RE: Good books for a linux newbie

2003-03-02 Thread James Miller
I've recently come across the "Linux: Rute User's Guide," which is also in html (as well as downloadable in pdf). It is located at several site, e.g. http://www.pucmmsti.edu.do/materias/fnunez/RUTE_TUT/RUTE.html or http://www.intelinfo.com/sign-up/linux_rute_book.html (pdf at the homepage at http:/

Re: Good books for a linux newbie

2003-03-02 Thread Peter
Check http://en.tldp.org/guides.html There is an excellent book in html format: Introduction to Linux, A Hands on Guide or http://linux.nf ( excellent SxS (step by step)written for newbies) -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a

RE: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-02 Thread James Miller
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > If you don't mind using a command line tool, then you might want to save the documents as PostScript files and then use ps2pdf13 to convert to PDF format. I have been using ps2pdf13 for a little while now to convert man pages to pdf format, and I hav

Re: mandrake

2003-03-02 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:22 AM 3/2/2003 -0800, dave wrote: I'm running mandrake. My boot cd broke. I have a SCSI CDread-writer that I'm using. It is labeled cdrom2. I tried to use this in the install software under software management. For some reason it doesn't work. I tried to add the drive and that didn't

Mandrake

2003-03-02 Thread dave
Never mind about my problems. I figures it out. Thanks again for you time. Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-i

mandrake

2003-03-02 Thread dave
I'm running mandrake. My boot cd broke. I have a SCSI CDread-writer that I'm using. It is labeled cdrom2. I tried to use this in the install software under software management. For some reason it doesn't work. I tried to add the drive and that didn't work either. Any suggestions? Thanks

RE: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-02 Thread Amin
On 1 Mar 2003 at 19:17, James Miller wrote: [snip] > easily upgrade the KOffice I have. Does anyone know of other apps that > create/convert to pdf that are largely compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader? If you're willing to invest some time in learning LaTeX, you can use ``pdflatex'' to create

Re: Good books for a linux newbie

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:41:44 +0930 Adam Luchjenbroers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: > > I have a friend who has started using Linux, and has found its stability and > >reliability quite impressive. His one complaint is that the OS is unfamiliar >to him. > > I told him

Re: Good books for a linux newbie

2003-03-02 Thread Brian P. Bilbrey
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 03:11, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: > So, what books do you recommend? Dee-Ann LeBlanc wrote a good article with many useful book recommendations on LinuxPlanet.Here's the link, check it out! http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/4380/6/ HTH, .brian -- Brian

Good books for a linux newbie

2003-03-02 Thread Adam Luchjenbroers
I have a friend who has started using Linux, and has found its stability and reliability quite impressive. His one complaint is that the OS is unfamiliar to him. I told him I'd post here asking about books that may be of assistance to him. He is running Mandrake 9, and just wan