Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs • Hacker News Board

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by JasonFruit » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 1:42 PM UTC

hansor wrote: post #6

throwaway823882 wrote: post #3

I gained the skills to become a Systems Admin when I was 17 by reading and following HOWTOs. I keep telling myself I will start writing new HOWTOs and publish them there, because the blog-spam instructions of today make it take 10x longer to get things done. Would anybody else write new HOWTOs?

Same here. With those HOWTOs I was able to learn networking from scratch in home without actually having internet connection. Good times :) > Would anybody else write new HOWTOs? I always wanted to, but because I'm not native English speaker I was always afraid to publish anything. Still i think it could be very beneficial - especially that we all observed dozen of forums and websites just vanished over the last deca…

If this comment is any evidence, your English is good enough that I would be able to learn from what you write.

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by andi999 » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

For me it was, without HOWTOs you couldnt get anything done.

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by _ZeD_ » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 2:01 PM UTC

rascul wrote: post #8

gerikson wrote: post #2

Last updated in 2015: https://tldp.org/sorted_howtos.html

There have been some updates in the Github repo since then ( https://github.com/tLDP/LDP/commits/master ) but I don't notice any new content. It was a great resource for me decades ago, but now I understand TLDP to be mostly old and stale (and sometimes arguably bad, such as the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide) and generally better sources can be easily found.

What's bad about ABS? I remember I used that guide a lot back in the days

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by grafelic » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 2:01 PM UTC

https://github.com/lahwaacz/arch-wiki-docs as an alternative to tldp for offline viewing. IMO the Arch wiki is the best Linux configuration resource available.

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by desktopninja » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 2:06 PM UTC

Just feels right:

  echo cappuccino >/dev/coffee

Ref: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Coffee/#ss4.1

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by _benj » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 2:17 PM UTC

Those HOWTOs where what started me on Linux back in Slackware time when I’d order CDs of it because downloading those ISO with dialup was almost impossible. Good times!

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by alexpetralia » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

One of my favorite resources on Linux is this: http://www.linfo.org/newbies.html

I have learned so much about low-level systems from these encyclopedic (yet extremely simply written) articles.

Make sure to click into the links on things you don't know - it is a very fun rabbit hole!

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by durnygbur » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

I have a dedicated private git repository for classic, awesome, and useful programming material serving as local offline knowledge base, and it awaits for content like this.

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by hliyan » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 2:31 PM UTC

What tool can I use to simply create and manage text files like these? Something that can indent and wrap using spaces rather than rich formatting. https://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/DHCP

Re: Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs

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Post by teddyh » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 2:37 PM UTC

I was going to link to the venerable collection of Usenet FAQs at rtfm.mit.edu, but the server seems down at the moment. (I seem to recall using it a few weeks ago.)