(OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread [KS]
Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is curious to start learning Linux usage. He emailed to know

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread mikepolniak
On 11:09 Mon 31 Oct , [KS] wrote: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is curious to

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread John Purser
On 10/31/05, [KS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is curious to

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 31-okt-2005, at 17:09, [KS] wrote: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is curious to start

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:09 -0500, [KS] wrote: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Look at 'Linux administration and beginner's guide' (2nd Edition), S. Shah, McGraw-Hill is a good starter. -ishwar On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: John Purser wrote: One thing I've found to be very helpful is to get a distribution specific or at least friendly manual to begin

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* [KS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Oct 31 10:15 -0600]: He wants a user oriented book rather than one focusing on administration. Also I think it should be a general one rather than for a specific distribution. Perhaps a trip to the bookstore and checking out some titles might be in order. I

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread Robert Glueck
[KS] wrote: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. [...] I've spent a lot of money - too much - on a tall stack of beginner's/intermediate guides to Linux. If I were to have to do it all over again, I would

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

2005-10-31 Thread Robert Glueck
Correction: Paul Sheer's RUTE book is now at http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]