Free Linux Course for Beginners
Nov, 1st, 2007
LinuxBasics.org, The community that helps people to run Linux, offers their second free Linux class, An Introduction to Linux Basics.
This course is designed to give a foundation of understanding of Linux to a beginner who wants to know a little more about the system. More advanced Linux users will find an opportunity to dig deeper into some areas they always wanted to know more about or discover gaps in their knowledge that they didn’t know existed.
The study guide used will be LBook, an edited version of Introduction to Linux: A Hands on Guide by Machtelt Garrels which is distributed under the GNU FDL. This is the fourth beginner’s course done by LinuxBasics.org and the third time using this book, which has proven very useful. Through its free license, participants were able to change the textbook themselves to clarify or to emphasize certain points.
You will need to join the LBo forum in order to participate in the course http://linuxbasics.org/forum.
Signup is set to begin on November 1st, 2007 and the class itself one week later. You can also join after the November 8th starting date.
For more information, visit http://linuxbasics.org/forum/index.php?board=2.0.
About LinuxBasics.org
Nov, 1st 2007
LinuxBasic.org (short: LBo) is a community project with the goal to help people to install and run the Linux™ operating system. It was founded in May 2004 and has been growing ever since.
LBo offers a free Linux Course for beginners, which runs about 6 months as well as tutorials and links to sites that offer information needed to install and use Linux. With the beginning of the latest course, LBo has a friendly forum for questions that arise when people start using Linux. A blog for desktop tips and tricks as well as an IRC-channel complete the list of things you can find at LinuxBasics.org.
As a community, LBo offers the possibility to get involved. There are many ways to contribute: You can answer questions on the forum, you can write a complete tutorial or just a step-by-step documentation on how you completed a specific task using linux.
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Welcome to LinuxBasics.org - The online community that helps people to get Linux installed and running.
During this tour, we will guide you through our website, which has many facets which wait to be explored
The biggest project we are running is our Linux course, based on the LBook.
The book is stored in wiki-format, which enables us to update and correct it as we go.
Discussion for the course is on our Forum
Our Forum is used for discussion of Linux and for questions and answers.
Search the mailing-list that was used prior to the Forum.
The questions and answers from the list are stored in the list's archives in order to help others with the same problems.
Every weekend, we meet to chat in IRC. These meetings are NOT mandatory, but are a nice chance to get to know each other better.
IRC is also a great tool to solve many problems, since it is very quick and easy to ask for more details if you need them.
The tutorials are one of the oldest sections on the LBo-website.
Here you find explanations on how to do specific tasks in Linux. Many of the tutorials were created after a certain problem
has been discussed (and usually solved :) on the mailing-list.
The tutorials are categorized in
In the links section, you find outbound links to other valuable resources.
One of our later additions to the site. We maintain a mirror of the Linux Documentation Project. This is our contribution to the "home of the HOWTOs"
Another later addition is the LBlog which focuses on how to do stuff on the Linux Desktop. It begins with the basics on installing Ubuntu.
Using the integrated site-search, you can search the tutorials, the LBook and all other wiki-pages
Simply type the search term into the box in the upper-right corner of our webpages
As a community, we depend on your feedback and collaboration. So, if you have something to share with others, please contact us. If you have a suggestion for a topic you would like to see covered here, please add it on the Wishlist.
There are many ways to contribute: You can answer questions on the Forum, you can write a complete tutorial or just a step-by-step documentation on how you completed a specific task using linux. Ask questions if the information on this site is not clear, tell us if we got something wrong, spell-check our writings, whatever.
We are looking forward to meeting you at LinuxBasics.org
Anita, Jisao, Sam and Stefan