[KS] wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get > some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. > [...]
I've spent a lot of money - too much - on a tall stack of beginner's/intermediate guides to Linux. If I were to have to do it all over again, I would spend my money on the following three and leave it at that. Short book: 1. Daniel J. Barett: Linux Pocket Guide, 190 p. (O'Reilly, 2004) An excellent, judicious selection of the most essential knowledge about Linux. Gets you up to speed fast. Intermediate size book: 2. Brian Ward: How Linux Works, 347 p. (No Starch Press, 2004) An extremely well chosen selection of essential topics for beginning to intermediate Linux users, extremely well presented. A pleasure to read. Big book: 3. M. Welsh, M.K. Dalheimer, T. Dawson, L. Kaufman: Running Linux, 4th ed., 672 p. (O'Reilly, 2003), new edition due in December 2005? Perhaps the best all round generic introduction to Linux; it's got high marks from practically everyone (some refer to it as the "gold standard" by which all other Linux intros are to be measured). I would also second some of the other recommendations made here: 4. Paul Sheer: Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition, 630 p. (Prentice Hall, 2002) Also available for free as downloadable pdf or html files from http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz Excellent. Focusses almost exclusively on using the command line. Parts are somewhat dated. 5. Mark Sobell: A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux - Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 2nd ed., 1090 p. (Prentice Hall, 2005) One of the best intros to Linux, solid, thorough, didactically sound, and readable, and it's not just for Red Hat or Fedora. Finally, if you don't want to spend any money, there is the excellent "Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide" by Machtelt Garrels, also mentioned here and available for free in html or pdf format from http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/ or http://tldp.org/guides.html You can also buy this in a print edition (support the author). Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
