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Learn Linux the Hard Way
An anonymous reader writes "Here is a free interactive beta of Learn Linux The Hard Way; a web-based virtual Linux environment which introduces the command line and other essential Linux concepts in 30 exercises. It's written in the style of Zed A. Shaw's Learn Code the Hard Way lessons. The authors says, 'You will encounter many detailed tables containing lists of many fields. You may think you do not need most of this information, but what I am trying to do here is to teach you the right way to approach all this scary data. And this right way is to interpret this data as mathematical formulas, where every single symbol has its meaning.' Of course, my first entry was rm -rf /* which only produced a stream of errors. I wish I had discovered something like a long time ago."
Learn Linux the Hard Way? I thought learning Linux, period, was the hard way!
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Note that this should not to be confused with Schrödinger's ass, the infamous non-deterministic pack mule known for delivering US weapons to either Afghanistan or Pakistan at any given time.
They did say the hard way. If someone wanted to learn the easy way they'd have installed Ubuntu... which I assume would have:
...cracking the password if needed
... ...getting cluttered and unusable?
booted up
connected to the closest availble wifi
googled for stories relevant to itself
posted this witty comment
became self aware
Skynet.
updated Unity
became unusably cluttered and bloated, thereby saving the human race.
Profit??? I mean, that's the MS did it, right?
Might have saved me the past two decades...
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
Site is down... someone is learning capacity planning the hard way.
...slashdotted immediately
How to set up a web based Linux test environment the hard way.
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Having your hodge podgey around your Windows is what makes it all GUI.
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
Agree. Windows is designed for intelligent people, whereas linux is designed for people less technologically inclined.
Of course, my first entry was rm -rf /* which only produced a stream of errors.
Try it again as root. =)
/* No Comment */
I installed Ubuntu for my father who is in his 80's. Not only does he know nothing about Linux, he doesn't even know that he is using Linux.
Yep, same experience here: I installed Ubuntu for my girlfriend to upgrade from XP when Windows 7 came out.
I never had the heart to tell her it wasn't Windows.