A colleague has just pointed me in the direction of the IBM DeveloperWorks site <www.ibm.com/developerworks>.
They have a number of areas which they call "Technology Zones" one of which is Linux, if you go to a zone and then select Education from the left hand menu there are a number of tutorials that look interesting e.g. Introduction to XFree86 4.X, Configuring TCP/IP under Linux, Backing up your Linux machines, CVS for the developer or amateur, Getting to know GRUB, Compiling and installing software from sources, to name but a few.
You can view them online or download zipped HTML or a PDF.
You'll need to register (but what the heck, on the internet no one know you're a dog ;-) )
I've skimmed through a couple and my 1st impression is that they're useful introductory material but tend to lack a bit of detail. Probably a good starting point for someone new to a topic before getting into the more detailed stuff.
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Keith Watson Keith.Watson@Kewill.com wrote:
I've skimmed through a couple and my 1st impression is that they're useful introductory material but tend to lack a bit of detail. Probably a good starting point for someone new to a topic before getting into the more detailed stuff.
How do they compare to the more normal sources of information such as (for example) http://www.tldp.org/ and http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ ?
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:27:16AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Keith Watson Keith.Watson@Kewill.com wrote:
I've skimmed through a couple and my 1st impression is that they're useful introductory material but tend to lack a bit of detail. Probably a good starting point for someone new to a topic before getting into the more detailed stuff.
How do they compare to the more normal sources of information such as (for example) http://www.tldp.org/ and http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ ?
The IBM tutorials are very good, I have been using them for more than a couple of years now. They lean towards actual hands on exercises to learn a new skill something rather than the tldp and linuxnewbie type articles which seem to lean more towards the "how do i make this work on my machine" type of article.
The IBM articles are very well written, and very informative. Certainly a good place to go if you have spare time and want to learn about something new, the 3 part article on ssh for example was a very good introduction to how and why etc. Lots of the articles there are written by the main Gentoo person also.
Adam
Adam Bower abower@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
[...] They lean towards actual hands on exercises to learn a new skill something rather than the tldp and linuxnewbie type articles which seem to lean more towards the "how do i make this work on my machine" type of article.
tldp isn't just HOWTOs, but I guess you mean that IBM articles are mostly skills tutorial exercises, so I get your point.
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