Re: fedora books
On 1 December 2012 20:44, NOSpaze nosp...@gmail.com wrote:
You will not find a book about the features of some specific laptop
model, car model or mobile phone. The same with a distro. A car differs
to others basically in the way components are assembled. The same with a
distro. They both share the same components in essence.
What a bull$hit! Recently I've bought a laptop. It's packaged with a
book describing its characteristics. As for the car, you can easily
find what you're looking for in the nearest spare part shop.
Prooflink:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_scat_10534_ln?rh=n%3A10534%2Ck%3Arenaultkeywords=renaultie=UTF8qid=1354440890scn=10534h=1c9d67e5b015df9bb8b773740ed2495a85620674
A distro differ from others basically in directories organization and
some scripts. The rest is basically the same among others with the same
purpose (say, suse, debian, ubuntu). The best way to learn features of a
distro is using it with some purpose (ie. write a book, handle bank
accounts, play games). If you want to learn linux, the best kind of
books are the certification-oriented books.
Directories organization is not the main difference between distros. I
would mention deb/rpm/variants at the first place.
Agreed on certification books.
:)
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Re: fedora books
On 12/01/2012 06:37 AM, Brian West wrote: Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. each distribution has its own unique set of tools and features. being that fedora has been known since the beginning as a distribution that stays on the cutting edge giving its users the latest software what book would you suggest to ensure i can stay educated on fedora? You could do worse than take a look at Mark G. Sobell's 'A Practical Guide to Fedora Red Hat Enterprise Linux'. As with all Mr. Sobell's books, it's extremely well written, very readable will impart knowledge to even the most seasoned user. It currently ships with Fedora 15 on DVD so it's not quite cutting edge so to speak but then again, there ain't the market for producing a thousand page book every six months even if there were, I think you'd struggle to find an author willing to take the job on. I'd imagine Sobell will tackle Fedora again in the near future once the transition to the new filesystem all other additions are implemented but as to when that'll happen, you'd have to ask him (he's on Twitter). Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 6.3, Debian Squeeze Wheezy, Fedora Beefy Spherical, OS X Snow Leopard Ubuntu Precise Quantal 0xF9137B0F.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: fedora books
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 01:37:52 -0500, Brian West bionicfre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. each distribution has its own unique set of tools and features. being that fedora has been known since the beginning as a distribution that stays on the cutting edge giving its users the latest software what book would you suggest to ensure i can stay educated on fedora? When looking to update to the next release, you can look at the release notes. If there are particular applications you use and want to know about changes for them, probably the best place to look is upstream release notes. As an existing Fedora user, I don't see using books as a way to keep up to date. They'll be out of date for you by the time they are available. If you want to see what's comming down the road, then you might want to watch the feature pages for the upcoming release and loosely follow the devel list. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: fedora books
On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 01:37 -0500, Brian West wrote: Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. each distribution has its own unique set of tools and features. You will not find a book about the features of some specific laptop model, car model or mobile phone. The same with a distro. A car differs to others basically in the way components are assembled. The same with a distro. They both share the same components in essence. A distro differ from others basically in directories organization and some scripts. The rest is basically the same among others with the same purpose (say, suse, debian, ubuntu). The best way to learn features of a distro is using it with some purpose (ie. write a book, handle bank accounts, play games). If you want to learn linux, the best kind of books are the certification-oriented books. :) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
fedora books
Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. each distribution has its own unique set of tools and features. being that fedora has been known since the beginning as a distribution that stays on the cutting edge giving its users the latest software what book would you suggest to ensure i can stay educated on fedora? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: fedora books
On 11/30/2012 10:37 PM, Brian West wrote: Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. each distribution has its own unique set of tools and features. being that fedora has been known since the beginning as a distribution that stays on the cutting edge giving its users the latest software what book would you suggest to ensure i can stay educated on fedora? Fedora evolves faster than printing schedules. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: fedora books
On 12/01/2012 01:47 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/30/2012 10:37 PM, Brian West wrote: Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. each distribution has its own unique set of tools and features. being that fedora has been known since the beginning as a distribution that stays on the cutting edge giving its users the latest software what book would you suggest to ensure i can stay educated on fedora? Fedora evolves faster than printing schedules. any suggestions on how can stay educated? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: fedora books
On 11/30/2012 10:48 PM, Brian West wrote: On 12/01/2012 01:47 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 11/30/2012 10:37 PM, Brian West wrote: Hello everyone I'd like to hear any suggestions you may have when it comes to a good book to learn the features of fedora. while there are countless books that teach you how to use linux in the general way. each distribution has its own unique set of tools and features. being that fedora has been known since the beginning as a distribution that stays on the cutting edge giving its users the latest software what book would you suggest to ensure i can stay educated on fedora? Fedora evolves faster than printing schedules. any suggestions on how can stay educated? this list is the best I've found ... and depending on how much you want to drown there are other lists regarding beta, project direction, etc. my sense is all OS are evolving faster than print and once you gotten a handle on the OS from general books and test driving, the changes you need to know about will appear online in the various sites that are staying on top of that OS I stand to be corrected by anyone else if they see a problem with this sense -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
