Better is the way I learned it 25 years ago. Burn up your 386sx CPU while doing a kernel build, then get a loan for a nicer computer. It should have at least 4

Better is the way I learned it 25 years ago. Burn up your 386sx CPU while doing a kernel build, then get a loan for a nicer computer. It should have at least 4 MB of ram. Spend about 200x minimum houry wage on a nice monitor, then be very careful with manual modeline settings in your xfree86 config so that you don't destroy the monitor. Get yourself a bulldog clip to hold that send book open to the page you are repeated referring to. When you graduate to Stephens' UNIX Systems Programming, the bulldog clip won't be needed. If your monitor doesn't stand tall enough, 4 reams of copy paper are much cheaper than the same thickness of X programming manuals.