hi I found the other book. rute it is called. http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz I still think that the best starting place is think unix.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Marc Sent: ?a 04 ?aaiao 2002 5:28? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux book in normal english A friend and I have been discussing linux in general and Mandrake in particular. below is part of a email that I received from him. Can anyone suggest some good reading material for this guy? Thanks all Marc > > >> Personaly I have always found that working with it while I am >> learning works best for me . On computers and about anything elese >>for that matter. But maybe that is just me I seem to learn in kinda a >>different way than most people. > >That's usually true for me to, but in this case, don't want to upset my >applecart with regarding the things I use everyday... If I had a third >computer to play and learn on, that'd be different. And remember >learning enough to run my own is not enough, I want to be able to work >on others as well. So a lot of playing and futzing is required. And I'm >the kinda guy thats gotta have a gestalt. I need to build a construct >in my head of how this thing works and where all the switches and >buttons are just like I have with Winblows. Right now, I'm just >learning the terminology. And the tutuorials I'm finding so far are all >geek speek. They use one set of technical terms to explain another... >it's a circle. >
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