Good books for a linux newbie

Good books for a linux newbie

[Adam Luchjenbroers]

	I have a friend who has started using Linux, and has found its stability and 
reliability quite impressive. His one complaint is that the OS is unfamiliar 
to him.

	I told him I'd post here asking about books that may be of assistance to him. 
He is running Mandrake 9, and just wants to use it for word-processing, 
email, music, etc (average desktop user). Games aren't a big issue, but it 
would be good to help him with them too.

	So, what books do you recommend?

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Re: Good books for a linux newbie

[Brian P. Bilbrey]

On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 03:11, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote:
> 	So, what books do you recommend?

Dee-Ann LeBlanc wrote a good article with many useful book
recommendations on LinuxPlanet.Here's the link, check it out!

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4380/6/

HTH,

.brian

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Brian P. Bilbrey <bilbrey@orbdesigns.com>
Orb Designs

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Re: Good books for a linux newbie

[Michael Scottaline]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:41:44 +0930
Adam Luchjenbroers <Adam@Luchjenbroers.com> insightfully noted:

>
>	I have a friend who has started using Linux, and has found its stability and
>	
>reliability quite impressive. His one complaint is that the OS is unfamiliar 
>to him.
>
>	I told him I'd post here asking about books that may be of assistance to
>	him. 
>He is running Mandrake 9, and just wants to use it for word-processing, 
>email, music, etc (average desktop user). Games aren't a big issue, but it 
>would be good to help him with them too.
>
>	So, what books do you recommend?
==============================================
Running Linux by Welsh, Dalheimer, & Kaufman.  It's an O'Reilly publication
and I believe it is now in its 4th edition.

Mike

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Re: Good books for a linux newbie

[Peter]

Check

http://en.tldp.org/guides.html

There is an excellent book in html format: Introduction to Linux, A Hands on 
Guide

or

http://linux.nf  ( excellent SxS (step by step)written for newbies)


-- 
Peter

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RE: Good books for a linux newbie

[James Miller]

I've recently come across the "Linux: Rute User's Guide," which is also in
html (as well as downloadable in pdf). It is located at several site, e.g.
http://www.pucmmsti.edu.do/materias/fnunez/RUTE_TUT/RUTE.html or
http://www.intelinfo.com/sign-up/linux_rute_book.html (pdf at the homepage
at http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz ). I haven't had a
chance to really look through this book yet, so I can't give a ringing
endorsement. But it looks interesting.

James
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