An open library of Linux lore.
Five canonical guides from the Linux Documentation Project — parsed back into living chapters,
searchable across thousands of pages. From your first ls to advanced shell craft and
a 21,142-entry dictionary of the lingua franca.
Choose your manuscript
Each tome is a complete guide on its own. They cross-reference well — many readers move from Introduction to Bash Beginners to ABS.
Introduction to Linux
A beginner-friendly survey of the Linux system — history, file system, processes, networking, sound, video.
Bash Guide for Beginners
A gentle on-ramp to Bash scripting — variables, conditionals, regular expressions, sed, awk, interactive scripts.
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
The deep encyclopedia of Bash — subshells, process substitution, debugging, regex, network programming, gotchas.
GNU/Linux Tools Summary
A summary of useful command-line tools across shell tips, file system, system info, text, math, networking, security.
Linux Dictionary
A comprehensive A–Z reference of Linux, UNIX, and POSIX terminology — one of the largest open Linux dictionaries.
What's inside
Where to start
The newcomer
Never used Linux? Start here.
The shell apprentice
You know cd — now you want power.
The scripting mage
For when shell is your first language.
The reference seeker
Find the term, find the tool.
Why LinuxLore?
The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) collected some of the most respected free guides to Linux. Many were last touched in the mid-2000s, but their fundamentals haven't aged. They're often distributed as compressed plain text — readable, but not friendly.
LinuxLore takes those plain-text manuscripts and rebuilds them as a site you can read: a sidebar TOC, a deep search across every section, an alphabetic dictionary index, anchored permalinks, and typography that doesn't fight your eyes.
Every word of the originals is preserved — chapter for chapter, section for section, dictionary entry for dictionary entry. No paraphrasing. No summaries. The structure is re-derived; the content is unchanged.
Find what you need
Browse by tome
Pick one of the five guides. Each opens with a sidebar that lets you jump to any chapter or numbered section.
Search everything
Hit / from any page. Live, ranked cross-document search across every section and dictionary entry.
Look up a term
The Linux Dictionary has its own alphabetic index — 21,142 entries spanning programs, kernel concepts, distros, and jargon.
Deep-link
Every chapter and section has a stable anchor. Share #s-3-2-1-style links with anyone, anywhere.