[Wiltshire] Wiltshire Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1

[Andrew Carter]

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>    1. Introduction to Linux (John Larkworthy)
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> From: John Larkworthy <john_larkworthy at yahoo.co.uk>
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> I have been contacted by an Engineer who is using SUSe Linux at their
>  office and would like to know more about the distro.
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> Can anyone suggest a few good books on Linux and in particular SUSE linux?
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> Cheers and thanks for any suggestions.
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> John.
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> From: Simon Iremonger <wiltslug at iremonger.me.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Wiltshire] Introduction to Linux
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> > I have been contacted by an Engineer who is using SUSe
> > Linux at their office and would like to know more about
> 
> I did look at it many years ago and didn't like it.
> It seems to have an awful lot of patches and custom changes
>    over-and-above what Debian type seem to... I found it to
>    be buggy and breakable... at the time!  But I'm sure
>    there are good points...
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> > Can anyone suggest a few good books on Linux and in
> > particular SUSE linux?
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> I have a 'suse linux professional 9.1' userguide and
>    Administration guide you are welcome to if you want it.
> I'm not sure how good they are as beginners' guides....
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> > Cheers and thanks for any suggestions.
> > John.
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> --Simon
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Books on SUSE/openSUSE.

Beginning SUSE Linux, Thomas, Apres
Suse Linux, Brown, O Reilly
openSUSE Linux Unleashed, McCallister, Sams
SUSE Linux for Dummies, Barkakati
Linux Bible, Negus, Wiley

I must have tried maybe 2 dozen different distro's over the years, I even 
tried that brown thing, whose colour matched it's performance $#!+ but have 
settled on openSUSE, my best Linux experience by far.

Andy