A good book to own & read

Running Linux 3rd Edition By Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dahheimer & Lar Kaufman Published by O'Reilly ISBN 1-56592-469-X This covers most situations every newbie may or could come across in their endeavours in using Linux, especially if your experience is in MS Windows range of os'es. Try it, it easy to understand and logically written. So many of the newbie to reasonably proficient user questions are in this book.