On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
> > On the other hand there is nothing better than a recently burned > writable CD when you want it really uptodate and like being on the > edge. But for the same price anybody could get a CheapBytes CD and > a very good Linux book. Anybody has bought the new "Linux in a ^^^^^^^^^^ > Nutshell" from O'Reilly? A really nice and useful book IMHO! ^^^^^^^^ I have the UNIX in a Nutshell book (Sys V and Solaris release). Other than a rather sneaky marketting ploy by O'Reilly (No, not all their books are up to snuff... if you want a case and point check out their C++ manuals or the GNU Utilities book, which is basically a reprint of stuff in a lot of other books) I see no reason why there ought to be another one of these quick ref manuals for Linux. The dozen or so commands that are different from Sys V and the lpr system are not worth whatever amount of money it is to get another book if you already own a the UNIX book, and although Linux newbies might benefit from the quick reference, often I think the man pages are much better. (That is, if you have man installed and working properly :) ) For the same money I'd get the Matt Welsh Running Linux book, which is in a 2nd edition and a lot of fun to read. Larry Wall's Perl book seems to be becoming the "next" K&R, being popular amongst all programmers. The O'Reilly Xlib books need a heavy update (they should merge the R6 release notes into the books..). They are the most thorough, but don't seem to adress many of the modern tools for X GUIs, but I digress... Perhaps someone should convince them to write a chapter about Debian in one of their Linux boooks? After all, Debian, being a total volunteer effort and having been sanctioned by FSF ought to be mentioned... (Running Debian Linux?) Will -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]