[Scottish] Hopeless newbie charges on

Kyle Gordon kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com
Mon Sep 5 20:32:07 BST 2005


On Monday 05 Sep 2005 16:50, Steve Logan wrote:
> Flushed with my success earlier today (thank-you folks) I think I'll try
> a bit harder to get into this Linux malarkey.
>
> So - do you have any recommendations for a good not-quite-eedjit book
> for introducing a moderately expert Windows user to SuSE?  My background
> is engineering and programming rather than networks.  However I have
> built a number of PCs and networks and am (touch wood) not too bad at
> the hard techy stuff.  It seems to me that there's a different mindset
> that Windows folks needs to be learn to get around a Linux box?  Any
> book recommendations then?
>
> Ta
>
> Steve
>
> (PS I like books cos I can read them on a train).

I can highly recommend Samba-3 By Example, by John H Terpstra ISBN 0131472216

I got mine for $45 at Powells Technical Bookstore last year, but it may be 
cheaper elsewhere. John H Terpstra is one of the co-founders of Samba, so he 
knows what he's on about :-)

Kyle
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