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Old 02-06-2006, 06:14 AM   #1
jsmith6
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I am novice: which book should I read?


I am novice. I know only a few commands (less than 10).

I can go for a shiny distribution (Fedora, Suse, Mandriva/Mandrake) in my more recent hardware but I want to start things right. If I don't know how to handle things in the command line, then I do not know how to use Linux.

I am strugling with ZipSlack 10.2 (to avoid paritioning for now, and since I know I am going to mess the OS really often) on a Pentium3 FSB100 256RAM Voodoo3-3000. It's pretty fast.

Enough with my chatter, I want to read a book.

I have two choices, either I print (on my home printer) something that I will download, or I buy a book.

If I go print, then I can either print the official Slackware book (slackbook.org) or the LDP guide (en.tldp.org/guides.html) ("Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide").

If I go buy, then... I have no idea what book to get. I am not living in US/UK, so the options are limited. Thanks to online shoping, this wouldn't be a problem though. If printing is a lot cheaper than buying, then I will go print. Of cource, if I can find the official Slackware book then I would rather buy it no matter what (to ensure Slackware will continue).

I would like both kinds of opinions (print and buy). So... what do I read?
 
Old 02-06-2006, 06:54 AM   #2
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Slackware Bookstore (not sure about international shipping). I suggest the "Slackware Essentials" book

http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/s...QG3spL:mv_pc=8


Home printing of installation help:
http://slackware.com/install/


If you are not comfortable with commands, you might want to practice using ZipSlack or a run-from-CD linux like Knoppix. A small project like writing an inventory of your computer components or books and saving them into several small text files on a floppy disk may be helpful. View, edit, move, rename these files as practice.
 
Old 02-06-2006, 07:02 AM   #3
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slackbook

go through first post, of shilo. how do i do it all.
tehre is a link from bitbenders forum, from there u can start.
so now this is the only chance for u to try another distro... once u use slack u wil stick to it.

there is SlaX a live linux from slack, u can try that also best of luck and welcome to slack world
 
Old 02-06-2006, 07:29 AM   #4
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This book is a wonderful reference / guide:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxpg/
 
Old 02-06-2006, 07:31 AM   #5
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It may be a couple of years old, but the Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer. I bought a copy, but it is available for download. I found that between this one, the slackbook, and LQ.org, there isn't a lot I can't figure out.

By the way...slackware is the only way to go. All roads lead to slackware [and some gentoo]; I have never known any users who have used RedHat/Fedora or Mandrake for years and years without switching to something else.
 
Old 02-06-2006, 07:34 AM   #6
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You can also read slackersbible and slackbasics.

Last edited by Alien_Hominid; 02-06-2006 at 07:35 AM.
 
Old 02-06-2006, 01:21 PM   #7
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Hello-
I have been slowly working my way through a book that might be useful to you: "A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors and Shell Programming" by Mark G. Sobel. Here is where you can find it at Amazon : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/013...62336?n=283155
The book goes through the commands the way most guides I have seen do, and there is more specific/advanced information about command-line stuff and shell programming. These are the kind of things I think I will need to learn to "know Linux." Since most of the material is aimed at the shell, it is pretty distro-agnostic. Enjoy!
 
Old 02-06-2006, 01:27 PM   #8
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You guys are giving some real good advice! I wish i had started with Slackware instead of going the mandrake,suse,redhat,fedora,ubuntu,debian--> Slack way. Here's the link to Rute's btw http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
 
Old 02-07-2006, 10:35 AM   #9
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Thank you, all.

For some time now, all my sincere efforts to enter Linux (and leave Windows) have been overrun by frustration.

I have already tested Fedora 3, Mandriva 2005, Suse 10, and Ubuntu 5.10 (all in my more recent hardware) since April 2005, but something didn't felt right. All these distributions did things on the background, which is good for a novice like me, but somehow I wasn't feeling comfortable with this. I wanted to start learning from ground up.
 
Old 02-07-2006, 11:04 AM   #10
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spaceballs
It may be a couple of years old, but the Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer. I bought a copy, but it is available for download. I found that between this one, the slackbook, and LQ.org, there isn't a lot I can't figure out.
I agree 100% with Spaceball's recommendations.

I would only mention that for something more portable that Rute's I would add O'Reilly's Linux Pocket Guide By Daniel J. Barrett ISBN: 0-596-00628-4.

If you want to learn, Slackware is definitely the right distro for you.

Regards,

dkpw

Last edited by dkpw; 02-07-2006 at 11:06 AM.
 
  


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