On Thu, 05 Mar 2020 09:10:13 +1300, Ian Segers wrote:

> okay, I get a "Linux for Dummies" and study it.
>
Good move.

An advance warning - its unlikely that book will say anything about
Raspbian, so just remember that Raspbian is essentially just Debian Linux
recompiled and tweaked to run on an RPi, so anything it says that is
Debian-specific should apply to Raspbian.

Try to get the latest version of "Linux for Dummies" because things have
changed fairly recently in the way that a Linux system boots up and
starts or stops server processes like mystic. The old way was called
'sysVinit' while the new one is called systemd, so if possible you want a
book that talks about systemd.

Some information sources you may find useful, though you should get
comfortable with the way Linux works and the way it is documented before
tackling them:

http://www.debian.org/

This is the home website for Debian and its clones such as Raspbian.
There's a lot of good info there, but the mother lode is:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/

This contains everything you'll ever need to know about Debian Linux.
There's a lot in it, but its fairly readable and well laid out.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/

This will be very useful if you want to build a systemd service to start,
stop and generally manage mystic, though probably too detailed if you
just want to know how to use systemd to manage start, stop or monitor
programs and services running on your RPi.


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