What to read a newbie?

Sorry to ask, we ourselves are not local, give someone as much as you can.
Somewhere in the blog, I saw several articles on Linux for newbies. There was about the console, about how it is generally arranged and about other initial things. But unfortunately I can not find now:
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Tell me what to give a newbie to read on Linux?
The task is to teach a person to create VirtualHost Apache and start a database via phpmyadmin.

Thanks in advance.