Hi, On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
Usually, I find your advice very usable, unfortunately not this time.
I just borrowed Linux for Dummies at a local library, and I was apalled at the errors and mistakes in the book. For instance in the description of the ls command, they insist on option 1 (number one) instead of l (letter L) for long format.
Even worse is, that they are probably not allowed to distribute the Linux Cd accompanying the book... Yes, it sounds strange that they should not be allowed, when all the rest of us are, but in their end user license agreement at the end of the book, they specifically FORBID ANY COPYING and REDISTRIBUTION of any material on the CD. And the GPL says that if you accept the GPL, you must follow the rules therein. If you do not follow those rules, you do not have any of the rights granted in the GPL.
I apologize. I must admit, that I've never looked in this book by myself. I just read about others recommending it to newbies, I've given up on reading books about Linux. They get obsolete so fast... ;-)
The other book, Running Linux, however is useful.
I'd like to add, that we also have a package "books", which contains a selection of Books in PostScript format, like "Linux Installation and getting started" - Matt Welsh, "Linux Network Administrators Guide" - Olaf Kirch and the "Linux Users Guide" - Larry Greenfield. Bye, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>