[Lancaster] Re: Books on Linux

Ken Hough kenhough at uklinux.net
Mon Jun 7 18:20:28 BST 2004


Max,

"Teach Yourself Linux" was reviewed in the July 2004 edition of Linux 
Magazine. No date was given for the book. I assume it's a recent 
publication.

Ken Hough

max wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm thinking of ordering these recommended books at the library - being 
> possibles for beginners (who I reckon are the ones most likely to look in a 
> library rather than the net when wanting to find out about FLOSS/GNU/Linux).
> 
> Tim, how old/new are these?
> 
> 
>>Linux Complete, Pub by Sybex, cheap paper, 950 pages, £14.99
>>ISBN 0-7821-4036-X
>>
>>Running Linux, Pub by O'Reilly, better paper, 650 pages, $44.95
>>ISBN 0-596-00272-6
> 
> 
> and Ken, same question for:
> 
> 
>>"Teach Yourself Linux", Robert Billing, Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 
>>ISBN 0-340-81204-4, £8.99
> 
> It would be good to get as up to date as possible, since these books are going 
> to  be on the shelves for a few years to come ;-)
> 
> Max
> 
> 
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