Tille's Site

Introductory courses

• Basic UNIX: learn any UNIX.
• Introduction to Linux: A hands on guide, mirrored at the Linux documentation project, available in print from Fultus.com by Print On Demand and from Froogle.
• Bash Guide: for power users and sysadmins, also mirrored at the Linux documentation project and available in print from Fultus.com.
• LDAP Operations HOWTO: what you need to know about LDAP management on Linux and Solaris.
• Starten met Fedora Linux en Gnome: op aanvraag van vele Nederlandstalige lezers (al een beetje oud nu). De dienst Begeleid Individueel Studeren (BIS) van het Ministerie van Onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap verdeelt de cursus Linux. Deze cursus maakte ik midden-2006 en is gebaseerd op Ubuntu, zoveel mogelijk in het Nederlands.
• Intro to Linux Libraries: Practical C programming for the impatient, using the SDL framework.
• Ubuntu: Linux voor mensen: Een Nederlandstalige Linuxcursus voor beginners.
• Handboek Oplossingen met ODF: Nederlandstalig handboek over ODF.

If these works were useful to you, please consider a donation so that I can continue to mnake them available on-line.

Note: don't bookmark individual pages from these courses, since they are updated regularly and file names of chapters and sections might change. Bookmark the top level directory, e.g. http://tille.garrels.be/training/bash/.

Your comments are wanted on the Linux and Bash guides. Feel free to slurp them with some tool, such as wget, for off-line viewing, or buy the book! The second printed edition of the Introduction to Linux (ITL) guide is now available!

More basics

• Sed for dummies.
• Awk for dummies
• Shell scripts: simple exercises and examples.
• Linux libraries/programming with Linux/SDL for dummies: using SDL to get a grip on the programming business.
• The dangers of using MS Office: Who owns your documents?

Sun/Solaris stuff:

• Solaris Mini-HOWTOs and other notes
• Setting up ssh keys: don't do this if you can avoid it.
• Setting the resolution and colourdepth on workstations using frame buffered graphics cards.

Miscellaneous stuff

• LDP: Behind the screens of the Linux Documentation Project.
• Women in Linux HOWTO
• Installing and using HelixDNA, a real audio/video server.
• Taking screenshots of loginscreens, menus, error windows and so on.
• Booklist
• Articles
• The life of a sysadmin
• My reviewer: Tabatha proofreads docs I submit to TLDP
• My mailserver setup using Postfix, Amavis, SpamAssassin and ClamAV
• DocBook documentation: general info, editors, convertors, examples, ...
• HOWTO ignore ISA: bypassing restricting MS Proxy/Firewall configs
• Flowcharts for TLDP: illustrations of TLDP procedures.
• Remote display of Fedora desktop: configuring the server and starting Cygwin.
• Serving fonts with HP-UX: configuration and use with Cygwin client.