Date   : Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:14:32
From   : anders.carlsson@... (Anders Carlsson)
Subject: [BeebSoc] A book recommendation, please.

I am far from a Debian Linux expert and have no books to recommend. However 
I can try to answer a few of your questions.

The suffixes on the rc scripts relate to different run levels: maintenance, 
single user, multi user and so on. The system will execute those rc files 
belonging to the current run level.

sbin directories are meant for system/administrative binaries, but I think 
functionally it doesn't matter. It is just a semantic (?) way to keep 
programs apart, and in a multi user environment the paths may differ 
depending on which programs one should have access to. The /usr/sbin 
suggests those are system binaries meant for users unlike /sbin which would 
be more about the system itself.

The so suffix means shared object, simply a library. You may see numbers 
after so which indicates the library version. Without looking it up, I think 
ko means kernel object, but I could be wrong on this.

Good luck in your search for knowledge. As far as regular Debian knowledge 
goes, you should be able to find a lot of info on the Internet but I see 
your point about getting to know the recorder in particular.

Best regards

-- 
Anders Carlsson