Re: A good reference beginner Linux Book (Please ADVICE)


Subject: Re: A good reference beginner Linux Book (Please ADVICE)
From: Pablo Fernandez (spifflinux@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 08:27:55 MST


Thanks Iain,

But what´s your personal opinion about "Running
Linux"? have you read / check it?

Thanks again

Regards

Pablo

--- Iain Stevenson <iain@IainStevenson.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, that life was that simple! Linux Complete isn't
> that bad as far as it
> goes. You will almost certainly end up with a long
> bookshelf!
>
> Linux in a Nutshell isn't much more than a command
> reference and I haven't
> used it much - "man <topic>" is often as effective.
>
> You're probably well advised to adopt an incremental
> purchasing strategy as
> you progress with installation. I found I needed:
>
> - an XWindows reference - but I hesitate to
> recommend the one I have
> - the O'Reilly books on Bind/DNS, Samba and Sendmail
> - a LDAP reference (but don't worry about this as a
> beginner)
>
> For most other things (eg fetcmail, Apache, squid,
> hylafax, diald) a
> combination of the documentation shipping with them
> and the mailing list
> archives have been adequate.
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> on 24/11/00 1:10 pm, Pablo Fernandez at
> spifflinux@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Hi Linux users,
> >
> > I am wonderign which Linux Book could be the best
> > choice for me? Since I have little experience with
> > this new OS.
> >
> > I have been thinking in this options,
> >
> > * Running Linux
> > * Linux in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly
> Nutshell)
> >
> >
> > I would like to hear comments and other options. I
> > have recently bought Linux Complete from Sybex...
> It
> > lacks of many important information : (
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Pablo
> >
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