7 Ways To Learn Linux In A Structured Manner

Youtube is one of the best tools for learning about pretty much every subject.

It also provides a way for trainers to hook you in and direct you to their full courses.

As such, you can find some good long training videos which provide a very healthy amount of detail.

This video by Jerry Banfield is almost 5 hours long and provides an introduction to Red Hat and CentOS.

The introduction is about 20 minutes long but, once you get past it, you will be shown how to create a virtual machine using virtualbox and how to install Red Hat/CentOS.

Later on in the video, you will be shown how to set up Linux as a dual boot system with Windows.

You will then be shown how to use the desktop environment and some Linux command line essentials.

For a free video, you do get a lot of information. 

This set of 18 video tutorials by Guru99 on Youtube provides a good level of information for Linux beginners.

The series covers the following topics:

• What is Linux,
• Distributions
• installation methods
• Linux vs Windows
• Terminal vs GUI
• important Linux commands
• Linux file permissions
• Printing, Installing Software and Email
• Redirection
• Pipes, Grep and Sort
• Regular Expressions
• Environment variables 
• FTP, SSH, and Ping
• Managing processes
• VI editor
• Shell scripting
• Introduction to PERL
• Virtual terminals
• Linux administration

The Youtube video mentioned in item 1 of this list is just a short snippet, (if you can count over 4 hours as a short snippet) of the amount of information that Jerry Banfield can provide about Linux.

On his website at jerrybanfield.com you will find more Linux based courses and they are all ridiculously good value for money at just $9 each.

Courses include:

• CentOS and Red Hat Linux To Certified System Administrator
• Ubuntu Linux from beginner to power user
• Bash programming course

Udemy is a site which provides training courses on a large number of subjects.

The beauty of Udemy is the amount and quality of content for the price that you pay.

I remember following an introduction to ASP.NET and MVC on Udemy and the amount ​ Ipaid was just £9. This included over 7.5 hours of video and it was incredibly well presented.

Udemy has a good number of Linux-based courses available including the following:

• Learn Linux administration and supercharge your career
• Linux for beginners

For a full list click on this link. Courses generally start around the £9 mark  

Each course includes a description, a list of topics covered and ratings by people who have taken the course.

As an IT professional I have a Pluralsight subscription.

In my day job, I am a software developer and there is no better way for keeping up to date with the latest trends and topics than signing up and following the training courses at Pluralsight. 

Pluralsight works on a subscription basis and costs $29.99 a month for individuals or $49.99 for the premium option.

This may be a little bit pricey for the casual Linux user but for people who want to start a career in Linux or continually stay up to date on Linux it is a really good resource.

Spending $299 a year on training for an IT professional is actually very low priced compared to more conventional office based training.

The list of Linux courses is immense and the quality of the materials is at a very high level.

You can easily follow the courses on Pluralsight for building towards gaining your Linux certification.

PluralSight provides courses on many different subjects of which Linux is one of them.

Linux Academy is dedicated to Linux and therefore the content maybe more focused.

Again the training courses at Linux Academy are based on a monthly subscription which starts at $29 a month.

As well as providing training courses, Linux Academy also provides assessments and example examinations.