Subject: Re: Take me off this list as well.
From: Mark Brethen (mbrethen@rochester.rr.com)
Date: Sun Oct 28 2001 - 08:04:32 MST
> >I have bought Linux books and printed out hundreds of pages of manuals
>>and read through as much as I can stand. My intention was to spend my
>>time building sites and applications, not programming Linux or sifting
>>through numerous books, web sites and page after page of obscure
>>commands and then trying to figure out why they don't work.
>
> Maybe it wasn't the quantity of pages but the quality of the content. I
>have found many poorly written Linux books and web site (same goes for
>other OSes as well). Honestly, if it is well explained, Linux/Unix isn't
>that hard to grasp. BTW, OS X is based on the exact same bunch of 'obscure
>commands' and concepts that Linux is based on. If you want to do anything
>interesting with OS X, you'll still need to learn them.
Could you recommend some good Linux books or websites to us newbies :-)
--Mark mbrethen@rochester.rr.com
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