Looks like someone just pointed an LLM at the PDF and asked it to write a Markdown version. Very poor show.
Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
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#22For anyone just starting I highly recommend: "Linux Pocket Guide" and if moving forward adopting linux as a daily driver "Efficient Linux At The Command Line". Both books by Daniel J. Barnett. Even if you're a seasoned Linux user you will learn a lot from those books.
Just a nitpick: Barrett, not Barnett. It's nice to see a new edition of Linux Pocket Guide come out just 2 years ago.
Re: Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
#23For anyone just starting I highly recommend: "Linux Pocket Guide" and if moving forward adopting linux as a daily driver "Efficient Linux At The Command Line". Both books by Daniel J. Barnett. Even if you're a seasoned Linux user you will learn a lot from those books.
Thank you for the recommendation. Both books seem to about the command line. How are the books different?
Re: Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
#24For anyone just starting I highly recommend: "Linux Pocket Guide" and if moving forward adopting linux as a daily driver "Efficient Linux At The Command Line". Both books by Daniel J. Barnett. Even if you're a seasoned Linux user you will learn a lot from those books.
Just a nitpick: Barrett, not Barnett. It's nice to see a new edition of Linux Pocket Guide come out just 2 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Barrett
Thanks for pointing it out! I visually checked the books on the shelf but my eyes tricked me and confused "rr" by "rn".
Re: Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
#25For anyone just starting I highly recommend: "Linux Pocket Guide" and if moving forward adopting linux as a daily driver "Efficient Linux At The Command Line". Both books by Daniel J. Barnett. Even if you're a seasoned Linux user you will learn a lot from those books.
Thank you for the recommendation. Both books seem to about the command line. How are the books different?
The pocket is perfect for beginners. It has a nice introduction in chapter 1 that explains all essential concepts to understand and operate the console. Then it is basically a sort of reference of a moderate list of most useful commands for performing different tasks.
The "Efficient" book is an in depth walkthrough of the shell and how to reason and combine important commands to perform not trivial tasks. It is certainly a book to be re-read from time to time because it has plenty of good tricks and explanations.
Re: Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the first edition (2019), not the second (2025). But both are in annas archive, anyway
"Someone else has pirated this, so it's OK for me to do it as well" isn't a good argument. If you see litter on the ground already, that doesn't make it OK to litter more.
I can think of a better analogy than littering for pirating an item at more than 1 place. When you litter, you add to the trash. If everyone littered, it would be awful. But if everyone pirated the same content on a different site/platform/protocol, it would still be 1 pirated item.
The better, IMO, analogy, is if you have an ad glued somewhere, say at a bus stop. Another person comes with their ad and wants to glue it. They glue it over the previous ad. The amount of ads visible remains the same. There's a negligible disadvantage for the city - they have to haul away twice as many paper. But most importantly, the amount of visual clutter hasn't been increased if the second ad is glued over the first one.
That analogy works if you're against piracy and ads on public places, of course.
Re: Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
#27For anyone just starting I highly recommend: "Linux Pocket Guide" and if moving forward adopting linux as a daily driver "Efficient Linux At The Command Line". Both books by Daniel J. Barnett. Even if you're a seasoned Linux user you will learn a lot from those books.
Thank you for both of these recommendations.
Re: Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
#2890s Solaris dude here .. Unix Power Tools was the book that had the most borrow rate in our office ..
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#2990s Solaris dude here .. Unix Power Tools was the book that had the most borrow rate in our office ..
I’m fairly sure I downloaded a copy way back when, probably from some BBS, from the other end of the world where I used to live
That, and the Anarchist Cookbook..
Re: Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
#30Here is the Publisher link for the official just released 2nd edition.