On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:19, anton wrote: > Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 00:52, Rob Blomquist wrote: > >>On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and > >> enlightened us > >> > >>with: > >>>I haven't quite got the hang of how to install things on Mandrake. > >>> I downloaded the Starter Guide, but it is still like greek to me. > > > > Be patient. With time, and with some effort, it will quickly begin > > to resemble not Greek, but Esperanto. :*) > > > >>Several books that I have used include: > >>LINUX: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE, 5/E > >>THE LINUX COOKBOOK > >>LINUX ETUDES > >>RUNNING LINUX > > > > I'll second the recommendation for "Running Linux," which I'm > > currently working my way through. At times it gets a little heavy > > or technical for a casual user, but on the whole it does a pretty > > good job of explaining basic concepts in an understandable manner. > > > > RUTE is also good. > > What is wrong here people? Oh, that's right. WTF is rute says the > complete newbie!?! The Rute users guide is a project/book aiming at a > fairly good intro to whizz of Linux: > http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html > its "free" but you can also buy a hard copy. It's definitely worth a > look. I had a look at Sams RedHat 9 book and found that there was > reasonably little that was different to Mandrake. Except Redhat is > for goons...:-) Also worth a look if you want a massive manual to > make you feel a little more secure. > > > That said, I still know /so/ little ... yet, it's volumes more than > > I knew 5-6 weeks ago. Some problems I've been able to figure out > > on my own, others with the patient help of those here in this > > group, and others I still don't understand well enough to tackle > > ... those I've put aside for a later time when, hopefully, things > > will have "fallen into place" for me and they'll be a piece of > > cake. :-) > > > >>One of the problems with Linux books is there current-ness. Many > >> books offered are way out of date. Mandrake is very similar to Red > >> Hat, so a current Red Hat book could be a good buy. But don't > >> leave us, as there is alot of useful stuff that is not documented > >> in books, that only we Mandrake folks know about. > > > > I'd also recommend -- being somewhat of a miser myself, and on a > > very limited income at the moment -- checking out the used book > > sources (such as Amazon, or perhaps http://www.bookfinder.com). > > That's what I did a few weeks back when I was first getting my > > Linux feet wet, and managed to pick up like-new, current editions > > of "Running Linux," "Linux Desk Reference," and "Linux in a > > Nutshell" for around $50 total, S&H included. > > > >>And the pundits that talk about how linux is not ready for the > >> desktop have no idea what they are talking about. Linux has been > >> ready for this desktop for the last 4 years. I run a 100% MS free > >> PC. My processor has never seen MS code. > > > > Linux is certainly ready for the desktop ... I would, however, say > > that most (more casual) users are not ready for Linux. :-) > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >----- > > > > ____________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > > ____________________________________________________ > > -=-=- > ... For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. > -- Titus Lucretius Carus Mandrake is an offshoot of RH therefore you might like 'Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible' a 1040 page book that covers linux pretty well. -- Regards; Hoyt
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