[Gllug] Flavours end - Linux begins?

[Dermot Moynihan]

I'm trying to get together some books to assist me in learning LINUX. The 
version I have is SUSE 8.1. However, I can find no books specific to 
that.  I find the SUSE manuals of some use but they don't go into stuff in 
enough detail for me.
What I need to know is, if, for instance, I get a QUE book, "Using Linux, 
Special Edition, 6th ed."  which has blurb on the cover referring to 
"Configure Red Hat Linux, Caldera Open Linux and Debian GNU/Linux" will I 
learn anything about Linux per se? I don't want to waste £33 on a book that 
I will learn little from. As a beginner it's difficult to know just from 
browsing in the shop whether it will be of any use to me or not. Maybe 
somebody could even recommend a book?
I know this is difficult if you haven't got the book I've mentioned, so 
maybe a better question would be: Where do all the different flavours leave 
off and where does Linux itself actually begin?
Thanks for any pointers
Dermot


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