How big is it Chris (the book I mean)
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 00:06, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> 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
