books

2003-06-14 Thread dave
Can anyone suggest some reference material that outlines the boot process for Mandrake? -- 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.ke

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: Good books for a linux newbie

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
> > I told him I'd post here asking about books that may be of assistance to > him. >He is running Mandrake 9, and just wants to use it for word-processing, >email, music, etc (average desktop user). Games aren't a big issue, but it >would be good to he

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 -

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

Re: Books on XFree86

2001-05-16 Thread Jack Daly
There's Learning the Bash Shell published by O'Reilly. The Advanced Bash-Scripting HOWTO is quite good too, and free. On 14 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a good book on the Bash shell and script programming with it? > > > Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.co

Re: Books on XFree86

2001-05-15 Thread Kervin Pierre
Two really, really good books for shell programming (i) Portable shell programming - Bruce Blinn - ISBN 0134514947 This book is a program by example book and is the best shell script reference I've come across. It covers bourne shell, ie. /bin/sh, which is as far as I know is a subset of

Re: Books on XFree86

2001-05-15 Thread jlalarcon
"Linux Programmers's Reference" by Richard Petersen, Osborne McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com Regards. Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez. you wrote: > Does anyone know of a good book on the Bash shell and script programming with it? > > > Download NeoPlanet at ht

Re: Books on XFree86

2001-05-15 Thread Rukmani Gopalan
-- I'm not sure abt specific books on Bash shelll script programming. But for general shell script programming, a good book is Advanced Shell Scripts (or something like that) by Stephen Prata. Cheers, Rukmani On 14 May 2001 22:36:31 -060 bmg143 wrote: >Does anyone know of a good

Books on XFree86

2001-05-14 Thread bmg143
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