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02-13-2005, 08:19 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: BC, Canada
Distribution: Debian 3.1 Sarge
Posts: 8
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What linux books helped you?
I bought Running Linux (4th ed.) by Matt Welsh a few months ago, and since yesterday started getting into it.
Some of the information is a little dated, but for the most part, the book is quite handy, provides some nice history along with the help necessary to do beginner-type tasks.
My question is, what are some of the books that have helped you get through your beginner phase? What are you reading now? What do you recommend? What are some of the things that you like about it?
Very curious as to what beginners find useful, since I am one myself.
Thanks,
-takt
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02-13-2005, 08:29 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: santa fe new mexico
Distribution: fedora core 3 /suse 9.1
Posts: 3
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the "for dummies" book.
it doesn't have alot of info, but if you need to find something fast it will probably have it.
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02-13-2005, 08:35 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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"Linux Maximum Security"
Cheers,
Tink
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02-13-2005, 08:35 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Pepperland
Distribution: Arch Wombat, FreeBSD Current, OpenBSD 3.7
Posts: 238
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Reading "Linux in a Nutshell" right now, I love it. I have no fear of a command line now.
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02-13-2005, 09:04 PM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Fedora Core 6
Posts: 76
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I just want to second the Linux in a Nutshell recommendation. It has a ton of useful information and it's fairly easy to find things. It isn't really a "read this cover to cover" book, it is more of a "I need to know about this command or tool right now" kind of book. It will be useful to you even after you leave the newbie stage.
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02-13-2005, 09:45 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: lost in the midwest...
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,098
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"Linux Cookbook" (o'reilly version...apparently theres another linux cookbook out there somewhere...) is an excellent reference book, with a ton of tips on how to do stuff whether you're just beginning, or if you've been at it awhile...
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02-13-2005, 10:07 PM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Torreón, Coahuila, México
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 342
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Once found this old tattered Linux 2nd edition book (or something like that) not bad, but totally outdated (worked with RH7). Also, for programming, Teach yourself C++ for Linux in 21 days.
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02-13-2005, 10:10 PM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Planet Earth
Distribution: Slackware, LFS
Posts: 561
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www.google.com the absolute best resource on earth no matter what the subject may be. 
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02-13-2005, 10:38 PM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Tinysofa Classic
Posts: 75
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Some of us can't carry google everywhere we go. :P
O'Reilly's books are good.
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02-14-2005, 02:33 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Egypt
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 1,528
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"Sams' Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours" was very good
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02-14-2005, 07:37 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Motherboard
Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux
Posts: 156
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02-14-2005, 07:43 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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Google, LQ, magazines e.g. Linux Format and Sybex Linux+ study guide.
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02-14-2005, 10:30 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Germany
Distribution: Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18
Posts: 103
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Hi,
I read the book "Linux Intern" and from my point of view it´s pretty good.
It explains step by step how Linux works.
What the kernel needs to boot-up,
it explains the several filesystems, and so on.
Greetz
GSX
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02-14-2005, 11:26 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Spain
Distribution: FC5
Posts: 1,993
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Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition
I'm reading the online edition, but I'm thinking of buying it.
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02-14-2005, 11:35 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Posts: 23
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i think this should be made into a sticky thread, it could be very helpfull
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