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[NMLUG] Linux Newbie Intro
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 01:14:39AM -0600, Lance Fallin wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a newbie trying to get a feel for the lay of the land.
>
> I know about linuxnewbie.org and freshmeat.
>
> any other sites that you 'nix and/or 'nux heads can recommend?
>
Lance - Welcome.
I know you asked for sites and not books, but I have two books I
recommend - they helped me learn. Having a book on the desk to flip
through when I run into a problem is invaluable for me.
They're both from O'Reilly, a company that publishes great computer
books (and that is moving toward free licensing of some of its titles,
I might add).
Learning Red Hat Linux, by Bill McCarty, has a lot of good
introductory material.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/redhat/
Running Linux, by Matt Welsh et. al. is a much more detailed,
technically complete guide to the basics.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/
Both of these titles came out in 1999, so they are reasonably
up-to-date on the basics, though with the speed free software moves,
no book is ever going to be up-to-date on the bleeding edge stuff.
It sounds as though you may be already past the McCarty book, but take
a look at O'Reilly's web site - they include sample chapters and
detailed tables of contents to give you an idea of which might be
better.
Again, welcome.
--
John Fleck
jfleck@inkstain.net (h)
jfleck@abqjournal.com (w)
http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/
http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/
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