On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:31, Ralph Stoker wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good Linux for beginners book?
To get a handle on being the 'root' user:- Linux : rute user's tutorial and exposition / Paul Sheer. One copy in the Public Library. Available from Amazon ~$NZ70 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130333514?v=glance Book text available off WWW also:- http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz ( You'll need to use Firefox or Konqueror for the page as IE cannot cope with gzipped html pages. ) It's also available as bzipped archives:- http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/rute.pdf.bz2 http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2 It's in urgent need of a second edition, but even so it's 600 pages of really solid command line stuff, written in comprehensible English too! The LINUX NEWBIE ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE is available from:- http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/ Links for many file formats on that URL. For more HOWTOs than you will ever need go to:- http://www.tldp.org/ Don't forget you can put a hash symbol ( # ) into the Konqueror location bar to access the unix manual pages, or two hashes for the info system. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
