Kant and Nietzche, and a final chapter briefly considering Deleuze's stance on the time-image. It covers a lot of rather obtuse theory; in addition to those I've mentioned, there's also Aristotle, Derrida, Kristeva, Hume, Diderot, Rousseau, Lacan, Mark Hansen, Foucault... the book really assumes you have a lot of knowledge going into it. I generally knew a little about everyone, but I was still rather lost at times. It could definitely use some expansion, just to give its arguments a little more breathing room.