The "Idiot" book was a big surprize to me. I saw it today discounted at
12.50. With the KDE, dialup coverage, essential system tasks including
basics of customing the kernel I couldn't lose. Running Linux is good.
Sam
Bill Moshier wrote:
>
> I've found the "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh is an excellent book to both
> learn linux with, and to use as a reference when the usual problems arise.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul A. Bernicchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 6:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Book?
>
> I would recommend "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux" -- I don't have a
> ISBN or anything, but it's a very well-written book. Unfortunately, it
> concentrates on the Caldera distribution, but there are very few differences
> between that and Mandrake; and focuses mainly on KDE and basic commandline
> functions.
>
> It is part of the "Complete Idiots" series (a la '... for Dummies'). Even
> comes with StarOffice (as well as Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, which you can
> forget about) <g>
>
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shawn M. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pierce
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 7:39 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Book?
>
> What book does everybody recommend for running Red Hat/Mandrake, that also
> is more general to Linux as a whole. I just started learning this, and I
> need to find a good book.
>
> Shawn Pierce
