Here are links to other Linux resources. See also ChurchServerProjectResources. I have other resource lists on my home TWiki.

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Recent Notes

• As Linux seems to be starting to gain public notice (at least in terms of articles and books published about Linux), it seems less necessary to record resources here. I'll add a few today, then probably only add those that seem exceptionally useful in the future.

Online Books (Not Only Linux)

• See OnlineAndElectronicBooks

Other Lists of Linux Resources

• from the Basic Linux Training course
• Loads of Linux Links
• Welcome to LinuxSlides -- odd little site -- links to slides from presentations at conferences and so forth -- part of Linux Center -- not exactly sure what it is

Sites with Goals like WikiLearn

• Linux Migration, Inc. — " This site gives you the nuts and bolts view of how to get things going in Linux in the shortest amount of time. No need to wade through lots of documentation." — The page on networking seems quite good, with information on changing the IP address of a machine.

Introductory

Introductory Books

• Newbie's Linux manual, by Laurence Hunter, on line
• Linux Newbie Administrator Guide, Stan and Peter Klimas
• An Introduction to Linux Systems Administration, David Jones and Bruce Jamieson
• Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition, Paul Sheer
• The Linux Cookbook, Michael Stutz (also at http://tldp.org/guides.html#cookbook and http://tldp.org/LDP/linuxcookbook/html/?)
• Securing and Optimizing Linux: Red Hat Edition, Gerhard Mourani
• O'Reilly Open Book Projects
• "Running Linux", by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer & Lar Kaufman, O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-469-x -- "Although not mandrake-specific, highly recommeded!" -- Kaj Haulrich
• "If you order (Mandrake) PowerPack there are a few good pdf/html books included with in the cds, cheaper in the long run then buying the hard copies. These books include KDE/Gimp/Mandrake." -- Gary Chisholm, http://mud.nexlinks.net/
• Linux Manual -- found while searching for stuff on email -- looks pretty good, especially Linux root user's manual -- has nice summaries of commands, with simple syntax examples -- looks like the basic operation and perhaps other sections are similar -- some of this could be the basis for the BeginnersManPages I'd like to create -- see BeginnersManPagesDiscussion.
• The Linux 3rd Edition Pocketbook -- this may be sold out, you may want to try the The Advanced Linux Pocketbook
• See MandrakeLinuxResources.
• Think Unix; Jonathan Lasser's attempt at "an intro-to-Unix book for smart people." -- sounds intriguing -- I wonder if it would help me (and if I qualify ) -- haven't seen it anywhere so far to page through it.
• LINUX NEWBIE ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE; ver. 0.193 2002-12-14; Stan, Peter and Marie Klimas -- just found this recently and trying to read it -- looks pretty good, with some advocacy thrown in

Introductory Articles

• Linux Questions and Answers was written by Mark T. Chapman (IBM) to assist Microsoft Windows users in migrating to Linux -- 50 page pdf whitepaper. This is really excellent, but it is unfortunate that it is in pdf so that I can neither link to it nor easily copy it to WikiLearn (which might not be permissible anyway). I would like to write to IBM and encourage them to make it available in HTML, or let me "mirror" it on WikiLearn.
• A Brief Linux Glossary for Windows Users (also by Mark T. Chapman (IBM), available from the same place (??) as the previous item on this list.
• 379 Linux commands listed Alphabetically w/ options -- suggested by Chris Clark
• Mandrake User -- Tutorials, Tips & Tricks by and for Mandrake Linux users -- just skimmed a few articles (really shallow skim) -- looks useful including a set of articles on setting up an email server
• Tips for New Linux Users, Part 1, Ralph Glanz, April 26, 02 -- looks interesting, haven't tried to read.
• Sharky's Linux Notes, compiled and written by Charlton Rose -- a site with goals similar to WikiLearn -- notes of things he's managed to accomplish in Linux, to make it easier for the next guy. I may add pointers to specific articles on specific WikiLearn pages.
• Setting Up Mandrake 8.1 -- I had to include this -- I have a "credit" on the page
• The One Page Linux Manual -- on two pages, but useful listing of commands, files, permissions -- get it in .pdf or .ps and print it out
• 4 newbie questions about Linux answered: Trying Linux has never been easier; Dec 4, 2002; Mark Cappel -- includes a brief overview of the different ways to run Windows programs on Linux -- Wine, win4lin, CodeWeavers CrossOver Office, VMware.
• Things We Wish We Knew Before We Started Or Shortly After; -- looks like it could have been useful when I started -- haven't read it -- overs a lot of ground including compiling programs, TrueType fonts

fuzzy fonts on the web and much more

Introductory Tutorials

• LPI Certification 101 Exam Prep -- Looks like an excellent IBM tutorial on introductory Linux, although it is advertised as a tutorial for certification. It just seems way too elementary for that. I think there are 8 parts to the tutorial -- maybe it gets significantly more advanced, or maybe LPI 101 certification is very basic.
• ITSC 1307 UNIX Operating System; Allan Kochis, viewed 12 Sept 2002 -- professor's class notes from a course on Unix, looks useful, I read up to u008.html on SED -- some errors in the beginning (IMHO) but quite helpful -- he also has notes (nearby) on a C++ class -- I haven't looked at those.
• The Linux Tutorial; viewed 25 April 2003; — this site sounds promising, but I haven't done any reading so far. From the first page:

This site is a detailed introduction to Linux. It is based on my book Linux User's Resource, with a great many additions and I continue to add to the site almost daily. Please keep in mind that this is all copyrighted material. ...

If you are looking for answers to specific questions, then your best bet is to look through the on-line knowledge base for your distribution, any of the numerous newsgroups, or the HOWTOs that come with most distributions. This site is intended as an introductory to intermediate tutorial and is not necessarily intended as step-by-step instructions or a place to provide you links to every other Linux site on the Internet. ...

Introductory and General Linux Sites

• LinuxNewbie.org
• www.fifi.org Section 1: User Commands -- Man pages for something like 1500 commands
• man pages -- lots and lots of man pages
• [[http://www.linuxcommand.org/superman_pages.html][Super Man Pages -- "the man pages for Red Hat 8.0 presented in both alphabetical and functional order"
• LinuxOrbit HOWTOs -- after perusing a through of these (and adding links to them at some appropriate places on WikiLearn), the site looks pretty good. Some HOWTOs have scary titles (17 Easy Steps to Samba: Version 1.0) -- maybe not a reflection on this site, but maybe a reflection on Linux. The site probably has stuff besides HOWTOS, haven't looked. Two (related) problems: the font size is too small to suit me, and I can't increase the font size using IE5s View -> Text Size. Oops, maybe that was because I didn't have the IE option to ignore font sizes specified on web pages checked (I thought it worked on other sites, though -- I'll have to pay attention).
• IBM developerWorks: Linux zone -- the "introductory page" to the Linux zone -- updated often (I assume) with links to current stories. Also see Linux at IBM -- the Linux "portal"
• Various resources at http://www.linux-mandrake.com (and the web sites of other distros)
• Linux Step by Step -- sounds a little bit like my intent with WikiLearn -- "notebook style, first person accounts of installing software or hardware on a Linux system" sounds good -- I'm going to dig into DNS first, and then PostFix if it's covered.
• Articles, Tips, How-To's; A.P. Lawrence Home; UNIXART -- May officially be for SCO Unix, but seems to have some useful articles, and some of them are intentionally brief (for the person in a hurry).
• A Scientist's and Engineer's Guide to Workstations and Supercomputers -- looks pretty good, could be as old as 1993 (or at least it's based on a book from then)
• A History of Unix — with a sidebar with links to some intriguing page titles, like The 10 Unix commands every beginner needs to know... and The 62 Core Commands — seems worth exploring further

Periodicals

On Line

• Linux Gazette Current Issue, get back issues by ftp, list of mirrors.
• Linux Weekly News start here, and navigate to get the page you want (links have changed, the link to the bigpage format apparently changes every week now, I need to pin this down.

"Off Line"

In Depth Books

• O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools -- "walks you through almost every aspect of a typical Unix os" -- Chris Keelan

Books or Articles on Linux Architecture

• Kernel Projects for Linux by Gary Nutt -- rec. by Walther Logeman
• the linux kernel documents at linuxdoc.org -- rec. by Anuerin G. Diaz
• Understanding the Linux Kernel -- rec. by Paul Rodríguez
• Linux for Dummies -- rec. by shanon loveridge
• Running Linux and Linux in a Nutshell, both from O'Reilly publisher -- rec. by Michael Scottaline

Interactive Stuff (Chat Rooms, etc.)

• http://www.lnxcoders.org
• Three of the Internet's best places to get started with Linux, Tina Gasperson, April 02, 2002 -- newchix, mandrake forum, BLT

Command Line Stuff and Shell Scripting

• http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/programming/introbashscript.html
• http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/bash.html
• http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytitle/22D84C62513A001186256B4900603332?OpenDocument
• The Linux Terminal - a Beginners' Bash, Ramon Casha, 8 Nov 2001 -- started reading -- looks like a good approach
• Useless Use of Cat Award -- learning from bad examples
• http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (somewhere at http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html)
• http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-1.1.tar.gz -- not sure what this is -- link not found when I tried it
• http://www.csd.uu.se/~matkin/documents/shell/
• Basica walk through
• basica HOW-TO
• adding colors to your script's output
• OK. I've Logged in. What Now? -- could be pretty good, starting to read -- probably the (or one) source for the page CommandLineHistory

No Recommendation

• MilkywayGalaxy - Linux Home Page -- Is this "Al Dev's" page?

Contributors

• RandyKramer - 05 Feb 2002
• Niki Kovacs
• Brian Parish
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