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Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
- ApiFB-Dev 5mo agoJust had a quick look, Damn this looks good man!
- InitialBP 5mo agoYou should really remove the entire PDF of the book that you've shared on a public repo. No Starch Press is a gem and worth protecting.
- wutwutwat 5mo agoNot to mention Adobe fixes PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have exploited for months https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-security-bug-that-hackers-have-exploited-for-months/
- quietbritishjim 5mo agoWhy is that relevant? Are you saying that this PDF is infected?
- hggh 5mo agoThat's the first edition (2019), not the second (2025). But both are in annas archive, anyway
- 0xDEFACED 5mo agofirst edition is also available on Internet Archive in multiple formats
- freedomben 5mo agoIt's also freely available from https://kea.nu/files/textbooks/humblesec/linuxbasicsforhackers.pdf https://kea.nu/files/textbooks/humblesec/linuxbasicsforhacke... and plenty other places with a quick search.
- Arainach 5mo ago"Someone else has pirated this, so it's OK for me to do it as well" isn't a good argument. If you see litter on the ground already, that doesn't make it OK to litter more.
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- iamalizard 5mo agoI can think of a better analogy than littering for pirating an item at more than 1 place. When you litter, you add to the trash. If everyone littered, it would be awful. But if everyone pirated the same content on a different site/platform/protocol, it would still be 1 pirated item. The better, IMO, analogy, is if you have an ad glued somewhere, say at a bus stop. Another person comes with their ad and wants to glue it. They glue it over the previous ad. The amount of ads visible remains the same. There's a negligible disadvantage for the city - they have to haul away twice as many paper. But most importantly, the amount of visual clutter hasn't been increased if the second ad is glued over the first one. That analogy works if you're against piracy and ads on public places, of course.
- Arainach 5mo agoPeople trying to justify piracy was tired in 1997 and it's embarassing now. It would be better if you just embrace the fact that you're unwilling to pay for creative effort and OK depriving creators of money - that isn't my ethos but it's at least honest and consistent. Arguing that piracy doesn't hurt someone is trivially wrong, lazy, and self-centered. This isn't even abandonware. If you don't want to buy the book, go to a library or read a publicly accessible blog, but piracy is bullshit full stop.
- zokier 5mo agoBased on the nearly decade old first edition of the book (2018). I was wondering about the retro vibes.
- liendolucas 5mo agoFor anyone just starting I highly recommend: "Linux Pocket Guide" and if moving forward adopting linux as a daily driver "Efficient Linux At The Command Line". Both books by Daniel J. Barnett. Even if you're a seasoned Linux user you will learn a lot from those books.
- cwnyth 5mo agoJust a nitpick: Barrett, not Barnett. It's nice to see a new edition of Linux Pocket Guide come out just 2 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Barrett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Barrett
- liendolucas 5mo agoThanks for pointing it out! I visually checked the books on the shelf but my eyes tricked me and confused "rr" by "rn".
- hi41 5mo agoThank you for the recommendation. Both books seem to about the command line. How are the books different?
- liendolucas 5mo agoThe pocket is perfect for beginners. It has a nice introduction in chapter 1 that explains all essential concepts to understand and operate the console. Then it is basically a sort of reference of a moderate list of most useful commands for performing different tasks. The "Efficient" book is an in depth walkthrough of the shell and how to reason and combine important commands to perform not trivial tasks. It is certainly a book to be re-read from time to time because it has plenty of good tricks and explanations.
- Projectiboga 5mo agoThank you for both of these recommendations.
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- fitsumbelay 5mo agothe kind of post I internet for. A+. thank you
- joshmayer 5mo agopure rage bait
- fitsumbelay 5mo agomy comment was genuine it was a helpful post
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- ma2kx 5mo agoWhat has this to do with "hackers"? And can you share your experience in your personal study with "ifconfig" as described in Module 3?
- ldh 5mo agoI would say knowing linux basics should probably come _before_ identifying as a "hacker"
- mzajc 5mo agoWhy is this marked (2019)? Besides the book PDF, everything seems to have been created in a commit 3 weeks ago. The way some things are phrased smells of LLM style as well.
- drayfield 5mo agoLooks like someone just pointed an LLM at the PDF and asked it to write a Markdown version. Very poor show.
- sas224dbm 5mo ago90s Solaris dude here .. Unix Power Tools was the book that had the most borrow rate in our office ..
- dlev_pika 5mo agoI’m fairly sure I downloaded a copy way back when, probably from some BBS, from the other end of the world where I used to live That, and the Anarchist Cookbook..
- Projectiboga 5mo agoHere is the Publisher link for the official just released 2nd edition. https://nostarch.com/linux-basics-hackers-2nd-edition https://nostarch.com/linux-basics-hackers-2nd-edition
- fitsumbelay 5mo agoawesome post. much appreciated, thanks