MH>> What books would you gents recomend to someone who feels like
MH>> they are hitting a wall on their way to getting deep?
It looks like you are getting good advice from several people, so I'd like
to suggest a specific book:
Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0072225629/002-8018040-4598462?v=glance&n=2
83155&s=books&v=glance
This book is designed for the Windows administrator that is moving to Linux.
This is a good starting place. It covers a lot of ground and is far from a
beginners guide. It assumes you are well experienced in computers and
networking, and is thus misnamed. But it is a great base and will have you
setting up file shares, printer shares, web services, DNS, mail, etc. It
does have some Red Hat specific stuff, but tries to stay pretty generic.
That said, I'd rather have a distro-specific book like this one as it does
leave you scratching your head from time-to-time, looking for where a file
is located on _your_ distro.
After this book, almost anything else I've needed has been on the web.
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of michael hast
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 11:15 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: [SLUG] books/ref. material
What books would you gents recomend to someone who feels like they are
hitting a wall on their way to getting deep? I've been playing with Linux
for about seven months, and bugging you guys with my newbie problems for
about that long, too. I've grown a lot in that time and learned a lot, too.
All my friends esteem me as some kind of hacker, if you want a good laugh.
It's about time that I need something bound to read instead of trying to
soak up as much as I can on Google.
I want to learn how to run NFS and Samba as well as the emulators.
I would like to better familiarize myself with root commands and the basics
of programming. I want to be able to build my own distro. So, I think I'll
be picking up a copy of Knoppix Hacks, and I wondered what everyone else
would recomend taking some time with. I plan on picking up several books
that I can absorb right off the bat, and hang on to for reference guides,
and as I read them, I anticipate getting more as well.
Thank you.
Michael
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