Thanks for the info one and all. There is a great deal of stuff out there and it takes an age to filter out the wheat from the chaff.... I have been to the library and taken the occasional book out but found that they were either too simple (focused on the use of an application within a distro) or else too complex (code to the max)...
Cheers Ralph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Sawtell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 1:33 PM Subject: Re: Dial-up question > 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
