On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:13 AM, David G. Miller <d...@davenjudy.org> wrote: > >> Red Hat Linux is ancient. > <SNIP> > I started with Red Hat Linux 5 in 1998. Mind your manners when calling RHL 9 > ancient or I'll come over and hit you with my walker.
In computer years, that's like a century ago. > Advice to OP: Don't spend much money on treeware books about Linux in general > or > CentOS in particular. The technology moves fast enough that the book will be > obsolete in six months to a year. I work best with real books because I can > easily dog-ear, underline, highlight, mark, etc. so I understand liking a real > book. But real books don't have that 'search' box up at the top... > If you really want to have a real book, take the time to visit a local book > store that has a decent selection of technical books and page through some of > the books there to see which author's style fits you. If you can afford it, > spend the money and support your local book store. If you can't afford it, > see > what you can find on-line, at a garage or yard sale, etc. Either way, get > used > to using Google to get answers to your questions. The answer will change over > time. It is really unfortunate that neither paper books nor pdf's have developed the technology to easily show you 'just' those changes so you end up starting from scratch every time a developer decides to make some small change. I've always wished for something where you could input the version you know and get a description of the changes between that and some current version. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos