On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:45, Sascha Beaumont wrote: > Don Gould wrote: > | bb. Books. > | > | I have read just about every book in the public library on Linux now. > | > | I have found most to be very shallow with 3 or less pages on any one > | subject. Most are nothing more than a copy of the man pages rewritten > | to make less sense than the orginal. > | > | Very few include real world ilistration. > > Thinking about books, and what ones I started with many many years back > when I learnt to use linux I would probably have to concede that you're > right. > > 95% of what I learned was on the job when I began a job doing some PHP > programming, I had to learn to use linux. I'd used it a little before, > dabbled here and there just playing around but there is no replacement > for on the job experience. Watching others who know what they're doing, > etc. > > For a decent book, go have a read of RUTE, which can be found freely > online at http://rute.sf.net/ - I beleive from memory we had a large > discussion on this list last year which ended up in a few people on this > list either ordering or printing copies. (let us not revisit the > printing a copy for others debate) > > If you were to sit down and read it cover to cover, you'd have a pretty > damn good understanding of linux. Its well worded, and has plenty of > cross referencing links in the online version so you can jump around to > your hearts content. > > My suggestion, if you haven't already have a read of it. The South African site is as slow as a wet week. Local NZ only mirror on the end of my cable wire at:- http://berty.dyndns.org/rute/ I'm in the process of making a word index of it using ht://Dig Ready by next week. I hope that if hosting it proves to be beyond my bandwidth allowance that it could be hosted elsewhere.
Overseas list members should go to the original:- http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
