[plug] Can you recommend a book on learning Linux?

[Adam Hewitt]

Those little 'Adminstrators Guide to Linux' handbooks are excellent, you
know the quater A4 size ones you get from the newsagents...I dont know
if they are still doing those however.

Adam.

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:47, Leon Brooks wrote:
> I've had three customers ask for same within the last week, and I 
> generally don't use books.
> 
> The machine the most recent querant is using is a Mandrake 9.1 box which 
> is RPM-based and has a fairly modern KDE as the default WM, so I 
> suspect that a book starting there would be fairly apropos.
> 
> Generally, expense is not a big problem but a book which is obsolete or 
> lacks relevancy (too computer-sciency and light on practical examples, 
> or too fluffy and up to the eyeballs in cute icons at the expense of 
> real content) is.
> 
> What can you recommend?
> 
> Cheers; Leon