On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 00:28, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Red Hat 4? That book is _way_ out of date. Ignore anything it says about > graphical interfaces.
One of the best books I've found so far for familiarizing a newbie with Linux internals was, surprisingly enough, a Red Hat Certified Engineer Study Guide. In hardback, and originally 60 bucks (US$), I noticed that it was about two years old; however, the networking, X windows, and other basics that a newbie needs were all there, and not really that out of date. The content, and the presentation of the content was so well done, I was impressed. When I saw that the book was only 14 bucks (marked down at Books A Million), I said what the heck, I'll give it a read. I've got people that are interested in Linux here, but could never point them to a really decent and cheap book till I saw that one. I wasn't disappointed, either; first impressions turned out to be good after a deeper look. The book had good technical pointers on Linux basics that would be of great use to both beginners and some experienced users. It came with a CD that runs you through some tests, which I haven't checked out yet. It's the RHCE study guide by Dave Egan, published by Osborne/McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-212155-6. > You should install both so that you can use apps from both environments. KDE > apps will work in GNOME and vice-versa. With both installed, you can try them > and see for yourself. Any "X is better than Y" argument is bound to be very > subjective. > > I strongly suggest that you install Mandrake 9.0 (to be released next month). > The versions of GNOME and KDE included in Mandrake 9.0 are _far_ better than the > ones in 8.2. > > Also remember that there are dozens of other environments out there, including > Enlightenment and XFce, to name only a few. > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan Shameless plug for Enlightenment ! (With KDE app support enabled...) HTH, LX
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