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 :-))
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Hopkins" Jenny@toby-churchill.com To: oldhippy@uklinux.net; main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:55 PM Subject: RE: [ALUG] Linux Newbie Book
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 :-))
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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I have a copy of the third edition (1999) if anyone wants it, although it's pretty out-of-date now.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.
On the subject, how does the ALUG library work? Should I donate my spare books to it? Does it get used much?
Joe
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I have a copy of the third edition (1999) if anyone wants it, although it's pretty out-of-date now.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
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 15:39, Joe Button wrote:
On the subject, how does the ALUG library work? Should I donate my spare books to it? Does it get used much?
Well. The ALUG library is a red plastic box with some books in it. It gets dragged by me and Adam to meetings when we remember or feel like it (it is burgeoning out of all proportions and Very Heavy now). It doesn't often go to evening meetings now as looks a bit weird to go in the pub lugging a crate. But it attends our Sunday afternoon meetings, unless forgotten :)
It seems quite popular when it makes an appearance, it is a rare meeting when someone doesn't borrow something. If someone wants to borrow a book, I write their names in a little book of my own, plus contact details, so we know where the book is. Then you get to keep the book as long as you want or need it (though if we get a request for it after a reasonable amount of time, you'd be asked to return it. That hasn't happened very often though). Book donations are very, very welcome if they are of general interest, but I am not sure that out-of-date manuals etc are very helpful as they are just heavy to carry around and don't often excite interest. Recent manuals are otoh very nice to get :)
Hope that answers your questions.
/Kirsten
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:49:46PM +0000, Kirsten Naylor wrote:
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 15:39, Joe Button wrote:
On the subject, how does the ALUG library work? Should I donate my spare books to it? Does it get used much?
they are of general interest, but I am not sure that out-of-date manuals etc are very helpful as they are just heavy to carry around and don't often excite interest. Recent manuals are otoh very nice to get :)
I think that maybe the time has come for me and Kirsty (ok, i admit i will probably delegate the task) to look at the books we have and put an up to date list on the alug website.
Adam
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