[KLUG Members] Re: Books to learn from

[Dirk Bartley]

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 21:21, Taz wrote:
> 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

Good if you plan on using vi alot, otherwise get the pocket reference.

> 
> "Effective awk Programming" O'Reilly

Do you plan on using awk.  It is capable and simpler than perl, but it
is no perl.  Perl was written to combine sed and awk and more.  Perl is
more capable, higher learning curve.

> 
> "Running Linux" O'Reilly

Borrow it from the library.  The library is probably one edition older.
> 
> "Linux Server Hacks" O'Reilly
> 
> "Sendmail" O'Reilly

You want to learn quasi-inverse-reverse-sendmail-programming.  I'll let
you look at mine for a meeting and you will never want to open it again.
> 
> "Red Hat Linux 8" Sam's

Good book if you want something that covers a little bit of everything. 
Good for reference, unfortunately upgrades keep happening.
> 
> "Red Hat Linux 8 Bible" Wiley, and finally
> 
> "Learning Bash Shell" O'Reilly

Piesta la resistance, if you plan on living on a shell like I did.

> 
> 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?

It depends on your objective.

Dirk
> 
> 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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