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Re: Newbie Help (was: Re: (no subject))



On Fri, 15 May 1998, Taouz Leonid wrote:

>             Hello , everybody at cold LINUX land ...

a. not cold
b. why CC: me, for god's steak?

>   I'm one of those hard-to-die newbies , stupid newbies , tiresome newbies
> poor newbies .

couldn't say it better myself.

> I installed RH 4.2 Linux on my machine few month ago
...
> from Your shining peak recommend me some BOOKS I can read about LINUX and
> do not bother to Very Busy LINUX Gurus ... 

well. I didn't know jack cheese about Unix before I installed it the first
time, and I haven't opened a single Linux book since then. the information
I needed was all in man pages and /usr/doc (well, not complete in my early
days on SlackerWare, RedHat does a much better job).

now here's the main thing: the Linux world changed a lot since those days,
and from a hacker's cool toy Linux developped to a real-world OS. the
question is really not "what book do I need to study linux?" but more
"what do I need to study software development / system administration /
internet services / shell programming under linux?". 

with that focused intention you go search the net for thwe documentation
and HOW-TOs that have already been written about the specific subject, and
if you don't end end up satisfied, those papers will recommend some books
too.