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>1. Introduction</H1
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>1.1. Purpose of this document</H2
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>This document is intended to help Linux and Internet users who are
learning by doing. While this is a great way to acquire specific skills,
sometimes it leaves peculiar gaps in one's knowledge of the basics &#8212; gaps
which can make it hard to think creatively or troubleshoot effectively,
from lack of a good mental model of what is really going on.</P
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>I'll try to describe in clear, simple language how it all works. The
presentation will be tuned for people using Unix or Linux on PC-class
machines. Nevertheless, I'll usually refer simply to &#8216;Unix&#8217;
here, as most of what I will describe is constant across different machines
and across Unix variants.</P
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>I'm going to assume you're using an Intel PC. The details differ
slightly if you're running an PowerPC or some other kind of computer, but
the basic concepts are the same.</P
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>I won't repeat things, so you'll have to pay attention, but that
also means you'll learn from every word you read. It's a good idea to just
skim when you first read this; you should come back and reread it a few
times after you've digested what you have learned.</P
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>If you have questions or comments about this document, please feel
free to mail Eric S. Raymond, at <A
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especially welcome hyperlinks to more detailed explanations of individual
concepts. If you find a mistake with this document, please let me know so
I can correct it in the next version. Thanks.</P
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>If you're reading this in order to learn how to hack, you should also
read the <A
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