As Linux is the third most used desktop based operating system which is used after Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X, it has less support than Windows and MAC operating systems. This article covers 10 top Linux Tutorial Sites that help you in understanding basic Linux tutorials and get you in hands-on for Linux OS.
The big factor is as Windows or Mac is because of craze to these operating systems and many of the top equipment vendors use these operating systems for selling their equipment. You only see developers and software engineers using different flavors of Linux as they are mostly open source and you can do hell a lot of things with these flavors of Linux operating systems.
As for Ubuntu(a most popular Linux distro) there are many questions like how to install Ubuntu, installing any software and driver, how to Install Ubuntu without removing windows with dual boot, how to configure network, how to run windows programs on Ubuntu and more and more. It’s only some examples of problems for only Ubuntu Linux. But you may using other Linux like Red Hat, Fedora, Back Track, openSUSE, Debian, Tux etc and having different types of critical problems.
Given below are the Top Linux Tutorial Websites in Web
10 Best Linux Tutorial Websites
#1 – Google
Google is one of the best website for learning Linux. You will find a lot of Linux Tutorials which help you with basics of Linux when you search in Google. So we always prefer adding Google to top of list
#2 – Linuxquestions.org
Linux Question is a Linux forum where you can get many solved question regarding to different types of troubles. You can also join there by registering and ask your questions and get help.
#3- HowtoGeek.com/tag/Linux
Howtogeek’s Linux tag page is not a forum. It’s a cool blog which contains almost all necessary artiles on different kinds of tuturials with screendshots. Their turorials are very easy to understand and you will really enjoy.
#4- Linuxforums.org
Linux forums is also a community forum like LinuxQestions. You can also get qifferent kinds of solved answares and also ask your own problem by joining.
#-5 – Ubuntugeek.com
They are really geek. If you are using Ubuntu Linux, you must need to check it out. All tutorials are very clear and you will also learn many things there. I highly recommend it for everybody.
#6- Wikipedia
It’s no need to mention the importance of Wikipedia. You will get all wikis with details related Linux system and it will help you to become more effective user of Linux.
#7- Ubuntuforums.org
Ubuntuforums is official forum site of Ubuntu.com site. So they will take your problem with extra weight. A good support team is there to help you regarding to your Ubuntu problem.
#8- Ubuntuguide.org
Ubuntuguide is actually a wiki site which contains many common troubleshootings that ubuntu fall. All guides are very clear and explaines how they work.
#9- Distro Specific Forums
Ubuntuforums is an example of distro specific forum which is dedicaded only for. Every Linux distro has their own forum community. So if you are using Fedora Linux, then you need to join fedora forum at fedoraforum.org and if you are running openSUSE Linux then join openSUSE forum at forums.opensuse.org and so on. use google to find out which distro forum is for you.
#10- Distro Specific Package Download Sites
Linux packages are those sites which provides softwares packages and repositories for their distro. For example packages.ubuntu.com will contain all software packages installable on Ubuntu linux and for Debian all debian packages can be found at packages.debian.org.
#11- DistroWatch
Distrowatch is neither a help portal nor a blog, but they will help download any linux distro on you choise and before downloading you can take a glance of overview of that linux. For example distrowatch.com/ubuntu will provied download links and quick summery of Ubuntu linux. This site is great and must recommended for everybody. You can also order DVD version from here.
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