Heck, people just might pay you to ask questions like that.
IMHO, the biggest thing Fedora has going for it (perhaps the
only thing
) over other Linux distros is the sheer number of books written about it. (My biases are showing -- I'm a big fan of KDE and Debian.) As a matter of fact, given the absence of books written about other Linux distros, I've used books written about Fedora as general Linux references.
Here are the three books I'd recommend. All three include Fedora on CD.
For beginners, O'Reilly's
Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora and Sam's
Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux Fedora in 24 Hours both give good overviews of Fedora and sort of hold your hand through the entire installation and initial learning process. The Sams book will give you more of a taste of what you can do with Linux than the O'Reilly book; the O'Reilly book goes a bit further into various installation options than does the Sams book. Although neither book goes into much depth, they're both pretty well done.
For a comprehensive book about Fedora -- from beginner to intermediate and some advanced stuff -- the
Red Hat Fedora Linux 3 Bible by Christopher Negus is very good. (And he recently came out with a useful-looking book entitled
Linux Troubleshooting Bible, which centers on Fedora...with tiny sections on SuSE and Debian in the back. Quote: "Debian users seem to like reading
man pages." Well, no we don't, Christopher; why don't you write a "Debian Bible"? I'd buy it in a heartbeat.)
