Re: Allow myself to introduce...myself

["Steve Reindl" <sreindl@home.com>]

If we're looking from strictly a beginners point of view, an excellent text
that covers almost all the basics from a strictly user standpoint (desktop
only, no sysadmin or network stuff) is Learning Unix Using Linux published
by Course Technologies. http://www.course.com
 It teaches command line stuff first from ls to grep to sed to awk. Shell
scripting, vi, emacs, and even light C programming. It ends up with Gnome
only because it comes with a severely disabled publishers edition of RH 6.0.

Just my 2 cents

Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Reichardt" <stan@mail.sluug.org>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Allow myself to introduce...myself


> "James L. Burke" wrote:
> >
> > If someone was planning to use Red Hat, I would highly recommend the
book:
> >
> > "Using Red Hat Linux"
> > by Alan Simpson and John Ray
> > published by QUE
> >
> > It is very basic and walks you through a number of important issues.  My
> > only complaint is that it relies to heavily on the Red Hat GUI interface
...
> > I think even beginners should learn to do things at the command line,
but
> > that's just my opinion.
> >
> > Nevertheless, that book is the best "beginners" book I've run across.
> > (Note: I suppose "beginners" is a relative term.)
> >
>
>
> I read that book in May, didn't think it was all that good
> for a beginner.
>
>     TITLE: Special Edition, Using Red Hat Linux
>   AUTHOR1: Alan Simpson
>   AUTHOR2: John Ray
> PUBLISHER: QUE
> PUBLISHED: 2000
>      ISBN: 0-7897-2258-5
>      STLC: 005.4469/S613U
>      NOTE: CD-ROM with RH 6.2
>
> Yes, "beginners" is a relative term.  Getting behind all the GUI stuff
> is the elegance and power of Linux.  Maybe I can no longer see which is
> the best beginner book, but, I have definite ideas about what a new user
> should learn to use.
>
> I think there are a number of better "beginner" books.
> I would recommend (if you can find it):
>
>     TITLE: Linux for Dummies Quick Reference (/2nd Edition)
>   AUTHOR1: Phil Hughes (publisher of Linux Journal)
> PUBLISHER: IDG - International Data Group Books Worldwide Inc.
> PUBLISHED: 1997 / 1998
>     PRICE: $14.99
>      ISBN: 0-7645-0302-2 / 0-7645-0422-3
>      STLC: 0054.469
>      NOTE: 005.4469/H894L ? -
>
> The regular "Linux for Dummies" book, first edition by Whitherspoon
> was IMHO an embarrassment,  look for Second or (new) Third Edition:
>
>     TITLE: Linux for Dummies 2nd Edition
>   AUTHOR1: Jon "maddog" Hall
> PUBLISHER: IDG - International Data Group Books Worldwide Inc.
> PUBLISHED: 1999
> PURCHASED: 990412
>     PRICE: $24.99
>      ISBN: 0-7645-0421-5
>      STLC: N/A
>      NOTE: RedHat 5.2 on CD-ROM included. Much better than 1st edition.
>     NOTE2: The third edition should be available soon.  New primary
>            author is Dee-Ann LeBlanc, the author of "General Linux I
>            Exam Prep" published by Coriolis.  The St. Louis County
>            Library has about 8 copies ordered.
>
> Best book for a beginner that I've seen in the last six months doesn't
> even have "Linux" in the title:
>
>     TITLE: Think Unix
>   AUTHOR1: Jon Lasser
> PUBLISHER: Que
> PUBLISHED: 2000
> PURCHASED: N/A
>      ISBN: 0-7897-2376-x
>      STLC: 005.432/L347T
>      NOTE: Uses Linux examples.  Has good coverage of X Windows System,
>            fonts & colors.
>
> Stan R.
>
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