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RE: advanced linux desktop book



Think of a microsoft oriented person, who used to work with MS desktops and
servers, and decides to learn linux.
He picks up a book about using linux as a server (web, ftp, mail,
firewall,etc.) which teaches him the basic work
with linux and how to specifically configure the servers.
Now he wants to use linux as his desktop, but he runs into many problems,
which are not always technical.
something like that?

ishay

-----Original Message-----
From: Adi Stav [mailto:adi@fred.stav]On Behalf Of Adi Stav
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 4:58 PM
To: ishaybas@netvision.net.il
Cc: linux-il@linux.org.il
Subject: Re: advanced linux desktop book


On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:10:36PM +0200, ishaybas@netvision.net.il wrote:
> shalom lekolam,
>
> does anyone know a book for the intermediate and advanced user on how
> to use the linux system as your desktop? All I could find were books who
> teach
> you how to do ls, and install linux, nothing more serious... (on the
desktop
> side)

What exactly are you looking for that is desktop-specific? I can't
think of many "advanced" functions that are only relevant to desktop
machines but not to servers, unless you are looking specifically for
Quake, video editing and the like. With both servers and desktops you
need to know how manage a filesystem, configure networking and the
such -- they are mostly the same for servers and desktops. So I
suppose the guides and the HOWTOs from the LDP at
http://www.linuxdoc.org could be very useful. Some companies put them
in print from time to time.


	- Adi Stav


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