On Tuesday 02 Mar 2004 3:39 pm, Joe Button wrote:
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 14:55, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
Nick Daniels wrote:
They all ask me the same question . Where can I find a basic book on using Linux? Can anyone reccomend one please? P.S. I promise never to ask about parallel port modems again. Regards
Hi Nick, "Running Linux" by O'Reilly is an excellent first book. Jen (parallel port modem expert extraordinaire :-))
I have a copy of the third edition (1999) if anyone wants it, although it's pretty out-of-date now. Still useful for stuff like learning the bash CLI, but I'm not sure that's beginner's stuff anymore given the GUI usability enhancements that have happened since the book came out.
I also have a thing called 'The complete linux handbook', a magazine format thing that came out last year. It's a bit more up-do-date might be a bit more accessible for a beginner.
Don't forget that many distros come with excellent newbie docs either in pdf or html format. I know both Redhat and Mandrake do and I would be surprised if the other major distros did not.
Ian