Adam Bower abower@zeus.com writes: [...]

I know some of the Introduction sections are a bit Noddy if you are more experienced but they really don't help a complete newbie

Isn't that what the NHFs et al are for? And magazine articles?

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Hmmm, two of those books probably won't help people like Jen *that* much!

No, we drifted :-) But as long as you've got the O'Reilly debian book and access to someone else's bookmarks ( http://www.towers.org.uk/links/root_software.html might be useful to some of the people some of the time), you're on your way.

Is system administration ever going to be *that* easy, though? At least once the hard work is done, you can relax as a normal user.