On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 10:07:13PM -0400, JeremyBekka C wrote:

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> I know that I have a lot to learn, especially after reading the technical
> posts here about the development of Devuan, but I am motivated and want to
> learn. There is so much out there to read that I am overwhelmed sometimes
> and don't really know where to start. There are so many man pages that I
> really don't know which ones are the most important ones to read first. So,
> I am wondering if I could get some tips on what I need to learn and how I
> can go about getting the proper training to be of service here in the
> Devuan community. I would like to be able to help detect and fix bugs, and
> maybe become a package manager someday.
>
>

Welcome Jeremy,

as other have already said, there is probably no standard recipe to
get there :) IMHO, the manpages that you must to read first are those
of the programs that you need right now, the programming language to
learn first is the one that you need right now, the tools to use first
are those that you need right now, and so on. That's because studying
something that you need or would very much like to know is much easier
than just reading anything at random.

Having said that, if you don't feel a compulsive need to know anything
in particular, then you should probably start from the core utils:

$ info coreutils

and when you have gone through them you can start wandering at random,
e.g.:

$ man `ls /bin /sbin | shuf | head -1`

and when you are done with those, try:

$ man `ls /usr/bin /usr/sbin | shuf | head -1`

But remember: manpages are there to be read when you need them, not to
be memorised :)

Concerning programming languages, I agree that C should be the first
choice, together with shell scripting and then one of either Perl or
Python. But again, if you can't find a way of using them, or you don't
feel the need to use them for something in particular, then you will
just learn and forget almost everything.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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