By way of plugging local vendors, my fave is The Book Mark on Olive Street.
They are locally-owned, friendly, and will order anything they do not have
in stock. They also carry this strange magazine called '2600', which, of
course, I never buy... ;-)
IMO, Linux is all about fighting the Evil Empire. Also IMO, B&N and Borders
are part of that Empire. In the spirit of the season, vote with your $$ -
support your local vendors! Don't give in to the dark side...
Peace,
Chuck
At 10:48 AM 11/6/00 -0800, Kent Loobey wrote:
>I am currently reading "Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide" by Steve
>Shah. The author states 'What the title should say is that it's a
>"beginners-to-Linux guide," because we do make a few assumptions about you,
>the reader.' Anyway I'm not quite half way through it and I find it the
>best book I have read on Linux so far. It is part of Osborne's Network
>Professional's Library series. I got my copy at Borders or Barns and
>Nobel, I don't remember which. They had one copy left.
>
>Inside the front cover the book lists that you can learn to:
>
>Install Red Hat Linux,
>Set up GNOME and KDE,
>Replace Windows with Linux,
>Add users,
>Work from the UNIX command line,
>Add a disk,
>Create a boot script,
>Work with LILO,
>Establish file system quotas,
>Use Syslog, the system logger,
>Secure your server,
>Understand networking fundamentals,
>Set up a primary DNS server,
>Configure an anonymous FTP server,
>Quickstart a Web server,
>Understand the differecnes between SMTP and POP,
>Get secure access to your server,
>Share a disk with your network via NFS,
>Set up a network-wide password file with NIS,
>Set up a Linux to replace Windows NT,
>Print to a Windows NT printer,
>Make it easy to join the network with DHCP,
>Handle backups,
>Set up route tables in Linux,
>Set up IP masquerading,
>Configure a firewall,
>Create settings in /proc,
>Compile the kernel for yourself,
>Use the development tools included with RedHat Linux
>
>Of course you will need to check it out for yourself to know if it
>addresses your needs and style...
>
>At 03:29 PM 11/5/00 -0800, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Does anybody have any recommendations for Linux books? I've flipped
>>through "Running Linux" and I think I'd like to get something a bit more
>>advanced. Also, I'm running Redhat linux. If there are any books that
>>are specific to Redhat that people recommend, I'd like to hear about those
>>too.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Ryan
>>
>
