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Read more reviews at No Starch Press and Amazon.A book-in-progress about the linux kernel and its insides. The goal is simple - to share my modest knowledge about the insides of the linux kernel and help people who are interested in linux kernel insides, and other low-level subject matter. Questions/Suggestions: Feel free about any questions or suggestions by pinging me at twitter @0xAX, adding an issue or just drop me an email. Support If you like linux-insides you can support me with: Feel free to create issues or pull-requests if you have any problems. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before pushing any changes.The answer to the above may vary depending upon what the beginner is aiming by "learning" Linux.Although no matter what the user is interested in, The Linux Documentation Project should suffice for most if not all the doubts for a beginner.To be more precise, if the user is interested in an overall/comprehensive idea of Linux then The Complete Reference, Sixth Edition should come in handy.
Else if the user wants to understand the Linux kernel and its working then i would suggest to go for Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love.But IMHO all the book references may not serve the purpose as compared to actually trying hands on on a actual Linux system. Hence i would suggest anyone who wants to learn to go for practicing on actual systems. Begin with small errands that you as a normal user would do on a windows machine and try to do the same on Linux system.Thanks Ankit Srivastav for the A2A.: : BooksThey may be a bit outdated, but provide some really useful information for getting started on Linux.The question asks about the best books. So I would avoid mentioning about sites, courses, etc.Get started with a howto book that is easy to read and gets you to progress fast. It need not be the best book, but one that is useful for a beginner. From there, move on to better literature. There is one fabulous book to understand how the Linux system works. : How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know (9781593275679): Brian Ward: BooksIf you’re keen on the system calls and programming interfaces that Linux exposes, then try this brick.
: BooksThe last two books are by No Starch Press - one of my favourite tech book publishers.Don't know if it is the best, but I found Linux Administration to be quite helpful.For a concise and clean list of useful commands and their attributes - Not a to the point answer but may be helpful if you are just getting started (and hopefully to the numerous beginners who stumble upon this page):Get access to a computer. Get a popular live distro like ubuntu [The leading OS for PC, tablet, phone and cloud] or mint [Main Page - Linux Mint] (only to start with, then graduate to debian [Debian -- The Universal Operating System] and finally roll your own :) [Welcome to Linux From Scratch!] Learn to use the terminal. Learn BASH scripting [Bash Guide for Beginners]. Read the fukcing manuals [Linux Man Pages]. Finally, I would suggest picking up a unix book [UNIX Shell Programming] to learn linux. (Note that this is the last step and not compulsory at all, you may skip the book if you so wish).