Welcome to the exclusive edition of “BEGINNER’S GUIDE FOR LINUX” by TecMint, this course module is specially designed and compiled for those beginners, who want to make their way into the Linux learning process and do the best in today’s IT organizations.
This courseware is created as per the requirements of the industrial environment with complete entrance to Linux, which will help you to build great success in Linux.
We have given special priority to Linux commands and switches, scripting, services, and applications, access control, process control, user management, database management, web services, etc.
Even though the Linux command line provides thousands of commands, but only a few basic commands you need to learn to perform day-to-day tasks in the Linux operating system.
All students must have a little understanding of computers and a passion to learn new technology.
This courseware is presently supported on the latest releases of Linux distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Rocky/Alma Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
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Dear Sir, I am interested in building my own PC to run Linux systems, specifically for tasks related to Astronomy, Architecture, and Advanced Mathematics. Could you please provide guidance on the necessary components and the recommended order for assembly? Thank you for your assistance. Reply
Ravi Saive@Albert, To build a Linux PC for your needs, you’ll need components like a CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, motherboard, and power supply. The order of assembly typically starts with the motherboard and CPU, followed by RAM, GPU, storage, and power supply. Don’t forget to install your chosen Linux distribution once it’s assembled. Feel free to ask for more details Reply
Hi Ravi The index looks very extensive. Is the book available as pdf? BEGINNER’S GUIDE FOR LINUX – Start Learning Linux in Minutes Regards
Ghokul Reply
@Ghokul, The book is currently under progress, and we are working actively to ensure it provides valuable insights for beginners. Once it’s ready, we’ll make sure to offer it in PDF format. Stay tuned for updates!” Reply
Juan CarlosThank You, I think this guide is excellent, (I am a beginner in Linux) I am very interested in the Linux world, and I will try to dedicate the necessary time to complete it, Thank you very much for your contribution. Reply
Is this book (BEGINNER’S GUIDE FOR LINUX) available as a pdf? Reply Ravi Saive @Hussam, Currently not, but it will be available as PDF in the coming months… Reply Mazhar NoorHi Ravi, I am really interested in this book and willing to know how I can get a free soft copy of this book? Reply
Mettavihari DenmarkeHi Ravi The index looks very extensive. Is the book available as pdf? BEGINNER’S GUIDE FOR LINUX – Start Learning Linux in Minutes Regards
Metta Reply
I’d love to see one addition and it’s perfect. How to pull edit and flash images maybe using the dd command. Reply
Some glitches need to be addressed. There are some things like getting into a multi-line command prompt that is not beginner-friendly. Need to express how and why that works and most importantly how to get out of it. Would really appreciate a more detailed approach for newbies. Reply
Having an issue with symlinks being created broken. Following along with ln -s /var/www/html htm and ends up broken as indicated by red with a black background. Have effectively deleted the dangling link but can’t understand why it’s being created broken and/or how to fix it. Have been digging through many pages but coming up empty. This is a great site that you have established for newbies and am extending my appreciation for what you’ve done here. Hope you can help me with this. Thanks. Reply
Thanks for your great work in helping the masses get a better understanding of Linux. I’ve just bought you a few coffees and I would like to suggest and urge anyone else who has also found your TecMint website both useful and helpful to them, to do likewise, with some more coffees for you. Keep up your great work, it is very much appreciated. Regards, William. Reply
Ravi Saive @William, Thanks for the support and love…:) ReplyMy Brain is Tired …….. I have no interest in programming since I’m over 70 and have been using Windows forever. I put in a blocker that supposedly keeps 10 out so I’m looking for something simple that will run some old windows things. I used to be able to save whole pages with ease but I think that’s a Firefox browser issue. I thought that some easy form of Linux might be able to mimic the old IE without inviting in spies which is a major problem these days. Shifting gears: I tried to set up (I think it was) Zorin but found that I needed something to show my passwords etc instead of dots. Immediately after that I would have taken a screenshot (which wasn’t available) and put it into a nonexistent folder. That was NO fun. I have a copy of Elementary OS version 5.1.2 x 64. Should I bother with it? Reply
Keith OdomAm I the only one who can’t seem to find the “buy” button for the “Learn Linux in One Week” ebook? Maybe I’m blind, but I just don’t see the “buy” button. Reply
Ravi Saive @Keith, We don’t have a PDF version of this guide, all resources here are free to learn… Reply Thank you so much for sharing such good knowledge for free. May God bless your team a lotttt…. Reply CodersNoon Yes, thank you for your useful guide… Reply Saleem Nasir Dear Ravi, I need this guide as I want to learn Linux. Thanks and RegardsThanks billion for sharing this valuable knowledge with us. Believe me, no one is ready to share this type of vast knowledge for free. Love Tecmint.com Team. Again Thanks trillion. Reply
Mohammed AzamHi, I need a pdf for “BEGINNER’S GUIDE FOR LINUX”, can you please let me know how can I get it… REgards Reply
Abdul-Rahman NormanI’d like a PDF of these documents too. I want to have my phone screen reader read them out to me while I commute to and from work and a PDF is good for that. Thanks Reply
sahil AryaHello Abdul, Can you please share the pdf documents of Linux so that I can read comfortably through my phone? I generally feel that pdf is the best source to read anything. Regards,
Sahil Arya Reply
Hello Ravi, Thank you very much for sharing. This is a very comprehensive Linux beginner’s guide. Regards and stay safe,
Colin Reply
Dear Ravi I need your help… I am new user of Linux. I installed Q4OS, every time I need to update the software, it asks me to put the password for (Authentication) to be able to update the software. at the top of the screen, it is saying: policykit1-KDE agent kindly can you please tell me how to stop this every time I need to update the password. my kindest regards
Habib Reply
That is for security to prevent unauthorized access to your system. If you disable password checking or allow password-less access to your system, anybody will be able to install or upgrade software on your system. You will not be able to control what they install. Reply
Deeply thank you for sharing with us. It is a useful and best website for Linux learning. Regards,
Vila Reply
In Section 1, the fifth point is “Installation of latest Virtual box on Linux”. Not “Installation of CentOS on Virtual box”. Please change the topic on this page. Reply
Ravi Saive @Mohan, Corrected in the article, thanks Reply Shatrughan Singh Very Good Website, for Beginer of Linux and Advance ReplyThank you man its best of the best searched and found such a complete and clear package of Linux. Reply
agus sutrisno very useful, thank a lot. Reply Bile Bakshi This is the best site for beginners and advanced user to learn Linux. ReplyHi Ravi, I am also try to complete my certification in Advance Linux programming become a Linux Security programmer. please suggest me which certification is best for become a Linux programmer in security. share me hierarchy which is 1st certification and remaining. Overall this article is useful to me. for next study. Thanks Reply
In case you’d like to do the edits: all the instances of “advance” should be “advanced”. “Advance” is a verb, meaning to go forward. “Advanced” is an adjective meaning highly developed or complex. (Just to make it confusing: “advanced” is also the he past tense of “advance”: “The army advanced on the enemy.”) Reply
Monika MBATOURS.inVery good article, it has been made very well, it has very good information, its content is also very good, thank you Reply
I am a young boy who just finished metric and I am very good at computers buildup and repairing to exploring i would like to learn more about LINUX. Reply
Anwar YakkiparambanNice Article! Ravi, Thanks for your great collection of Linux articles all together at one place.. Reply
Rehan KarankotHello Sir, I an an E&TC Engineering Student & I am very Desperate to learn Linux because Linux is my Dream, so Even i want to learn from Your Website, is these a free website for learning ? Reply
Ravi Saive@Rehan, This article coves everything from basic to advance on Linux, you will nowhere find such comprehensive list of topics for newbies on Linux.. Reply
Be around for a long time and I have never seen this site pop up once. Reply Tanmoy Das Great Job Sir, I never knew about this site. Reply Ravi Saive@Tanmoy, Oops are you kidding me? this Linux site is one of the leading site for Linux community since last 5 years, which has over 4 million visitors a month. Reply
Just wanted to say, WOW I mean it amazing Thank you Reply Rohit Duggal These resources are really amazing. I am sure the community would love your article. ReplyHi, I don’t have words to thank for your help, i just started as fresher in Linux . Your blog had cleared most of the doubts and helped me solve my issue. Again thanks for your help. Reply
Ravi… THANK YOU. So much for this wealth of information, all your knowledge, research and time spent building this site. But most of all having the generosity to share all this knowledge, resources and the tools you offer new guys like me. Especially the cheat sheets and tricks that helps make it quicker and easier to get started right away for newbies like me . This site is awesome. And so are you man! Thanks a million! Reply
Congratulation Ravi, You have a huge of information to learn everything about Linux. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Reply
Bhavik raval Hi Ravi Sir, Do you have any new information in Linux? please give me some help. Reply Ravi Saive@Bhavik, What new information on Linux? what do you mean? this guide has everything from beginning to expert, just go through it learn step-by-step sections as explained here.. Reply
rookielearnerI hope that all contents from those tutorials are available on pdf. so I can read it later offline. Reply
What kind of Linux you suggest for who wanna start using Linux firstly? For personal using Reply Ravi Saive@Fadhiel, Go for Fedora or Linux Mint, these two distributions are good for newbies who want to make mark in Linux world.. Reply
As much as I’d love to be able to download your free tutorials; if they’re anything like the online tutorials I’m sure they’d be very instructive. But inasmuch as I am not prepared to provide the (surprisingly) large amount of personal data in order to download them, I guess I’ll have to be satisfied with your newsletter and web articles. I am quite concerned that you would require so much user information in order to download something you claim is free. I suggest to you that it is not; that the cost is being willing to relinquish personal details as the price. Sorry if that’s negative, I’m still looking forward to reading more of your online articles and newsletter. The download requirements just close the door for me as an option that’s all. Reply
Ravi Saive@Robert, I really understand your concerns about giving away personal information, but trust us your personal information won’t be shared with anyone, they are just used to send newsletters and offers on weekly basis. Reply
Awesome Website that covers almost anything on Linux. As a beginner in Linux, I benefited from this site. Thank you so much. Reply
Do you guys have “BEGINNER’S GUIDE FOR LINUX – Start Learning Linux in Minutes” in a pdf form, it has been very helpful in helping me to understand Linux better. Please let me know if you have it in pdf Reply
Ravi Saive@Max, We are in process of creating and it will be available next month hopefully April month end.. Reply
Any update on the compilation of the pdf? This is June….I am still waiting for your help in this regard. Reply
Ravi Saive@Max, Sorry for delay, give me some more time as it required lots of work to combine all chapters into one single PDF.. Reply
Whilst this may be a great beginners guide for someone who is looking to use Linux for a career as a sysadmin or similar, it’s not ideal for those just wanting to use Linux on their desktop computer. Reply
dragonmouth@A Ross:
If all you want to do is run Linux programs on your desktop PC, do a default install of Mint, Zorin or Ubuntu and start using the applications provided. However, let me ask you a couple of questions – What are you going to do when you run into problems? Who is going to administer your computer then? Are you going to go to a repair shop? Chances are all most repair shop know is Windows. Nobody says you must learn everything before you can use Linux. This is a comprehensive A-Z guide for all readers of Tecmint; for those that, like you, just want to use Linux and for those that will make a career of it. Think of this guide as an encyclopedia. Would you throw out the entire Britannica just because most of it is not relevant to your needs? Just like with an encyclopedia, take what you need/want and disregard the rest. Reply
Hi Ravi Saive, this commands are enough to do RHCE certification ?
do you have video lecture to learn linux? Reply
@Shekhu, These guides are for learning Linux, but if you are looking for RHCE certification, then go for our RHCSA/RHCE exam preparation guide here: https://www.tecmint.com/red-hat-rhcsa-rhce-exam-certification-book/ Reply
sudhir sutarHello Ravi Saive, I want to do a carrier in Linux administration, how can I choose the path to get success in less time. Now I am totally new to Linux and I’ve learned few basic commands. I want a perfect guidance, so that I can get job in Level 1, later I will manage to learn Linux more and manage my Linux career. Reply
Ravi Saive@Sudhir, No worries, just go through our “Beginners Guide for Linux” and start learning Linux and make sure to follow order from basic to advance sections… Reply
actively browsing your site.. Red Em Reply Aaron Kili @Red Em Thanks for following us, hope you’ll find all that you need about Linux. ReplyHello, BEGINNER’S GUIDE FOR LINUX – Start Learning Linux in Minutes is amazing. Thank a ton for sharing. Do you have VMware courses or any documentation, I am totaly new to vmware and I want to learn. Reply
I am at basic level on Linux, I still wondering which distro should I choose to learn I once installed and running and Fedora and CentOS with tutorial from internet. And btw why your course material choose to teach CentOs distribution instead of Ubuntu. Reply
Aaron Kili@Djemmy You can start with Linux Mint or Ubuntu, these are recommended and beginner-friendly Linux distributions under the Debian family. If you want to start under the RedHat ecosystem, i would recommend you start with Fedora. About the tutorials, we also teach Ubuntu Linux as well, you can find Ubuntu tutorials in abundance on this site, navigate the site and you will find what you want concerning major Linux distros. Thanks for getting in touch. Reply
OMG! This is for beginners. My brain just melted looking at the ‘course objectives’. All I want is a safe and private OS so that evil Microsoft stop spying on me. I do not have the brain to take this in… at all. This has seriously scared me off. NOT good Reply
Ravi Saive@Marie, Yes, the courseware is deigned for beginners only, but the course starts from basic level to more advance expert level.. Reply
Rohit Kumar PandeyI am having a problem installing virtual box and VMware in my laptop. I have Windows 7 64-bit OS. please help. I am taking training for Red Hat System Administrator. Reply
Ravi Saive@Rohit, Could you tell us clearly what problem you getting while installing Virtualbox and VMWare? so that we can help you out with solution.. Reply
Aleksander Aleksander Lovely Tutorial :) Thaaaaaank you. Reply Big up to the person responsible for this, as a Linux novice I’m learning daily. Reply Best tutorial ever + it’s free. Thank you for this kind sir. Reply This is the best Linux tutorial I have found till now, thank youi am a retiree of over 70 years old. i have a bit of old Unix base mini computer back in the day when a corporation want to to serious computer they have to install sun, dec or other minis that run on Unix. i happen to be in the Canadian arm forces so i was exposed to the Unix world. so i am a retired and getting tire of the ms os because of their cost and hard to know what the os is doing in the back while the actual application is working. i am looking to migrate back the Unix/Linux world. but i have left the Unix world for too long. i had try my hand on red hat, Debian, Ubuntu…etc, a while back when it was popular. so i was trying to download some of the such free manuals as Linux for beginners, Linux bible above. but it require me to enter company name, the number of employees, and my position in the company…etc. if i don’t enter any of that it will not let me to download them. is there a way around that? Reply
Prashant ThoratDear Ravi, At first I want you to Thank You for the work you have done.
I am a windows System Admin having over 4 years of experience working in windows environment and little bit in Linux.
Well now I found myself attracting towards Linux as it works mainly with commands.
I don’t have any knowledge of Linux nor Programming.
But i am very much interested in learning Linux to its core and side by side i want to learn Programming also.
Past 7 months I was looking for tutorials that will take me to mastering Linux.
But none of them was in a sequential manner that would motivate me learning the next section.
And now when I found your site, Woooooow my mind said.
This is the only Tutorial i was searching for past 7 months.
Your Tutorial for Linux is in a very Systematic manner, Sequential Manner, Clearly conceptual, Easy in a Language and It has everything that a Master Mentor should have to give knowledge to any Newbie who is Passionate about it.
You are really a Linux Guru and I Salute you for this. Thank You So Much Ravi,
Prashant Reply
@Prashant, Thanks for finding this Linux course useful and also thanks for appreciating our work.. Reply
Hello! This is the best Linux tutorial I have found till now, thank you! This is a high-quality content.
I appreciate your Hard work..
Thanks. Reply
@Santosh, Thanks for appreciating our work and tutorials, hope it will help you to learn Linux and make career in Linux. Reply
Nicely explained.Hello! This is the best Linux tutorial I have found till now, thank you! This is a high-quality content. Reply
Ravi Saive@Mahmud, Thanks a ton for finding this guide useful to you and thanks for appreciating our work and don’t forget to share this article with your friends on social network.. Reply
Wow@Vishnu, Thanks for liking and we’re regularly updating this guide with new stuff, just keep exploring and don’t forget to share with your all Linux friends.. Reply
Good day to you Ravi, I was just curious, I don’t suppose you have a method for creating a book out of all this info?…it would do much to further enhance the knowledge of quite a few hundred thousand Sys Admins who are looking to improve their Linux skills. I’m just wondering, not something you need to put on the front burner, but I guess if you should ever run into someone who had the ability to do it, maybe just run it by them to see if it’s feasible?….You could sell if right from your site here, and you’d make money on it….THAT’S for sure! Thanks! Eddie G. Reply
Ravi Saive@Eddie, Good day to you also, and thanks for the suggestions, yes we’re are already in process of creating a complete ebook on these all topics mentioned here. Last week we also launched a new book on RedHat RHCSA and RHCE Certification Preparation Study Guide here https://www.tecmint.com/red-hat-rhcsa-rhce-exam-certification-book/ Reply
Winter AceSir,
Good day!
I am newbie in linux, i really want to learn and use linux and also i want to setup proxy server in our company that control allow and block IP address to access internet, but i don’t how to setup and configure using linux, go you have guide or tuitorial for this.
I’m choosing between fedora, centos and ubuntu, please help. thanks. Reply
@Winter, Thanks for reading this article and I wishes a very good luck for your future in Linux, about setting up squid proxy server for restricted access across company users. I suggest you to read our following guide that will show you how to configure squid to restrict access based on ACL rules… Install and Configure Squid Proxy with Restricted Access for Clients Reply
Rajatkumar V ZalaHello Sir,
I am very much happy about the compilation of post you have done as a Linux course on this page. I am a Linux lover. I want to keep all these posts as a PDF document (or any format). If you can provide me PDFs of all these post without comment, I will be very grateful to you.
Hope you understand my needs of these documents. Thanks Reply
@Rajat, I am glad that you found this page very useful, but due to large collections of posts its very difficult for me to convert them into PDF format. I hope you understand, but may I know why you want them in PDF? when you can easily access it anytime, anywhere from this page.. Reply
