Guide to the Linux Tutorials

These documents provide information on various Linux topics. They can be used to learn about a new topic or feature, or as revision aids when working towards the LPIC (Linux Professional Institute Certification) exams.

Getting started

• About Linux
• Raspberry Pi Linux computer for learning programming
• Windows 11 dual-boot Ubuntu

The Linux shell and command line programs

• Basic shell reference guide
• Linux documentation and help reference guide
• Linux command basics
• Linux useful commands
• vi text editor tutorial
• Linux links reference guide
• Linux miscellaneous command quick reference
• Linux file access permissions reference
• Offline software install

System administration

• Linux user administration reference guide
• Starting applications automatically in Linux
• Linux system automation with at and cron (crontab)
• Introduction to Linux security
• Linux printing using CUPS
• Linux sysadmin printing reference guide

Networking

• Computer networking overview
• TCP/IP networking reference guide
• Linux networking IP port aliasing tutorial
• TCP/UDP port numbers (/etc/services)

Servers

• Running the Raspberry Pi headless with Debian Linux
• Remote GUI access to a Linux computer using Tightvnc
• Guide to installing a LAMP webserver on Xubuntu
• Creating a LAMP server (web server - Linux Apache Mysql PHP) on the Raspberry Pi
• Running a lightweight webserver on the Raspberry Pi (lighttpd)
• Running Samba on a Raspberry Pi (Windows share drive)

Virtual machines

• Installing Raspberry Pi PIXEL x86 in a VM

Web development

• Guide to the Apache mod_rewrite module

Programming

• Basic shell programming reference guide
• Introduction to regular expressions
• Perl reqular expression quick reference guide

Problem Determination and Debugging

• Monitoring USB traffic with Wireshark

• Legal and Site Information
• Help

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