Resource Help

[john w]

 I installed Debian 2.2 potato the other day and aside from the 
seemingly endless number of includeed packages have not any problems. I 
would like to ask about any information related to using apt and dselect 
as the man pages are not quite explicit enough. I am not a programmer by 
no means so some of the tags just seem greek to me. I also have talked 
to a few people and read some reviews and seems the most commonnly 
suggested Linux guides are Running Linux and Linux in a Nutshell 
(O'reilley) followeed by Linux Problem Solver by Brian ward. I would 
appreciate any input on the subjects. I am really trying not to abuse 
the priviledge of posting here as I really don't have a lot to offer in 
the way of problem solving just trying to get away from windows...Fast!!
Thanks again,
John