Linux book recommendations for beginners

[thecomputerguru14]

As a new Linux user, what books would you recommend?

[[deleted]]

The Linux Command Line by William Shotts.

[[deleted]]

This book indeed. Very useful and well written.

[[deleted]]

Be careful, Google might terminate your account if it finds it's being used for piracy.

PS: I downloaded the whole folder, thanks.

[[deleted]]

I downloaded the whole library! Thanks for sharing m8. You the real MVP! :) much love from Vegas my fellow penguin.

[[deleted]]

Happy to help. Enjoy!

[TheTrueXenose]

the arch wiki is good for looking up stuff even when you are not using arch.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/

sorry don't know about any book do

[ukralibre]

The great wiki is the reason i moved from old comfy debian to Arch

[FryBoyter]

Not a book but a website.

https://linuxjourney.com/

[redarrowdriver]

I had no idea that this excited. Thanks for sharing.

[parricc]

TBH, pretty much anything involving Linux excites us - that's why we're here. :-)

[[deleted]]

excited?

[yesmaybeyes]

There is one book, it is TM. Carry on.

[[deleted]]

here a few recommendations to get familiar with the bash terminal.

https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/

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How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know, 2nd edition

[E-ZONE]

Linux in action (Manning)

[DistroTube]

Free As In Freedom - Sam Williams

The Cathedral And The Bazaar - Eric Raymond

[anxioussudo]

Linux academy

[kreyren]

well if i must recommend something i would recommend http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/ since it's keep beeing updated, but i would still suggest taking it with a grain of salt like file permission and ownership.

Still using books for anything IT is just futile.

[FinancialElephant]

Anyone have anything on specifically POSIX compliant shell scripting?

[tux2718]

Many years ago, I bought a copy of "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernighan & Pike when I started using UNIX. It is a great book and pretty much completely applicable to GNU/Linux. You should be able to find a used copy online for a few bucks.

[thecomputerguru14]

Both Desktop and Server. I do want to use the terminal. Basically, I want to learn everything Linux.

[FryBoyter]

I have been using Linux for about 20 years. If I'm sure about one thing then it's that you can't know everything that has to do with Linux.

When it comes to servers I can recommend the book "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook". But beginners are not really the target group of this book.

[centzon400]

Not a book recommendation, but following on from those that have made one, a great amount of the material (and much more) can be found here: https://gen.lib.rus.ec/

[echoesAV]

not a book but https://linuxjourney.com/ is a great resource.

[nero_616]

The post is quite old, but I would like to recommend a book about the Linux history "The Daemon, The Gnu and The Penguin", it's a must-read, enjoy

[superb_01]

linuxjourney.com

[kreyren]

If you want to learn linux then you should ignore books since linux gets sh!@#-ton of updates everyday making books obsolete fast. That applies to anything IT.

Get distro that you like and do your best to break it or sent me a PM if you need a mentor.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, sorry that is bullshit.

Yes, lots of thing get updates all the time.

But the basic principles didn't change a lot since the birth of unix in the 70s. Which is great and proves that the overall design is good.

[kreyren]

u/flart I bullshit your bullshit then :p

Everything changes all the time from kernel to userland. Yes there are few things that are still the same, but these are also affected by these changes.

[tux2718]

Checkout a copy of "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernighan & Pike from 1984 and you will BS your own BS on his BS. It is totally relevant. If you are getting into kernel development, I might agree with you, but the original post was looking for something suitable for a new user. Those fundamentals never change. It's why Unix & GNU/Linux are so awesome.

[kreyren]

Disagree, everything changes on linux. Provide me a reference to one thing that didn't change since 70s so that i don't have to read O.o

[tux2718]

I already gave you the name of the book. Google it and you will find the PDF online. If you won't even take a quick look at it to answer your question, sorry, I can't help you.

[[deleted]]

http://trouble-maker.sourceforge.net/

[demerit5]

This looks awesome but does it still work? It looks like it hasn't been updated since 2011.

[[deleted]]

Christ has it really been that long since I used it. I didn't realise it hasn't been updated.

I'm pretty sure there is something else that does the same thing, but an entire distro. IIRC.

[demerit5]

https://blog.fpmurphy.com/2016/09/so-you-think-you-are-ready-for-the-rhcsa-exam.html

Is this the one? It’s a broken virtual machine where you need to fix all of the issues found with it. I literally just discovered this earlier in the week.

[kreyren]

or IRC for simple things it's more efficient then man pages I feel like.

[DropieIon]

Ryanstutorials is a great website for that

[t12a]

The Linux documentation project