Recommend a good Linux book
 

Looking to expand knowledge on Linux as I've always been a dabbler with it rather than a full on user.

Not really looking for a "how to set up a nix webserver" or "how to set up a nix media sever" more of a glossary of commands with examples or reason by each one something akin to that, reference book perhaps.

Quick story;

When I was young and eager my mum bought me a book, Unix System V Release 4: The Complete Reference from a bootsale as she "knew I was keen on computer stuff"

I laughed at the book and went back to my Windows 95 screen, I'd never touched (or heard of) linux back then, a few years later when I tried redhat 7.2 for the first time I dug that book out and it helped immensely, most of the commands still worked! Still read that book now, though very old and based on pure unix most of the commands still stand today and find it still a good reference.

Thanks all,

It depends on what you're looking to do with it, there's a difference between users and sysadmins. As a first stop, you can try http://www.tldp.org/guides.html, they have more detail than the howto's and there's something for most people there.

cheers

You can look at some of the o'reilly books.

Hi.
With a month subscription to http://my.safaribooksonline.com/home you can preview all their books (as well as many others), and hold the complete content of up to 10 in "slots". If you like O'Reilly products and are comfortable reading on a screen, this is an inexpensive introduction (~ $25 for a month ) to see how you really like their books. There's a free 10-day trial. Of all their books, I found only one that got a bad review and one other that I didn't like.

You could then buy their books or continue to "rent" them via Safari.

My experience was that it was a really good reference resource, but I didn't like reading from a screen.

Good luck ... cheers, makyo

Here are a couple that have helped me
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154493/
http://www.slackbook.org/html/index.html

Best wishes!

Garrels's Introduction to Linux at the link kbp posted is excellent.

I downloaded the *.pdf. A printed copy sits on the bookshelf behind me.

Neither do I ;)

The first book I read on the subject was Matt Walsh's "Running Linux". Unfortunately, there hasn't been a new edition since '05.

Hi,

You could look at 'Linux Books & Online Magazines' section of Slackware®-Links.

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We Know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."- Samuel Johnson

You could try http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
Also, there's a load of (free to read) books/manuals here www.linuxtopia.org at various levels.