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Message 12327 - Posted: 6 May 2005, 1:02:43 UTC

While I've been using PCs for quite awhile, Linux is an area I am still a novice in. What would be a good book to learn all the finer points. I'm not looking for something to do the easy stuff, but more interested in things like configuring Samba and things like that. I'm not afraid to dive into config files if I have the right guidance.


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Message 12371 - Posted: 7 May 2005, 7:39:20 UTC - in response to Message 12327.  

The best I can come up with is to google about samba or where your interrest lie. For e.g. linux kernel information is http://www.kernelnewbies.org/ a good starting point.
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Message 12374 - Posted: 7 May 2005, 10:07:06 UTC
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Whilst the internet is an invaluable source, I still think a good book or two is worth the investment. I'm too much of a novice myself to advise on which book is best, but I'm very fond of the <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly</a> books. The only problem is choosing which one, as there are books from beginner level (<i>Running Linux</i>) up. Even <i>Running Linux</i> has 673 pages including the index, so will get you a long way.
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Message 12383 - Posted: 7 May 2005, 17:16:03 UTC

Thanks for the replies Egon and Andrew.

I guess I'm a little more like Andrew, I am little more old school where I like a book that I can be thumbing through and taking notes in. The help an dman files along with the how-to's online are all fine but sometimes you already have to know what you're looking for to get to the right one you need. The table of contents and indexes of books I find very useful ways of finding the info I need.

If anyone has any good books they recoomend, I would be greatly appreciative. Until then I'll be looking around O'Reilly.

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