On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 00:52, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us > with: > > I haven't quite got the hang of how to install things on Mandrake. I > > downloaded the Starter Guide, but it is still like greek to me.
Be patient. With time, and with some effort, it will quickly begin to resemble not Greek, but Esperanto. :*) > Several books that I have used include: > LINUX: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE, 5/E > THE LINUX COOKBOOK > LINUX ETUDES > RUNNING LINUX I'll second the recommendation for "Running Linux," which I'm currently working my way through. At times it gets a little heavy or technical for a casual user, but on the whole it does a pretty good job of explaining basic concepts in an understandable manner. RUTE is also good. That said, I still know /so/ little ... yet, it's volumes more than I knew 5-6 weeks ago. Some problems I've been able to figure out on my own, others with the patient help of those here in this group, and others I still don't understand well enough to tackle ... those I've put aside for a later time when, hopefully, things will have "fallen into place" for me and they'll be a piece of cake. :-) > One of the problems with Linux books is there current-ness. Many books offered > are way out of date. Mandrake is very similar to Red Hat, so a current Red > Hat book could be a good buy. But don't leave us, as there is alot of useful > stuff that is not documented in books, that only we Mandrake folks know > about. I'd also recommend -- being somewhat of a miser myself, and on a very limited income at the moment -- checking out the used book sources (such as Amazon, or perhaps http://www.bookfinder.com). That's what I did a few weeks back when I was first getting my Linux feet wet, and managed to pick up like-new, current editions of "Running Linux," "Linux Desk Reference," and "Linux in a Nutshell" for around $50 total, S&H included. > And the pundits that talk about how linux is not ready for the desktop have no > idea what they are talking about. Linux has been ready for this desktop for > the last 4 years. I run a 100% MS free PC. My processor has never seen MS > code. Linux is certainly ready for the desktop ... I would, however, say that most (more casual) users are not ready for Linux. :-) -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 00:57:12 up 17 min, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.19, 0.17 Given sufficient time, what you put off doing today will get done by itself.
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