Linux for Beginners: An Introduction to the Linux Operating System and Command Line

by Jason Cannon

Saber por dónde empezar cuando se aprende una nueva habilidad puede ser un reto, especialmente cuando el tema parece tan vasto. Puede haber tanta información disponible que ni siquiera puede decidir por dónde empezar. O peor aún, empieza a aprender y rápidamente descubre demasiados conceptos, comandos y matices que no se explican. Este tipo de experiencia es frustrante y le deja con más preguntas que respuestas. Linux Para Principiantes no hace ninguna suposición acerca de sus antecedentes o conocimiento de Linux. Usted no necesita tener ningún conocimiento previo para beneficiarse de este libro. Se le guiará paso a paso utilizando un enfoque lógico y sistemático. A medida que se encuentre con nuevos conceptos, comandos o jerga estos se explican en un lenguaje sencillo, lo que hace que sea fácil que cualquiera pueda entenderlo. Esto es lo que aprenderá al leer Linux Para

Genres: Computer Science, Computers, Nonfiction, Technology, Programming, Science, Reference

202 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 2014

Reviews

[Hassan Alsheikh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great start

A nice introduction for beginners Nd a good refresh for non-beginners.

The book has great extra resources for if you want to dive deeper.

[Elliott]

Good book for beginners

It's a good read, May be a little hard to follow if you've never used linux shell before. However not impossible to understand if you're a beginner. A wonderful book for reference for beginners. I would recommend and being free you can't go wrong.

[Gil · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book really is an introductory book on Linux. It assumes you're using Linux on a server but most of it also applies to Linux based desktop operating systems. Having used Ubuntu for about a year now, I had already gathered together a lot of the knowledge by googling and looking for problem-specific articles.

It was still beneficial to have all the information located in one place though. What I benefited from the most were the more abstract parts of an OS. Every then and now there was a command I had not seen before but most I had already learned from stack overflow. As that form of learning mostly consists of copying and pasting different commands, you don't really learn why you do certain things in this or that way. These parts of the book could have been expanded a bit in my opinion. But then again, the book is targeted at beginners.

[Augur Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite good introductory book for beginners, found a couple of points on common commands that I actually wasn't aware of in there as well - despite being a Linux engineer for several years - always something new to learn.
Could use a bit better editing, however the point was still obvious where that was the case (though I did chuckle at 'dpkg' being referred to as 'dkpg' in one line).
Other than that, the only issue would be that it is getting a little dated and missing a few small things (like the introduction of dnf on rpm-based systems, for example), but that kind of thing is expected with IT books as they age.

[Atif Shaikh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the go to book for anyone who is exposed to Linux environments in enterprise or DevOps environments with limited daily Linux exposure but need to get the bare essentials up and running in no time.

I think the content on SELinux should have been captured in more depth as that is the most common ACL mechanism in enterprise linux.

Content on containers, VMs and clustering were missing to cover the basics of a linux workload for beginners.

4 stars for not giving any intro to the OS internals or design philosophy essential for a newcomer.

[Daniel Ciszewski · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a good reference for using basic commands on Linux systems, but it’s content is very “raw” and focused on being very “hands on” with the system. Too little background informations are given to understand topics, but for learning commands it’s certainly better than reading man pages of them. The title of the book should be something like: “introduction to the command line on a linux OS” since as it stands it might misrepresent the contents of It, since you won’t learn about Linux OS much, but almost exclusively it teaches you bunch of basic commands.

[Aleksei Uljassov · Rating 3 out of 5]

I believe it is a good introduction to linux, a bit too short in some departments.
All in all it is quite simple to understand and to practice, there great examples in the book.
The only thing I disliked were the ads in the book, they could have been placed at the end of the the book and they were, so I am not sure why some of them were placed in different locations of the book too.

[Henrik Lynggaard Jensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

good introduction for linux

Got a better understanding of the commands grep, apt, su, sudo. Also was introduced to many new things. I need to read it again to fully understand all the content. Also very nice detail at the ending of each chapter author recommends more websites for a deep dive of the chapters content.

[Nikolai Ilushko · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are a beginner in the Linux world and want to know the power of the shell in Linux it’s definitely the book for you. It’s simple book but does contain a lot of useful concepts to understand how the Linux system is organized.

[Jesse Steele · Rating 5 out of 5]

It teaches 'properly'

This is an amazingly thorough and concise guide to the underlying concepts and framework that introduces Shell properly. From this, other Shell instructions actually make sense.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

I did learn about the Linux command line by reading this book. But I suspect I'd remember it more easily if it had been a little more interactive. I'd call this a good start. Btw, the author offers an online course that I suspect would be more interactive.

[Paweł Cisło · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have used Linux in the past for numerous times, and this e-book helped me to stabilize my knowledge around the most practical operations, which would be enough for the typical SysOps activities. It was a very comprehensive Linux tutorial that went beyond the “beginner” level.

[Stewart Shriver]

On the first page was a link that lead to my computer being frozen, and said "Call Microsoft Security, don't turn off your computer." I turned off the computer and restarted and everything was okay. I stopped reading the book after that.

[Russ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great for beginners!

Really good overview of the Linux environment, basics ins and outs and so forth. Great companion to the course on Udemy / Linux Training Academy as well.

[Craig Carignan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for the beginner. I got something out of it. It reminded me of somethings I forgot.

[Alexandru Tone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Succint yet comprehensive


S u c c i n t y e t c o m p r e h e n s i v e

[Neilina Corbeau · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'll need to re-read while actually doing the exercises, but it did help my basic understanding.

[Yoseph Mulugeta · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to read it

[Piotr Boruta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Książka dla początkujących.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good beginners book

This book makes no assumptions as to what you know and just lays out some foundational Linux topics to help you build on.

[Khói Sương · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Boyan Kehayov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always something to learn

Read the book just from curiosity :) Very good book for beginners! Will recommend to all my friends, wanted to learn Linux!

[OceanStar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Found many detailed cmd extensions for newbies, while lack of according explanations.

[Dinky · Rating 1 out of 5]

I dunno what happend to those who give this book a five star. I just think it is totally useless.

[Imtiaj Uddin]

nice

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book to start in Linux

[Sayed Reda · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing start in the world of linux and command line

[Lee Tookey · Rating 5 out of 5]

so many examples

This book is illustrated with many examples so you can easily pick up the subtleties of command line syntax. Lots of additional resource suggestions

[Boukman Bastia · Rating 3 out of 5]

He really brought you into the Linux world and gave you a plethora of practical steps the make the best of the OS

2nd Reading on Audible
12:19:24 Monday the 30th on January 2023

It was a good read, it is only 4 hours so he just covered the main points, I like the fact that since I know a bit more about Linux I understood a couple of the commands he was sharing.

[Rick · Rating 4 out of 5]

iNor bad for someone new to Linux or someone like me who took an extended break and needs a refresher. Nothing goes very deep though, it would have been nice if the switches in the example commands had been explained in more detail.