>From the dark side:
Hmmm, I didn't vote for Nader either. I guess were all going to hell.
At 06:08 PM 11/7/00 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>>>
>>
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