Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Michael D. Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Running Linux looks pretty good. The edition available at http://www.chapters.ca/ is from 1999. The website seems to say there is an upcoming 2002 edition, but when I click the link on chapters' website it takes me to

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:33:09AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: You might try the Linux Cookbook by Michael Stutz (ISBN 1-886411-48-4). The author provides something of a Debian based solution to lots of common situations. apt-get install linuxcookbook Johann -- Johann Spies

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:01:36 +0200 Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:33:09AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: You might try the Linux Cookbook by Michael Stutz (ISBN 1-886411-48-4). The author provides something of a Debian based solution to lots of common

Newbie Resources Was -- Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread David Teague
: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 05:59:47 -0500 From: Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian book for complete newbie? Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 06:54:17 -0400 Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:01:36 +0200 Johann Spies

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2002-06-13 Thread synthespian
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:16:33PM -0400, David Teague wrote: Hi I remember Dale (aka Dwarf) Sheetz's the Debian Linux User's Guide. ISBN 0-9659575-1-9. published by Linux Press in 1998. Hi- Yes, it's updated. Look at the previous posts. By the way, why is the

Re: Newbie Resources Was -- Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread Bill Morgan
On 6/13/02 1:16 PM, David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember Dale (aka Dwarf) Sheetz's the Debian Linux User's Guide. ISBN 0-9659575-1-9. published by Linux Press in 1998. It was distributed with a CD of Debian 2.1. It was available as html for free electronic redistribution, That

Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-12 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I may have my first opportunity in a long time to turn someone on to Free Software. I showed my brother in law my Slackware laptop, and he thought it was pretty cool. I suggested I install Linux on his PC for him, and he wants me to do that. I've decided to install Woody. I use both

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Michael D. Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I may have my first opportunity in a long time to turn someone on to Free Software. I showed my brother in law my Slackware laptop, and he thought it was pretty cool. I suggested I install Linux on his PC for him, and he

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-12 Thread synthespian
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:22:23AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: _Running Linux_ (at the link above) is still probably the single best book covering the topic. I agree. Although it's not about Debian, if I were to buy one book, this would be it. There's an outdated book specifically

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-12 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Running Linux looks pretty good. The edition available at http://www.chapters.ca/ is from 1999. The website seems to say there is an upcoming 2002 edition, but when I click the link on chapters' website it takes me to the wrong page. I couldn't find anything about a 2002 edition at

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-12 Thread Johann Spies
Search google for rute.pdf It is a book by Paul Sheer of about 700 pages referring frequently to the debian way of doing things. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 04:42:45 -0230 Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm only going to be here for a month, and while I can do the installation and teach Bruce the basics, I think it would be very helpful to get Bruce a printed book. The online doc only works if you know enough

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-12 Thread Q. Gong
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Johann Spies wrote: Search google for rute.pdf It is a book by Paul Sheer of about 700 pages referring frequently to the debian way of doing things. The website is http://rute.sourceforge.net. It looks nice. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-12 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:14, Q. Gong wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Johann Spies wrote: The website is http://rute.sourceforge.net. It looks nice. Qian Gee, that seems to be a real piece of work. A link on my desktop...:-) Cheers, Helgi Örn -- ~ This message is digitally signed -

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:42:45AM -0230, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I'm only going to be here for a month, and while I can do the installation and teach Bruce the basics, I think it would be very helpful to get Bruce a printed book. The online doc only works if you know enough about Linux