Learn Linux The Hard Way (β version)

Awesome! Please note that despite its popularity, ifconfig hasn't been maintained at all for the lady decade and breaks on some networking configurations. No distributions use it - they use e ip command iproute2, which I see you also cover.

Ifconfig is still part of Unix parlance, so I think you're doing the right thing by covering it, however I'd lead with the current tools, and then show ifconfig later, to prevent newcomers from unexpected surprises later on.

Duplicate! See thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4952128

Having a Linux instance available in the browser is really cool, and greatly reduces the barrier to getting started. It seems to have no man pages, though.

It would be really nice if there were an easy way for the reader to correct typos. Emailing the author or posting such things to the comments section is just so much more clumsy than it could be.

Amazing. I've been using Linux for years, but I realized I know almost anything: I don't know how to configure the network, I don't know awk or sed, I don't know to use chown/chmod correctly, etc.

I just run the command : find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; on the top directory of the project (I thought i was in the working files directory). My boss is going kill me.

at the # prompt type:

# yes die > /dev/mem

:-)

When I was younger my friends and I would find cool and interesting ways to crash unix boxes.

A more modern version:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mem

is there a easy way? different from this so called hard way?

its as they say: "you either get it or you don't, there is no easy or hard"

Is there any other way?

This is horrible.