The usual Q: A windows user looking to learn the black art of linux.

[BloodyL]

Hi there peeps,
Back in the day I used to love programming and taught myself as much as I could about structured language through Borland Turbo Pascal, then began dabbling in assembler code when Pascal v5 introduced inline assembly, Denthor's Asphyxia VGA tutorials came in very handy!

Now, after living in the world of windows for so long I have begun to feel that the life is being strangled out of Windows, I'm gutted that I don't actually have to get stuck into a command console in order to get things done.

I've Winstalled the latest Ubuntu onto my desktop and laptop for experimentation, and would like to delve deeper into things.

Could you guys point me in the right direction for both free & paid for, self-teaching and guided teaching of Linux?

My goal is to learn a new OS, learn about computer security and generally get back into programming.

I know I'll have to start from first principles in order to adjust to the linux methodology, so that's all cool.

Many thanks peeps.

 

[BloodyL]

Brilliant, I shall check those resources out more indepth tonight, distro sites are obviously blocked from this large retailers internal network but netbeans worked ok.
Looks like a pretty hefty toolkit for programming, cool.
At this time my focus is on learning linux, and then when I've got myself comfortable with things will I move on to programming.

Cheers for the input, appreciated.

 

[BloodyL]

Cygwin is installed and LFS is bookmarked, now I've just got to knuckle down and get learning, cheers.