A great way to learn the basics. It’ll be old, but that’s ok. It’s going to cover all the shell basics and then more. It’s still going to be useful, it’ll cost you pennies, you’ll be able to dip into it when you want, and you’ll be giving to a good cause.
Because the GUI may change, but bash goes on forever. 😉
(Seriously, if you need a
sedprimer or something, an old copy of O’Reilly’s Linux in a Nutshell is a decent resource.)Exactly! The old books cover the terminal commands really well and almost everything will still apply. If you read it cover to cover, you’re going to end up knowing more commands than most daily users of Linux and it’d help you with any networking / IT courses you intend to study.
Buy a second hand linux book you say.
I remember spend hours learning Novell networks for the CNE exam. With 18 months of me qualifying, most people had gone to NT . That’s when I quit networking and became a project manager
Really nostalgic about the times when you were taught computer stuff in physical books. The only ones I have nowadays in physical format is Code Complete and Clean Code…
I have an old Fedora book which still has a Fedora 15 disk in it! Helped me realize on old PC’s to burn the ISO onto a DVD for installation instead of finding a work around for not having a USB boot option in the BIOS.
