On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Judy and Chris Beaudette wrote:
>
> greetings.
>
> i'm new to the newsgroup, and somewhat new to Linux. in fact, i'm so new,
> that i don't have linux installed yet! (have worked with it at work some,
> and have years of experience with other flavors of unix, but don't have it
> at home).
>
> in my searches for useful texts, i came across the following book:
>
> "LINUX -- Installation, Configuration, Use; 2nd ed."
> by Michael Kofler; Addison-Wesley Publishing
>
> the cool thing about this book is that it comes with a Red Hat 6.0 cd, all
> for $45, which i thought was pretty reasonable.
Eewwww....RedHat 6.0 was pretty much a nightmare. 6.2 is much better, and
freely downloadable, or available for $3 at www.cheapbytes.com. So the
book is what you're paying for here. Now, I haven't read this book, but if
there's one thing I've learned about buying books, it's that I first check
O'Reilly (www.ora.com), IF and only IF they do not have a book on the
subject will I go elsewhere. They happen to have a good book called
'Running Linux', I think it's now in its 3rd edition and I found the
original edition very helpful when I started with Linux. (DISCLAIMER: yes,
my name is in the book as I co-wrote the Alpha chapter, I don't get
royalties for it, so I'm not saying this just to get $$ from you buying
it).
--rdp
> questions:
>
> 1. does anyone out there have experience with this manual? if so, do you
> recommend it? do you advise against it??
>
> 2. if you advise against it, are there any good texts that you would
> recommend for installing, configuring, and using linux?
>
> 3. is it worth it to install red hat 6.0, considering it's now at 6.2?
>
> 4. would i be able to get a free upgrade to 6.2 if i install 6.0 from this
> cd?
>
> 5. do any red hatters out there know what this cd is likely to come with?
> for example, is there a "baseline" installation of red hat that this cd is
> likely to have? will it have apache web server? etc. etc.
>
> 6. finally, i'm considering installing linux/red hat/whatever on a pentium
> 100 w/ 48 MB ram and 1 GB disk space. i'd like to install apache and play
> around with it, but i don't know at this point if i'd actually use that
> machine to serve up a web site. (would have to consider firewalls, etc.,
> and it's way too early for that, for me, for now). is that a reasonable
> machine? (is the X-windows equivalent for linux a resource hog?)
>
> thanks!
>
> ~~crb
>
>
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