I remeber someone here was looking for a realy good apt/dpkg guide...
I ran across this one while keeping up with www.debianplanet.org
http://www.egroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html
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I have found that the Idiot/Dummy books go out constantly in our library.
Personally, I've read a few of them and they always left me with more
questions than they answered. However, for the very basic non-computer person
- they seem to love them.
I did enjoy the dog training for Dummies book -
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:46:38AM +, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:03:50PM -0600 or thereabouts, ktb wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:34:48AM -0800, RobertWichert wrote:
> > > Speaking of books...
> > > Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7? I have Linux 7
> >
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:03:50PM -0600 or thereabouts, ktb wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:34:48AM -0800, RobertWichert wrote:
> > Speaking of books...
> > Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7? I have Linux 7
> > installed, but it seems to be just different enough from 6 that the s
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:07:08 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>Yes, I had chosen a few O'Reilly books- especially ones on learning Linux,
>and one on learning networking for beginners... but are the Idiot/Dummy
>books any good? I've never looked at them before in any detail. From a brief
>glance t
Yes, I had chosen a few O'Reilly books- especially ones on learning Linux,
and one on learning networking for beginners... but are the Idiot/Dummy
books any good? I've never looked at them before in any detail. From a brief
glance they looked a bit unorganized.
~Melanie
2000 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Re: Computer Books
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:34:48AM -0800, RobertWichert wrote:
> > Speaking of books...
> >
> > Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7? I have Linux 7
> > installed, but it seems to be just different enough from
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:34:48AM -0800, RobertWichert wrote:
> Speaking of books...
>
> Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7? I have Linux 7
> installed, but it seems to be just different enough from 6 that the step
> by step instructions (yes, I am new to Linux) for 6 are not enough
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> > Speaking of books...
> >
> > Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7? I have Linux 7
> > installed, but it seems to be just different enough from 6 that
t one).
- Kath
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From: "RobertWichert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [techtalk] Re: Computer Books
> Speaking of books...
>
> Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7?
Speaking of books...
Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7? I have Linux 7
installed, but it seems to be just different enough from 6 that the step
by step instructions (yes, I am new to Linux) for 6 are not enough to
get me going. I think the easy way out is to buy the high priced
vers
For German Debian users, there's an extremely handy book by Peter
Ganten, and another one just out by Frank Roenneburg, which is
included on one of the Lehmanns distribution CDs.
As far as I recall, O'Reilly announced somewhere on their website
that the X book isn't going to be published after a
re: debian books..
actualy looking at the ones in english:
(they are all avail online except for sams)
newriders:
http://www.newriders.com/debian/html/frames/
linuxpress:
http://www.linuxpress.com/books.html
oreilly:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html
oreilly is the only on
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:10:49PM -0800 or thereabouts, Raven ex Machina wrote:
> Heya --
>
> Quoth Tesla:
> > "A decent book about networking" which would help me understand the
> > difference between TCP and UDP and why I should care, and how all
> > this stuff relates to my husband's firewall
Heya --
Quoth Tesla:
> "A decent book about networking" which would help me understand the
> difference between TCP and UDP and why I should care, and how all
> this stuff relates to my husband's firewall rules. ("Why can't I get
> the time though that network time thingy?" "Because the firewall
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:35:18AM -0700 or thereabouts, mc wrote:
> I have to disagree on the home network part. Sharing resources at home,
> especially when more than one person wants the internet connection is
> becoming "the thing to do." The list of how to's available on the web is
Yes. I
mc wrote:
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> I would like to see some security books at the library. Now that is
> something more people need to read up on.
>
> mc
Any library worth its salt takes book requests. Few libraries have computer
experts on staff that can recommend proper computer materials for their
patro
books at the library. Now that is
something more people need to read up on.
mc
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> Thanks(: I'll keep all of your i
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> Thanks(: I'll keep all of your ideas in mind, although I do think that I'll
> shy away from Uber-technical books because I'm sure that anyone who would
> REALLY be interested in reading them will already be able to buy them. I
> might go for a more technical HTML/Ap
Thanks(: I'll keep all of your ideas in mind, although I do think that I'll
shy away from Uber-technical books because I'm sure that anyone who would
REALLY be interested in reading them will already be able to buy them. I
might go for a more technical HTML/Applets/Servlets(sp?:) book because ppl
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