Recommended Books???
I think I looked everywhere that I could to find people's recommendation on Linux books. I found little to no information, and me... I like knowing what I'm getting into before I go tearing into an Operating System. Anyone have any good recommendations out there?
I'll be using the Mandriva flavor of Linux. :) Just sounds tastey. |
Hi, and welcome to linuxquestions :)
Try this for some reviews: http://www.linuxquestions.org/review...cat.php/cat/17 Also be aware that you can find alot of good docs online. Actually I prefer The Linux Documentation Project :) Check it out here...It's free :) http://www.tldp.org/ And picking Mandriva for a start is very good. It has a little bit of it all. Alot of GUI and still the advanced features. Have fun :) Regards, Jorgen |
if you are looking to do everyday tasks via the command line i reccoment the Linux cookbook 2nd edition. It covers playing mp3's from the command line, ripping music, editing files via nano and thing slike that. How to convert a batch of jpg images to png. Some command line email clients and things.
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Linux in a Nutshell--O'Reilly
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RUTE is another good book.
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Thanks all. Defintiely got what I wanted. Right now I am using the Linux Doc Project, and I have a hand-me-down of Unix in a Nutshell. Awesome stuff so far. Yeah, I want to go command line... I wanna stay command line, but I was told sticking to a gui first, and using the console in the OS is the best way to learn. That way if I make a minor mistake and need to exit, all I do is close out of console. :)
Thanks again all. PS - One last thing, I've been speaking to my Linux/Networking instructor and he pointed me to a lot of Red Hat documentation. I trust his judgement since he taught me a lot in the past, but what do you guys think about the Red Hat Bible? Worth investing in? |
Good book if you're using Red Hat or Fedora Core or even an RPM based distro. I would suggest reading non-distro specific books or books that cover a few different distros so you can get a feel for different distros. Even if you choose to start with Mandriva, you may find you like a different distro more.
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You're absolutely right. I changed to the Ubuntu distro, but Im having such a hard time imaging the ISO. I don't know where or how to start. Anyways, thanks on the book info, I went with the Online Tutorials that Anti.corp suggested. Good stuff that is definitely Instruction Booklet worthy.
Thanks again, all. Definitely helpin a new(B) out. |
One great thing about Ubuntu, is the community. You can check out their forums here and the Ubuntu forum here on LQ.
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