Linux - Links for Beginners
Notes and Links compiled by Ruth Shanen
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- Casandra's List
- a directory of LUGs in and near New York City
- http://home.netcom.com/~casandra/linux/lugdetails.html
- GLUE - a directory of Linux User Groups maintained by SSC.
- http://www.ssc.com/glue
- LUGR - Linux.org user group directory
- http://www.linux.org/groups/index.html
- Linux Links: User Groups page
- http://www.linuxlinks.com/UserGroups/
- LinuxHQ : user groups page
- http://www.linuxhq.com/users/
- Linux Users' Groups Webring
- http://nlug.org/webring/
You can also try the c.o.l.a. newsgroup; postings marked "LOCAL:" are usually announcements of local LUG meetings.
- Intro to Unix, vi editor, and emacs editor.
- http://lifelong.freeservers.com
(look under "courses" for "UNIX")
a very popular course by a New Zealand University Professor
a personal recommendation - casandra - Basic Linux Training
- http://www.basiclinux.net
an on-line course that includes 40 lessons sent via email (2 per week) and chat sesssions with other students and on-line tutorial by Henry White with email support by the author - course is free but registration is required for access to the material - UGU - Unix Guru Universe - Tutorials for Unix Beginners
- http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?help.beginners
links to on-line unix tutorials; most of the material applies to Linux - LNAG - Linux Newbie Administrator Guide
- a really nice guide for ordinary Newbies
Master copy: http://sunsite.auc.dk/linux-newbie/ (Denmark, Europe)
Mirror: http://www.linsup.com/newbie/ (Australia)
IBM, RedHat, and many professional training companies are also offering Linux and Linux-related courses. Check the web for listings.
Some Linux User Groups are running Study Groups - ask at yours.
Index of past articles is online.
Back issues are available on CD-ROM.
See http://www.linuxjournalstore.com for details.
Monthly, free, entirely on-line. All back issues are on-line
and are also available for quick download in gzipped form.
NOTE: the suffix is .net and NOT .com
From Great Britain; Magazine is expensive but worth it.
In depth, well written articles ranging from beginner-level
to techie-level topics. Includes code samples, software
releases, and demos on included CD.
Available at the bigger bookstores, or subscribe online.
Available at some US bookstores or by subscription.
Ezine. Very current coverage of software releases, public events,
and business news in the Linux world.
Ezine. Techie oriented, highly-regarded.
Ezine. More about the Linux business world, little about the actual software.
E-zine. Technical articles written in a user-friendly style
and in several international languages
Monthly on newstands or by subscription.
Few technical articles. Good
coverage of open-source philosophy and business practice. Interviews
with Open-Source community leaders.
"Computer Book Works"
- This shop, located at 78 Reade Street, Manhattan, has a large
selection both in the shop and online, and often had books
at a good discount.
- http://www.123computerbooks.com - website being updated
There are now far too many
books to list here and new books are being published constantly.
To get your feet wet, either
"Linux for Dummies" (edition 1 or 2)
or "Unix for Dummies, vol 1 and 2"
are good ways to learn the basic concepts and jargon.
Once you are comfortable
with Unix concepts, there are books appropriate to every level of
knowledge and experience. Some books come with a Linux
distribution on a CD-Rom. There are also Linux quick reference books, and books on specialized
areas of Linux, such as Network Administration, shell programming, etc.
The Linux Documentation
Project (LDP) has some complete books
on their web site. and some publishers carry on-line beta versions of
soon-to-be-published books. This gives you a chance to
sample the text before laying out your cash. BUT... buying the print edition
may be a more efficient use of your time and money than downloading the books
off the web.
Any good search engine will return a very long
list of web references to Linux books.
For a more concise listing (but still very long) you can try the
search feature at:
Amazon.com
Barnesandnoble.com
www.fatbrain.com
These three will also give
you a discount if you order on-line.
One of the better listings of Linux and Linux-related books is available at the "Linux On-line" site: http://www.linux.org/books/index.html
O'Reilly http://www.ora.com virtually pioneered the publishing of books about Open-Source software, and sells most of the classic texts in this field.
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Reminiscent of what Stroud's did for Windows/Internet apps.- Linux Software Directory at Linux Online
- http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html
- Dry but detailed and extensive listings
See the resources below (and others) for more directories of Linux-compatible application software
Technical Support for Linux is now widely available. It may be included in the purchase price of your Linux distribution (eg Red Hat, Suse). It may be available as an annual contract from major distributors and from hardware vendors (eg. VA/Linux, IBM). Some vendors specialize in providing Linux support on a contract basis; the most famous of these is Linuxcare.com
- LDP : The Linux Documentation Project
- http://www.tldp.org
- used to be: http://www.linuxdoc.org
- before that it was: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/
- http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/
- used to be: http://www.linuxdoc.org
- LDP: The Linux HOW-TOs
- http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
- LDP : Linux books in on-line formats
- http://www.tldp.org/guides.html
among others, the complete texts of:
Installation and Getting Started Guide, by Matt Welsh et al ver 3.2
Chapter 3 (units 3.1 thru 3.14.3) is an Introduction to using Linux
This classic text, now a little out of date, is also available at bookstores everywhere.
The Linux Kernel, version 0.8-3 by David A. Rusling
The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide, version 0.7 by Michael K. Johnson
The Linux Network Administrators' Guide, version 1.0 by Olaf Kirch,
The Linux Programmer's Guide, version 0.4 by B. Scott Burkett, et al
The Linux System Administrators' Guide, version 0.6.1 by Lars Wirzenius
The Linux Users' Guide, version beta-1 by Larry Greenfield, - LDP : List of Linux newsgroups
- http://www.tldp.org/links/index.html#ng
www.ibiblio.org used to be metalab.unc.edu which had been sunsite.unc.edu
- OpenSource.org
- http://www.opensource.org
- Linux On-line
- http://www.linux.org
- Free Software Foundation
- http://www.fsf.org
- http://www.gnu.org
- Linux International
- http://www.li.org
- DOSEMU.ORG
- http://www.dosemu.org
devoted to info on the Dos emulator for Unix/Linux - Freebsd - another open Unix - with a similar philosophy
- http://www.freebsd.org
These and many other sites have information about the history and philosophy of the free-software and open-software movements, as well as providing other helpful resources.
- http://www.linuxppc.org
- http://www.yellowdoglinux.com
- http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
- http://www.yellowdoglinux.com
- COMDEX -
- http://www.comdex.com
- ISPCON -
- http://www.ispcon.com
- Trenton Computer Fair - (April or May) held at College of New Jersey, outside Trenton, N.J.
- http://www.tcf-nj.org
- PC/EXPO - New York City
- http://www.pcexpo.com
- O'Reilly Conferences
- http://conferences.oreilly.com
- Linuxworld Expo: held in San Francisco, Boston, or New York:
- http://www.linuxworldexpo.com
SSC maintains a calendar of major Linux and Linux-related events internationally
Linux Journal calendar of Linux events worldwide
Linux is now represented at almost all major IT events such as:
- Linux HQ
- http://www.linuxhq.com
lots of well-organized links to resources - The New Hacker's Dictionary
- http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/
Eric Raymond's site (also in print) explains hacker, unix, and other computer terms, as well as much of the unix/hacker philosophy
(While you're there check out his article on "How to Ask Smart Questions", which is especially good to do before posting to a linux newsgroup) - Discussion lists
- Newsgroups, mailing lists and web boards are many and growing.
The LDP lists many of these and so do many of the resource sites.
Newsgroups can be found by doing a search at the DEJANEWS web site, using "linux" as the search argument. Using the name of a particular distribution (eg. "red hat" "suse" "debian") as the search argument may also turn up a useful newsgroup.- note: This has become: http://groups.google.com/
- The Linux announce newsgroup (aka C.O.L.A.)
- news:comp.os.linux.announce
A moderated newsgroup containing announcements of User Group meetings, commercial and non-commercial software releases, and other important Linux events.
The archives are at http://stump.algebra.com/~cola/, where you can search past postings by keyword.
note 1: "Beginner" is used here to include anyone new to Linux or to Unix in general. These links are far from comprehensive. This compilation is an attempt to help those still getting their bearings in the Linux world. The tutorials should be especially useful to those still needing their first clue, while the resources and documentation sites should be most useful to those who have their bearings, but want some basic maps.
last updated Feb 07, 2002
check the web for the many other sources of Linux information - r.d.shanen
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updated on March 07, 2003