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DwarfBaby
10-18-2001, 11:16 PM
Ok I know this has been asked before but the search takes 10 minutes and every time I hit the back button mozilla resends the search.
Anyways I have three books on linux and all suck. What I want is a book that explains Linux from scratch. Explains fully about different users, root, commands, Packages,compilers and how everyting works together. What I don't want is a book that explains how to install linux, make it look pretty, and has two or three chapters devoted to RPMs. Basicly I want a book written by an anal geek that hasn't scored in a decade. It can't be to tough though I'm still a newbie, kind of.
X_console
10-19-2001, 12:29 AM
Have you read Running Linux? That's a pretty good book. A lot about Linux such as users, root, commands, directories and such are the same in other UNIX operating systems. So consider buying a book on how UNIX works and that'll help you understand Linux as well. Also, try the HOW-TOs. They're all available online and there's a huge amount of them.
If you want to know how the Linux kernel works, pick up C programming and some Assembly, and then start reading the source code.
DwarfBaby
10-19-2001, 01:01 AM
I'll give it a read. I do have some C/C++ programming experience but only under MFC. Linux and Unix are still foreign at this point so I don't think I'd get much from the kernel at this point. Maybe in a few months when I get the concepts down. Thanks, any other suggestions I have a hundred burning a whole in my pocket. That should be about three books I just didn't want to spend it garbage. Thanks again :)
Choozo
10-19-2001, 02:58 AM
Linux Administration: a Beginners Guide (by Steve Shah) is also a book worth having close to the desk.
I have that one, and the Running Linux mentioned above, and find both very useful.
Cheers :)
DwarfBaby
10-19-2001, 03:27 AM
Actually I just bought Linux Administration A Beginner's Guide this morning at the Half Price book store. Once you get past chapter 4 it isn't too bad. Upon reading through the first 75 pages and not learning anything new I wrote this post, perhaps a little irritated from its lack of depth and detail. Everything after chapter five is vastly better though. I just wish every single linux book didn't have a how to install Red Hat 6.1 section.
Thanks for the advice I will definitly keep reading it.
As suggested, O'Reilly's Running Linux by Matt Welsh is a great reference. Unix Power Tools, also from O'Reilly, is another must-have (it'll burn more than half of that hundred in your pocket, thought).
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Already spent over $400 on Linux books, over 200 hours on the various Linuz forums. Got good feedback from singlespeed, gazoo and ipsider/ispider to name a few. The best recommendation so for is to get the book "Securing & Optimizing Linux: The Ultimate Solution". Though I am only up to page 45, it is well worth it. I have not yet received the hard bound but am working with the PDF I downloaded. For those of you/us NT, windoooze people who needs a setp-by-step intro to Linux.. get this book.