On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:36:21 -0800, perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fedora Unleashed by SAMS is pretty good. I would recommend it over > this book and its available at Borders, if you're one of the few > people on the list willing to patronize them. > I'm willing to patronize them, but I don't usually buy computer books there, unless I can proxy through at least a 20% discount.
As far as books for learning unix like operating systems, forget those "Mastering $distro in 5 easy lessons (with pictures!)" if you are going to spend good money on a book, get "Unix Power Tools" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/upt3/ since you'll still be reading it long after $distro has gone the way of disco ducks, and pet rocks and grunge rock. Speaking of books, I have a stack that I'm willing to trade for other books: HAVE: Learning Debian GNU/Linux (5 years old , may be useful to a newbie but some parts are badly outdated) Linux Network Administrators Guide 2nd ed. (good for a novice sysadmin, some of the protocol stuff is interesting; if you've never heard of UUCP this may be for you) Linux Application Development. (Addison Wesley- if you are just becoming cognizant of programming in a Linux environment this may be for you. Basics of dealing with system calls, error trapping, pipes, and sockets ) Practical Unix & Internet Security 3rd ed. ( security classic by Garfinkel, Spafford and Schwartz. if you build any sort of publicly acessible service available to the internet at large you will eventually be hacked, learn the basics of how to prevent it in the first place, limit the damage that can happen, detect that it has happened, and recover from the damage without making your system more vulnerable ) Newton's Wake (Ken Macleod, SciFi, postsingularity space opera, amusing but not as kick as the fall revolution series) Diaspora (Greg Egan, Scifi, portrait of an explorer as a young program, best posthuman birthing scene evah!) assortment of scifi paperbacks, some old programming textbooks. WANT: Postfix the definitive guide (O'Reilly) select Books on topics where books don't suck and topic like, databases Apache internals Concurrency RDF prolog (programming language) O'Caml (programming language) graph algorithms made easy genetic algorithms made simple I'll bring my box of books to Jamies on thursday night. -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
