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Books for Linux Newbies?	by chasmosaur	2006-03-27 15:10:04
I had to teach myself, by myself	by chrisbee	2006-03-27 23:47:51
and I have collected half a dozen books usually bought quickly while away from this small country town. Have look at the following Running Linux (3rd edition; 5th must be just about out now) O'Reilly That's probably about the best general one I've got but since Ubuntu is based on Debian: Debian GNU/Linux Bible might be pretty useful although I found it misses on some basic things. I haven't found a really complete and satisfactory basic book. Bear in mind that Linux is a moving target but behind the GUI most of the basic stuff stays pretty still. The dummies type ones are too superficial for what I wanted. Mostly the different distros are to do with installation and file layout. Most of the basic stuff applies all over but you have to search for file locations and sometimes the file names are changed. Good Luck learning - I've gone through Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE and looked at others and am now running Sarge; Debian 3.1. I haven't tried Ubuntu.
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