On Wed, 26 May 2004 07:28, Nick Rout wrote: > How big is it Chris (the book I mean)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] chris $ du /var/www/localhost/htdocs/rute/ -s --si 4.6M /var/www/localhost/htdocs/rute/ 630 Pages incl. index Word for word .pdf file available at:- http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/rute.pdf.bz2 Word for word .html file available at:- http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2 Copying licence at:- http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/copying.html.gz errata at:- http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/rute-errata.html > 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 -- 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.
