[Gllug] Flavours end - Linux begins?

[Jason Clifford]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Dermot Moynihan wrote:

> 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?

OK the first thing you need to remember is that the only real difference 
between most distributions is their own config tools.

All the distributions share the same basic system and all install pretty 
much the same software. Most configuration etc is of that software - the 
distro tools just present a unified interface for that (and SuSE's YaST 
does seem to be one of the better ones).

Any good Linux book should teach you much of what you need to know and so 
long as it is not based upon using a specific distro's management tools 
will help you with any Linux distribution.

You might even find it better value to buy a books or two second hand.

It's a long time since I bought a Linux book for myself so I am not well 
qualified to recommend one of the current batch. That said O'Reilly 
publish a book called "Running Linux" that offers a very good distro 
agnostic introduction to Linux.

Jason Clifford
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