What are some of the best Linux tutorials out there? I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag, but I have been working (for some months now) on a course aimed at getting your Linux certification (200ish level). After getting about 60% of the way into that course, it seemed to me that it probably makes sense to do a lower-level course first. I’ve got a pretty good start on that, but for the intro I wanted to point out other resources around the net that are good. Really good.
I was going to mention TLDR pages, it is quickly becoming a great resource:
https://tldr.sh/
… but I wish that I had that many years ago!
For certification, they focus mainly on RedHat, Debian and openSUSE. It has been a bit tough for me to structure material for students with three distros at once (well, three distros in one course).
The 100-level pre-cert course I’m working on is just installation, grep, find, sed, awk, vi, emacs, less, more, shell scripting, print jobs, man pages, the command interpreter, terminology, navigation, philosophy, gnu, rms, some books, etc.
200-level is… more advanced stuff for the three distros.
Why does the world need another intro to linux? Doing some work with college students where they are expected to have done online tutorials, there are significant gaps and misunderstandings. Also, a lot of the information out there seems to be ‘hobbyist’ oriented less than business oriented. I myself am not a big believer in certifications but I think I can fairly easily put together a comprehensive pair of courses on the order of 40 hours of content that would let me share years of hard-won experience. Plus I figure the community would want to contribute as I will no doubt have gaps and misunderstandings of my own.
Links to awesome linux tutorials that really helped you grok it when you were starting out?