Learn Linux The Hard Way (β version)

Hey @mwargh could you email me at help@learncodethehardway.org? I got awesome goodies for you.<p>I ended up completely redoing the LxTHW base structure and converted all my books to it, but I haven't got around to updating the repo with the new gear. If you email me I'll hook you up with the latest.<p>The new gear uses dexy (<a href="http://dexy.it" rel="nofollow">http://dexy.it</a>) still, but uses all the features of the newer dexy and switches to rST intead of latex. I also have a converter that converts from the old latex structure pretty well. The results are much easier to host and convert to pdf, mobi, epub, html, etc. and easier to write.<p>So, contact me (or anyone looking to do one of these).

Love the idea, the context, and the execution. It's a great project. Not a fan of the name.<p>Zed Shaw has a well-established series of "Learn $topic the Hard Way" online books, with Addison Wesley publishing a 3rd edition of his "Learn Python the Hard Way" this spring. He is building a brand and a business around this name.<p>I'd be surprised to learn that "Learn ... the Hard Way" isn't trademarked, but even if it isn't, it strikes me as disingenuous, misleading, and potentially confusing to name your work after his.<p>As far as I can tell, Mr Shaw has nothing to do with this project, but then the "Learn Linux the Hard Way" name might, to some, imply that he does.<p>Edited to add: I do not have a dog in this fight, just pointing out a potential conflict.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to try to stuff vim in there. It's hard enough to try to learn unix command line skills, throwing vim in to the mix is just a detour. Nano is good enough for tutorial purposes.<p>And I'm a hard core Vim user. I have no strong opinions for or against specific text editors but any hacker worth their salt should know Vim and/or Emacs to be able to use a powerful text editor when stranded in the console for one reason or another.<p>But this kind of superficial introduction to Vim is a big disservice. The last thing we need is people who hate Vim because they understand it poorly based on a short tutorial.

More like "Learn scaling your web app the hard way" ;)<p>(Page isn't loading for me)

I wrote this guide, sorry for 502. I wasn't really anticipating this much interest. I'm doing something about it now.<p>Also you can blame me for including vim, but I'm conviced that basic vi knowledge is essential.

This looks like a great guide. One piece of advice I was given early on was to start with a minimal distribution like Gentoo. While not as essential for day-to-day use, knowing about how the various lower-level components interact has gotten me out of a lot of otherwise catastrophic situations across several operating systems - FreeBSD especially and occasionally on OSX. Thanks for writing this guide, it is sure to give a sturdy foundation in *nix usage to the ambitious beginner who follows it.

Other than occasional 502 errors, the site doesn't work for me. Browsers used:<p>1. FF 17x<p>2. Maxthon 4x (IE engine)<p>3. Seamonkey<p>Chrome is too memory intensive for my machine and the font rendering is poor, so stopped using it.<p>Any others having problems?

404 for me.<p>Make sure to update your nginx/0.7.67, there was a number of security related upgrades.<p>Don't use the one in ports. Compile or if you are on Ubuntu:<p><pre><code> sudo -s nginx=stable # use nginx=development for latest development version add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx apt-get update apt-get install nginx </code></pre> ;-)

Thanks for doing this. I have gone through a similar course on bash commands though it was not interactive but just list of basic commands and explanations. This is very helpful in building Linux knowledge for enthusiasts like me.

The guide could be great, but the JavaScript based shell takes a life to open up and kills the experience. Why not use Linux on a Linux machine than a VM, JS shell etc? This makes it real hard to learn.

values of β will give rise to dom?

This looks awesome. I've yet to find a really focused and directed guide to learning Linux basics, this looks like it could be it.

502... Bad gateway?<p>Or I may be missing something deep and hard?

i learned linux the hard way, eons ago: i broke shit. didn't mean to, i just did. then you learn how things fit together when you try and fix them.<p>(it's also why my shell was ksh for eons, my editor was vi for eons, etc. all stuff you have when /usr won't mount.)

Anyone have a link to the working .ova download?

Scary, when you see linux loading in browser

If you want to learn Linux; use Linux.<p>It's that simple. It won't be easy, but it will be worth it. There are no silver bullets. For anything.

404 not found..!?

a mirror, a mirror, my republic for a mirror!