[HLUG] Good Linux Books

[Peter Linnell]

Ref Linux books;
Teach yourself Linux; very good explanatory text in hard copy format; 
includes comprehension test questions to ensure you are keeping up!

Also RUTE; Root User Tutorial and Exposition available as a download and 
often included in magazine discs, fully cross refferenced HTML document.

Share and Enjoy!
Pete

AT Ege wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> 
>>Just wondering, are there any books that you'd recommend for someone 
>>relatively new to Linux (i.e. me) that goes into everything from file 
>>copy operations to networking ?
>>
> 
> I'm afraid, I had a german beginners book, which didn't help me too much 
> anyway, I can't be too much of a help.
> I actually learned most of my (basic) linux knowledge via internet.
> 
> But there's one book I can definitely recommend as a good reference book 
> is Linux in a nutshell, O'Reilly publishing. It's got real good overview 
> over the most common commands (essentially the man pages), info about 
> bootloaders (grub, lilo & loadlin), a bit about bash, csh, tcs, emacs, 
> vi, vim, sed, gawk and a bit about KDE, GNOME and fvwm2 as well as 
> RedHat and Debian package managers (talking about the 4th edition).
> 
> 
>>Cheers
>>
>>Rob
>>
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