OK, I have gotten the bottoms of my feet pretty damp with SuSE Linux and am getting ready to work myself in up to the ankles. While I do, does anyone have a recommendation for a good reference book? I know about man and I have the books that came with my SuSE 7.3 Pro purchase, what I am looking for is a dictionary style format reference book. Something I can use when I come across either something you guys have mentioned here in the letters, or I have found in my stumblings with the OS. On thescreensavers.com website they recommend a book called Teach Yourself Linux by Steve Oualline and Eric Foster-Johnson. Can anyone let me know their thoughts on this, along with any other reference type books. Thanks for all the great advice you have offered to get this newbie out of his pampers. Greg Hicks
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:36:02 -0700
"Greg Hicks"
OK, I have gotten the bottoms of my feet pretty damp with SuSE Linux and am getting ready to work myself in up to the ankles. While I do, does anyone have a recommendation for a good reference book? I know about man and I have the books that came with my SuSE 7.3 Pro purchase, what I am looking for is a dictionary style format reference book. Something I can use when I come across either something you guys have mentioned here in the letters, or I have found in my stumblings with the OS. On thescreensavers.com website they recommend a book called Teach Yourself Linux by Steve Oualline and Eric Foster-Johnson. Can anyone let me know their thoughts on this, along with any other reference type books. Thanks for all the great advice you have offered to get this newbie out of his pampers. =====================================
Running Linux by Matt Walsh, et. al. (an O'Reilly publication) Linux in a Nutshell (another O'Reilly work) Mike -- "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Benjamin Franklin
I would very strongly second these suggestions. On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Michael Scottaline wrote:
Running Linux by Matt Walsh, et. al. (an O'Reilly publication)
Linux in a Nutshell (another O'Reilly work)
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One the best all around Linux books I've read is the "Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition" by Paul Sheer. It hase the most complete coverage of Linux that I've seen assembled in one book, is well written, and is useful for both beginner and experienced users. Lots of interesting tips and tricks from admin, shell scripting, services, to hardware, security, and boot machinery. It is Debian oriented, but 98% of the examples apply to any distro. I only wish it covered Postfix instead of Exim for the MTA :) Best Regards, Keith -- missing sig
Hi Greg, I am a beginner as well, and have found a good bash tutorial in the Linux section at download.com. It's called "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 1.1" Also, if you go to IBM.com and find the Linux section, there are all sorts of tutorials. You have to register, but it is free. Hope this helps. Neal On Wednesday 24 April 2002 17:36, Greg Hicks wrote:
OK, I have gotten the bottoms of my feet pretty damp with SuSE Linux and am getting ready to work myself in up to the ankles. While I do, does anyone have a recommendation for a good reference book? I know about man and I have the books that came with my SuSE 7.3 Pro purchase, what I am looking for is a dictionary style format reference book. Something I can use when I come across either something you guys have mentioned here in the letters, or I have found in my stumblings with the OS. On thescreensavers.com website they recommend a book called Teach Yourself Linux by Steve Oualline and Eric Foster-Johnson. Can anyone let me know their thoughts on this, along with any other reference type books. Thanks for all the great advice you have offered to get this newbie out of his pampers.
Greg Hicks
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 08:36 pm, Greg Hicks wrote:
OK, I have gotten the bottoms of my feet pretty damp with SuSE Linux and am getting ready to work myself in up to the ankles. While I do, does anyone have a recommendation for a good reference book? I know about man and I
If you want to know more about the power of the Linux command line and tools a good book is "Unix Power Tools" from O'Reilly, despite the name it's almost all applicable to Linux; and it's more about tips than power-tools, as most of the "Power Tools" it discusses are GNU tools already available on almost every Linux system. A good general reference work is "Linux in a Nutshell" but it really teach all that much beyond the man pages; although of course it's clearer than man pages. I'm reading now the new "Linux Administration Handbook" by Nemeth et al., it's very useful although not for beginners. -- No good deed goes unpunished. -- Clare Boothe Luce
On Wednesday, 24 April 2002 20:36, Greg Hicks wrote:
... they recommend a book called Teach Yourself Linux by Steve Oualline and Eric Foster-Johnson. ...
Greg: I don't know about that one, but I learned a lot from **Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours** by Bill Ball (mine is Second Edition), which has the advantage of coming with its own CD-ROM (installing Caldera). It's **really** a beginner's book, Linux Kindergarten material, won't satisfy your craving for a PhD reading... BTW, having a different OS (Caldera) is at once frustrating and illuminating. Regards, gilson, in /usually/ sunny, balmy Florida's Suncoast.
Hi, all, I apologize for my writing " **Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours** is Linux Kindergarten material." I was unfair and more than facetious. The book covers all grades K to 12... It's well worth the price .(No, I don't get any commission or royalties.) Regards, gr, in /usually/ sunny, balmy Florida's Suncoast.
Hi Greg, The LDP (Linux Documentation Project) contains lots of goodies: http://www.tldp.org/ IBM Developerworks have good articles http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/ On Lamp: http://linux.oreillynet.com/ You may want to look at the LPI certification book by ORA which may give you something to aim at. I think it is a bull on the front cover. HTH. Jon
Woot! After being told that this was impossibile I updated my windows partition w/o harming SuSE 8's delicate bits. 1. Original system Dell Laptop Latitude w/30GB disk: 2GB FAT32 Win98SE 14GB FAT32 data 2. Installed SuSE 8 in remaining 12GB Default install seemingly wanted to use my windows partition so I had to make adjustments to disk layout suggestions. Dual booting fine. 3. Upgrade W98SE to W2K no good due to "cant find NT Loader on boot up". I've never tried this particular upgrade before so this could be par for the course. 4. Installed NT4 on 1st partition by first *removing* the partition completely. 5. Upgraded NT4 to W2K Much to my surprise my box then rebooted to ORIGINAL coolie SuSE OS selector screen. Just thought some of you might benefit from this experience, I did! As soon as I figure out how to get my winmodem working under linux the world will be a happy place again. Bill
Forgot this useful one.... List of commands from Linux in a Nutshell: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/
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