Linux Training

As announced in February new versions of the Linux training courses were being (re-)written by Paul.

I’m pleased to announce that v2 was merged in the master branch on github.

I you want to test it or just check it out:


git clone git://github.com/linuxtraining/lt.git
cd lt
git submodule init
git submodule update
./make.sh
./make.sh build fundamentals


Feedback is welcome, by mail at contributors@linux-training.be or via a github issue.

If you prefer to just download the latest books in PDF format, check out the download page. These are nightly builds from the master branch.

You may have noticed that since February 2011 there have been no updates to the free pdf’s. That is because we have been redesigning the docbook source code to accommodate smaller books (we call them minibooks). This mandates a rewrite of the build system and a refitting of the .xml files and directories. This is all being done in the git experimental branch.

We take the minibook redesign also as an opportunity to rewrite/improve the content of each subject. Making this a time consuming process. The good news is that some minibooks should be coming online soon (say July 2011).  We plan to finish at least the Linux Fundamentals (big)book by the end of July (it will consist of six or seven minibooks).

Some recent changes.

I updated the make script to be a little more decent. (A little less clumsy actually.)

The LT project contained until now both the linux-training books, but also “Datacommunicatie en Netwerken” (in short, Datanet) which is a Dutch introductory course  about data communication and basic networking. We split both projects into two separate repositories: next to https://github.com/linuxtraining/lt you can also now check out https://github.com/linuxtraining/datanet.

For now the changes are not in the master branch yet, but those will be merged in the coming days.

Just moved the main git repository from gitorious to Github:

https://github.com/linuxtraining

You might want to update your remotes!