Knowing that quite a number of you are Debian users i was wondering which of these books you'd recommend [or others!!]... i'm interested in a book that'll give system info rather than a manual on how to use OpenOffice on Debian as it were!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Debian-System-Concepts-Techniques/dp/1593270690/ref=...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Debian-Linux-Bill-McCarty/dp/1565927052/ref...
thanks james
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On 05/02/2008, James Freer jessejazza@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Knowing that quite a number of you are Debian users i was wondering which of these books you'd recommend [or others!!]... i'm interested in a book that'll give system info rather than a manual on how to use OpenOffice on Debian as it were!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Debian-System-Concepts-Techniques/dp/1593270690/ref=...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Debian-Linux-Bill-McCarty/dp/1565927052/ref...
The second one is too old, I would say (I am not a debian user). If you want systems info, then LFS and slack-book is good. But I think you wanted something Debian-specific, and it looks like the first in your list is better.
Happy reading!
Srdj
The problem with all dead-tree books is that they do get out of date very quickly.
Do you know which three of the Debian trees (Stable, Testing, Unstable) you're expecting to use? A book might be handy for Debian Stable because it does remain so for quite a while ... however, as someone who's a recent newcomer to Debian Testing, I tend to head for online documentation and support first of all ...
Managing Debian doesn't seem an awful lot different from say, Ubuntu, so if you're comfortable with that, I don't think you'll have any major problems once you've got it setup the way you like it (getting all the hardware configured is usually the hardest part and I doubt a book would help you much with that).
My 2p's worth,
Peter.
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From: Srdjan Todorovic todorovic.s@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [ALUG] Debian books To: "ALUG ML" main@lists.alug.org.uk Date: Tuesday, 5 February, 2008, 4:44 PM Hi
On 05/02/2008, James Freer jessejazza@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Knowing that quite a number of you are Debian users i
was wondering which of these books you'd recommend [or others!!]... i'm interested in a book that'll give system info rather than a manual on how to use OpenOffice on Debian as it were!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Debian-System-Concepts-Techniques/dp/1593270690/ref=...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Debian-Linux-Bill-McCarty/dp/1565927052/ref...
The second one is too old, I would say (I am not a debian user). If you want systems info, then LFS and slack-book is good. But I think you wanted something Debian-specific, and it looks like the first in your list is better.
Happy reading!
Srdj
thanks srdj LFS and slack-book? what are their full titles please
Ideally i'm wanting to get a good book on systems info which may be general linux or hopefully Debian.
anyone looked through this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Nutshell-OReilly-Ellen-Siever/dp/0596009305/re...
james
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On Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:22, James Freer wrote:
Ideally i'm wanting to get a good book on systems info which may be general linux or hopefully Debian.
The one I usually recommend is the "Linux Cookbook" by Schroder - Also an O'Reilly publication..
It is a recipe book that covers some of the common "how do I do.." subjects along with a few oddball ones. However, it does asume a basic knowledge of keyboard usage (i.e. several notches above the "Dummies Guide to").
If you would like to peruse the book, I'll try to bring it to the next ALUG pubmeet in Norwich.
Regards, Paul.
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From: Paul lists@bulldoghome.com Subject: Re: [ALUG] Debian books To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Date: Tuesday, 5 February, 2008, 6:58 PM Hi James
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:22, James Freer wrote:
Ideally i'm wanting to get a good book on systems
info which may be general
linux or hopefully Debian.
The one I usually recommend is the "Linux Cookbook" by Schroder - Also an O'Reilly publication..
It is a recipe book that covers some of the common "how do I do.." subjects along with a few oddball ones. However, it does asume a basic knowledge of keyboard usage (i.e. several notches above the "Dummies Guide to").
If you would like to peruse the book, I'll try to bring it to the next ALUG pubmeet in Norwich.
Regards, Paul.
V.kind of you Paul to offer but i live in Walsham and Norwich is a bit far. [What i'd spend in fuel return trip would be about the cost of the book!]
james
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James Freer jessejazza@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Debian-System-Concepts-Techniques/dp/1593270690/ref=...
Of those two, I'd go for the above one by madduck, especially if you have a bit of sysadmin experience, even as a hobbyist.
I'm not sure about killing trees for this in general. They're handy if you fry your systems to the point of not being able to obtain the latest electronic book, but otherwise the online books are pretty useful. There are some on www.debian.org, even.
Hope that helps,
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