[KLUG Members] Re: Books to learn from

[Paul VandenBosch]

Taz;

It really depends on your experience level.  I was very frustrated with
OReilly books as a beginner, because they assume that you know the system
to a certain extent.  They are good reference books but not for beginners.
 I have "Learning Red Hat Linux" and "Running Linux", and I would not
recommend them to a beginner.

I decided to buy "Red Hat Linux for Dummies", there is a recent one out
for RH 8.0.  It is OK but it does not give much help on using the command
line, the focus is all GUI.  But it is much more helpful to me than any
other book I have seen.

I've read good things about this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067232458X/guidetosailingan/&ref=nosim

With regard promoting linux use in organizations, try showing what Open
Office (or other open source applications) can do.  Find out what the
budget is for updating the Windows Office suite and then have a working
example of OO to show to a manager.  The sysadmin will not be your ally,
he doesn't want to learn another system.  Go to whoever has control over
the budget and tell him how many $$$ Open Office could save.  This is a
way to get your foot in the door.

Taz said:
> Hi All,
>
> Just a question, or two, ;-), wife wanted to go to the mall this
> afternoon, and I went into the B&N store. Always to the same section,
> Linux. Got to looking at the titles and reading a bit about each of
> them, and seeing that I have finally put BS-Ware 8.0 #3 onto a machine (
> not this one, I explained to Ralph why) I came up with some interesting
> reading selections.
>
> "Official Red Hat Users Guide" Red Hat
>
> "Learning vi Edit(or)" O'Reilly
>
> "Effective awk Programming" O'Reilly
>
> "Running Linux" O'Reilly
>
> "Linux Server Hacks" O'Reilly
>
> "Sendmail" O'Reilly
>
> "Red Hat Linux 8" Sam's
>
> "Red Hat Linux 8 Bible" Wiley, and finally
>
> "Learning Bash Shell" O'Reilly
>
> Which would help me the most? the least? most interesting? most able to
> help others? most able to help other people to understand why linux is a
> better os than that other propietary junk?
>
> TIA
>
> Bruce
>
> P.S. I am _still _trying_ to get linux into the Comstock schools, but
> not having a very good shot at it. Still bending ears on linux here and
> there. The school IT was supposed to get back to me, but never did. The
> school board member was very put off by the answers that I received from
> the list. Any help is appreciated. But we have to keep it positive,
> positive, positive. I still don't know if I have it through to him or
> not that the programs that he wants to be able to run, will run with
> VMWare, for $300, per the system, _not_ per computer. Sometimes I feel
> like I'm fighting a losing battle. :-) Maybe until m$ comes in and tells
> them, like they did to the schools is Washington and Oregon last spring,
> then I can get somewhere. Be positive, Bruce, be positive. (That's to
> me, not the other Bruce guy, (Smith)).
>
>
>
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