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>From: andyo@ora.com (Andy Oram)
>Subject: Two Linux books from O'Reilly and Associates
>Message-ID: <ann-15083.791491518@cs.cornell.edu>
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>Keywords: Linux, books, O'Reilly, publication
>Sender: mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
>Reply-To: andyo@ora.com (Andy Oram)
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>Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:45:40 GMT
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>O'Reilly & Associates, well-known for our books on Unix, the Internet,
>and the X Window System, has just published two books on Linux:
>"Running Linux" by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman, and the well-known
>"Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch.  This mail
>message describes the books and how to order them.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Running Linux
>
>600 pages strong, this book covers everything you need in order to
>understand, install, and use Linux.  Author Matt Welsh (the moderator
>of this newsgroup) wrote the "Linux Installation and Getting Started
>Guide," which is included with many Linux CD-ROMs.  Topics in "Running
>Linux" include:
>
>* The background and concepts of the Linux system.
>
>* A comprehensive installation tutorial that will lead you through the
>  steps of configuring Linux on your machine from any distribution.
>
>* A chapter on UNIX basics, designed especially for Linux users.
>
>* Complete information on Linux system administration and maintenance,
>  from managing user accounts to repairing filesystems to upgrading
>  software to building a new kernel.
>
>* Full installation and configuration information for XFree86 3.1
>  (Version 11, release 6 of the X Window System).
>
>* Power tools available for the system, including the Emacs and vi
>  editors, text formatting systems such as TeX, and tools for
>  interfacing with MS-DOS.
>
>* The programming languages and tools available for Linux, giving you
>  a complete software development environment: the gcc C and C++
>  compiler, the gdb debugger, and other languages such as Perl and Tcl/Tk;
>
>* Network configuration and administration under Linux, including
>  TCP/IP, SLIP, UUCP, electronic mail, and serial telecommunications;
>
>* Information on providing network services from your Linux machine,
>  including configuration of a World Wide Web server.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Linux Network Administrator's Guide
>
>This book is one of the most successful to come from the Linux
>Documentation Project.  It touches on all the essential networking
>software included with Linux, plus some hardware considerations.
>Topics include:
>
>* Introduction to TCP/IP
>
>* Configuring network and serial hardware
>
>* Domain Name Service
>
>* Serial line communications using SLIP and PPP
>
>* NIS and NFS
>
>* Taylor UUCP
>
>* Administering electronic mail, including smail and Sendmail+IDA
>
>* Administering Netnews, including C News, NNTP, and several news
>  readers
>
>O'Reilly & Associates thoroughly reviewed and edited this book, making
>many suggestions and adding enhancements such as extra index entries.
>Olaf is incorporating all these changes back into the free version on
>the Net.  But our version provides an attractive and convenient
>format.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Ordering information
>
>Please excuse the length of this posting.  Linux has an international
>following, and we have international distribution.  Just scan this
>list for the location nearest you!
>
>In the United States, each book is $24.95.  Contact the distributor
>for your country to learn the price there.
>
>  North and South America
>
>	Place credit card orders at 800-889-8969 (Weekdays 6am-6pm
>	PST).  For general information call 800-998-9938 or
>	707-829-0515.
>
>  United Kingdom
>
>	Call International Thomson Publishing Services, Ltd. at
>	44-264-342-832.
>
>  Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
>
>	Call International Thomson Publishing GmbH in Bonn at
>	49-228-970240.
>
>  Other parts of Europe, Africa, Iran, and Middle Eastern countries to
>  the west of the Caspian Sea and Iran
>
>	Call International Thomson Publishing Services, Ltd. in the UK
>	at 44-264-342-806.
>
>  Japan
>
>	Call Yumiko Kawamura, International Thomson Publishing Japan,
>	at (03)3221-1385.
>
>   Asia, east of Iran and the Caspian Sea, excluding Japan
>
>	Call International Thomson Publishing Asia in Singapore at
>	65-268-7867.
>
>  Australia
>
>	Call WoodsLane Pty Limited at 61-2-979-5944.
>
>  New Zealand
>
>	Call WoodsLane New Zealand Ltd at 64-6-347-6543.
>
>  Islands of the Pacific Ocean
>
>	Call O'Reilly & Associates at 707-829-0515
>
>You can find book descriptions and other information about O'Reilly &
>Associates by gophering to gopher.ora.com, or browsing our Web site
>http://gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/index.html.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Andy Oram  O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.                   andyo@ora.com
>           90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140-3244  (617) 499-7479
>           USA                                      fax:(617) 661-1116
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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