On 1/9/06, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Jon Drews wrote: > > Came across this while looking for info: > > > > Free linux books > > http://www.techbooksforfree.com/linux.shtml > > Thanks, Jon. > > One of the questions I'm often asked is, what book I would recommend > for a newbie to linux? I had a look through the list and didn't see > anything that was a good start for a newbie.
I would say the best one for a Linux newcomer is this one (available at the St. Louis Public Library): Learning the UNIX Operating System, Fifth Edition by Jerry Peek, Grace Todino-Gonguet, John Strang It's an O'Reilly book. The next place I would go (online) is to Dru Lavigne's tutorials: FreeBSD Basics http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15 Yes I know that it is FreeBSD and not Linux but the tutorials on utilities like find, file, cut, uniq, cal, sort etc are excellent. Here are the titles of some of the tutorials that would be useful to a newcomer (IMHO): *Backing up Files with Tar *Finding Things in Unix *TCP Protocol Layers Explained *Understanding Unix Filesystems *Working With Text *Getting Cron to Do Our Bidding *An Introduction to Unix Permissions (parts 1 and 2) *Useful Commands Finally, for learning a shell or Bash, I highly recommend this book: KornShell Programming Tutorial (Hewlett-Packard Press Series) by Barry Rosenberg Again, this does not cover Bash but pedagogically it is far superior to the O'Reilly book on Bash. Most of the basic shell features (for loops, comparisons, conditionals are the same as Bash. You could consider Bash to be an improved Korn shell. -- Kind regards, Jonathan _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
