Fwd: Re: [Lancaster] Taking the lug forwards.

[Martyn Welch]

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Doh!

Prepared a tinyurl and all!

http://tinyurl.com/22qky

Martyn

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On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 14:19, max wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 2:08 pm, Martyn Welch wrote:
> > Hi Max,
> >
> > You might want to concider reading this before approaching the library, I
> > think that it is very relevant to the CD case.
>
> ok - but what? :-)
>
> > As for books, I find them hard to purchase for Linux. The guides to a
> > specific versions of Linux are rather useless after months, the more
> > indepth books on certain subjects, whilst more useful in the long run are
> > near useless to complete newcomers and often a distros GUI configuration
> > app won't parse hand edited config files, leading to lost settings.
>
> yep - that's why i haven't done it yet. but everytime i look at the
> computer section i ask myself what somebody (who hasn't got a fat internet
> connection) would want to read if they wanted to know about linux. it would
> be lovely to have that kind of book there. but what is that book?
>
> i'm hoping llugers will have some suggestions - anybody?
>
> of course you're right about the book being out of date so quickly. we
> could get round that to an extent by ordering one book every year...
>
> in the meantime if anyone has any suggestions for good linux paper books,
> i'd be very happy to go and donate my 70p to lancs libraries.
>
> ,m
>
> > Martyn
>
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Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)

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