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01-07-2003, 02:25 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Earth
Distribution: Drak 9.0
Posts: 12
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Ready to buy GNU books, which ones?
I already have several guides, manuals and such,
but I want to know
from those who know,
what books do you mainly recommend for users of LiNIX desktops and servers.
If you could only have two, what two would you have?
Please don't give an opinion if you don't own or read any real reference books.
So far I have gotten everything from the LDP.
Thanks for helping me save time/money.

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01-07-2003, 02:28 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Perry, Iowa
Distribution: Mepis , Debian
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01-07-2003, 02:28 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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Running Linux from O'Reily Press
and my second choice wouldn't be a book but www.tldp.org with all the Howto's, etc.
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01-07-2003, 02:50 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Earth
Distribution: Drak 9.0
Posts: 12
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Thanks, I was leaning towards Oreilly.
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01-07-2003, 03:33 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Rome, Italy ; Novi Sad, Srbija; Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Ubuntu / ITOS2008
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Running Linux by O'reilly
Also Linux in a Nutshell by O'reilly, but not as good, because it is a reference of linux commands plus some good sections on Vi and Emacs.
HTH
_NSKL
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01-07-2003, 05:23 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: The next brick house on the right.
Distribution: Kubuntu 18.04, Bodhi 5.0
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Both Running Linux and Linux In A Nutshell are great, and complementary books because of their different viewpoints of the same subject. One is more or less "process"-oriented, the other command-oriented.
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01-07-2003, 07:40 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Brisvegas, Antipodes
Distribution: Slackware
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The Linux Desktop Reference by Scott Hawkins is a good one, basicly every command with examples.
Published by Prentice Hall - http://www.phptr.com
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01-07-2003, 09:16 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 55
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Personaly i am using Osborne,
http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/007222505X.html
book,
Why dont you go to the nearest book shop, and pick on of the book with fits to you requirement...
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