Unix/Linux Class

[Paladin9]

Does anyone know of an online guide, tutorial, bible, class, whatever, that teaches someone how to use unix or linux? I want to learn a lot but it is hard to learn much. What I know about unix and linux took me a while to learn. At my college, the only computer classes there teach using fucking windows, nothing else. Is there any free guide that teaches someone how to use unix? I do not just mean a quick guide to some unix commands or something crappy like that. I mean a full on tutorial that teaches it like a class. How did you people learn what you know?

[hm_murdock]

I dicked around with it a lot.

anything so complex it requires classes to learn is too complex

[worker201]

I learned a lot from reading this quick tutorial:
http://unix.t-a-y-l-o-r.com/
(commands)

and reading how-tos and FAQs for everything that interested me:
http://www.tldp.org/

and asking a lot of questions here and elsewhere.

It helps that I was very familiar with Windows and DOS and networking before I started.

Read everything.  Install some distros and bang away.

[Paladin9]

I have been learning unix by dicking around with linux and osx for some time now, and I am learning stuff. Its just that I want to learn more, and a lot faster too.

[worker201]

Get yourself a Barnes&Noble discount card, and go shopping!
 

[Paladin9]

I was hoping not to pay anything...

[restin256]

Well, I have to say that TLDP has helped me out a hella lot. It's "the fucking manual" everybody refers to when helping people with Linux. And it doesn't cost a dime.

EDIT: also don't underestimate help forums like http://www.linuxiso.org/forums  

[ February 26, 2004: Message edited by: restin256 ]

[WMD]

http://www.linux.org/lessons/short/index.html

[hm_murdock]

Worker's got the right idea.

Hit up your local libraries. If you're in college, get books from the university library

[worker201]

I guess I am doing alright in Linux, because I almost killed myself reading the beginner's course at linux.org.  Like reading "Windows 95 for Dummies".

The books I keep right next to my computer at work:
"Unix: In a Nutshell" (O'Reilly with a lemur or something)
"Learning the Unix Operating System" (O'Reilly with an owl)
"Learning the bash Shell" (O'Reilly with a fish)
"Using csh & tcsh" (O'Reilly with a duck)

As you can see, O'Reilly is pretty good.  There's Linux specific books out there, but they tend to be distro-specific.  Learn the basics and hack away.

[hm_murdock]

Another good one is Email Snooping by O'Really