Every Linux user should learn Linux basics and how Linux works before they can use Linux, as a desktop operating system or as a server. Linux is not very hard too learn. If you have experience using other operating system before, you probably have to spend some times to get used with Linux environment, depends on what operating system you have used.

It is very important to learn the basics of Linux operating system. Although you can find a step by step tutorial on how to setup Linux server, for example, but without basic Linux knowledge, you won't be able to understand what you are doing. Spend some times to learn basics of Linux would save your times in the future.

Linux basics tutorials

You have learned some Linux basics knowledge during the hard disk partitioning and configure networking when setting up Linux installation. You probably have a basic idea about the Linux file system architecture now.

After finished the Linux installation process, Linux is going to reboot to complete the installation. Slackware Linux or Ubuntu server first boot will land you in a command line terminal. Here is a guide on what to do next, Linux basics - First boot into Linux terminal.

In Linux, there are six command line terminals by default. What is that means? Linux command line terminal also called virtual console. In windows, it's called command prompt. When Linux finished boot up, it'll prompt you to login at command line terminal. So you login into your Linux system. That's the Linux command line terminal one. There are five more Linux command line terminals that you can use independently in the system. Learn how you can use Linux terminals in Change Linux command line terminal tutorial.

Now that your Linux is already up and running, you are ready to learn some basics Linux. Linux system startup process involves several important steps that Linux users need to know. This is vital in case of system boot up failure. By learning how Linux process start up, user can configure or at least know where to look for when troubleshooting a broken system. You can read about Linux system start up process in Linux basics - System startup process tutorial.

Linux file system structure overview is an introduction to file system directory hierarchy in Linux system. A Linux beginner might get confuse between Linux file system structure and Linux filesystem types. File system structure is a Linux directory layout. Basically, there are 18 directories under / and every Linux user must have a basic knowledge on what each directory's purpose is. You can read more in Linux basics - Linux file system structure overview.

After learning all tutorials above, you should have a basic knowledge about the basics of Linux operating system. The next phase of basics Linux tutorial is to learn Linux commands. Linux is not like windows. In Linux, we can set up any server using command line terminal but that's not the reason why we need to learn Linux commands. Linux command line terminal (Linux virtual console) is the first interface that lets user interacts with the operating system. User can troubleshoots a broken system, do operating system administrations, set up networking and everything else including prepare the graphical user interface, which is the x-window system. Because of that, learning basic Linux commands and essential programs in command line terminal is necessary.

When learning Linux commands, user actually learns a shell commands. A shell is an interface that interact with operating system kernel, in our case, the Linux itself. A Linux default shell is called Bourne Again Shell or Bash which is based on Bourne shell. There are other shells that can be used in Linux such as C shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell. There is no need to master all Linux shells. The bash alone is enough. In reality, it takes months to master the bash commands. That's why the Linux commands has been put in a different category although learning Linux commands is considered basics Linux knowledge.