Guys,

Please, it wasn't a flame, it was just a small rant aimed at noone in particular, I was only Identify a weekness in the documentation of Linux.

As for books, the unix programming environment by Kenrighan is worth a read as are

TCP/IP network Admin - Lots of info on configuring networks for unix Unix in a nutshell - Explains all th commands A book on PC hardware - useful for understanding how the hardware works programming with GNu software - good for working out why ./configure, make make install has failed.

Any more I think of I'll mail you.

Thanks

D

"A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."

Knight turned the machine off and on.

the machine worked."

--- Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:

Go on then! After last night's flame, I thought you could all recommend me good books to read to tell me how basic things work. I'll then compile a little list and we could have it on the homepage for other beginners to consult. Next thing you know I'll run out of questions to ask and will be completely brilliant. I've got O'Reilly Running Linux. Any others? (Writing Linux Devices Drivers sounds well heavy stuff, David, and may well go above a newbie's head?) Jen.

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