Well Hello Linux Gurus,

Yes it is yet another Windows NetAdmin that has just built his first Linux box to venture down the road of RedHat and see if I might be able to get my hands around this OS.

I am in charge of building 2 Linux boxes for production to be clustered in a Win2K AD envornment. One will be an Oracle DB server and the other will be the Web interface running Apache. I thought to myself, I can figure this out. Since I enjoy what i do, I always love a new chalenge. Yeah well... "Not so much" would be a good way to describe how easy it is to tweak config one of these guys. And I am just speaking of a workstation.

I'll save the technical specific questions for other forums. The question I have here is can someone give me a good book to purchase for a Novice that is new to Linux? Like a Linux for dummies type read. I need a gentle introduction that will lead to more complex scenarios.

And no I've never worked with UNIX.

Thanks in Advance,
sko

hi

i would like to suggest two books from orielly

running linux
linux in a nutshell

check the guides and howto's in tldp.org for a start

regards
rahul sundaram

in addition to tldp.org, Rute's guide is great:
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz

and RH has extensive set of docs:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/

here's a site with some very basic howtos:
http://www.linuxbeginner.org/index.php

Thanks Much....I'll look into them.

sko

Personally, I like O'Reilly books. They give you the "meat" of linux, as opposed others that just show you how to use X and a few basic commands.

Essential System Administration from O'Rielly is a good start. I would also suggest a good book on Bash.

How about The Red Hat Bible ? Think they have a v.9.1 out now

linux administration handbook, Nemeth, Snyder, Hein, is also a good book, plus the oreilly books listed.

This may be rather dry, but it is available online (free) and is thoroughly comprehensive:

RUTE Linux textbook http://rute.sourceforge.net