What is a ‘Hands-on How-to’?
Any current Linux distribution includes a “doc” directory and under that, a directory full of files whose names all end with “HOWTO”. Each of those files is an exhaustive (and exhausting!) treatment of one subject area — “how to install an IDE disk drive;” “how to install a SCSI CD-ROM;” “how to install… every known form of networking?!”
You might begin to see a problem with this approach; some topics are bigger than others. Adequately covering the entire topic of networking in a single document is just not possible.
Of course, that won’t keep me from trying….
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