Quoting Alan Yaniger, from the post of Tue, 01 Mar: > "Linux Administration - A Beginner's Guide" by Steven Graham and Steve > Shah is aimed at "strong Windows users who know something about the > Windows networking environment" (from their intro). My copy is the third > edition, which is from 2003, so it's a little old. I'm not a system > administrator, I got it to fill in gaps in my knowledge. I found it useful.
I learned all that I know with my own two fingers and ten eyes, so I'm not really knowledgeable about which book is better, however from some online searching I see most fingers (and Amazon reviews and sales rank) pointing at Linux in a nutshell: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut4/ Contents include: * Programming, system administration, networking, and user commands with complete lists of options * GRUB, LILO, and Loadlin bootloaders * Shell syntax and variables for the bash, csh, and tcsh shells * Pattern matching * Emacs, vi, and vim editing commands * sed and gawk commands * The GNOME and KDE desktops and the fvwm2 window manager * Red Hat and Debian package managers And if I'm not mistaken, an older edition of it was even translated to Hebrew (heaven forbid). What's more, I think there's an Israeli importer of O'Reiley that sells books at discount to members of Hamakor. I can't remember the name at the moment (they were the ones who gave away the prize books at AP3 if memory serves). I think I'll buy one even if to use as a loan copy to all the firends I'm trying to convert :) -- The greatest story ever told Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
