A good book for newbies

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:57:29 +0000, Aragorn wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 22:06, Willem Waggelaar stood up and spoke
> the following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandriva...:/
>

>> May be English, but I prefer Dutch.
>>
>> Any suggestions?

>
> Ehm... "Linux for dummies"? :-þ

I would go with 'Linux For Dummies' too, because new users tend to be able
to follow it easily. Even a 100% NT IT person who's company I recently
setup on a Linux backbone managed to work his way through it.

Don't forget the online ones though, some are very well written.
Mandrake's used to be one of the best, so I suspect that the Mandriva one
is just as good.

Aragorn wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 22:06, Willem Waggelaar stood up and spoke
> the following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandriva...:/
>
>

>>May be English, but I prefer Dutch.
>>
>>Any suggestions?

>
>
> Ehm... "Linux for dummies"? :-þ
>

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A very good Linux entry book ,with examples of Mandrxxx screens is :
'Linux in easy steps' by Mike McGrath ISBN 1-84078-275-7

It shows a lots of screens pics which makes it easy to install and start
using our favourite OS .
It includes a chapter on CLI and a list with most used cmds.
To me a very good intro to both the Linux Desktop as well CLI

Frank (Highland Ham)

Aragorn wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 22:06, Willem Waggelaar stood up and spoke
> the following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandriva...:/
>
>

>>May be English, but I prefer Dutch.
>>
>>Any suggestions?

>
>
> Ehm... "Linux for dummies"? :-þ
>

=====================
A very good Linux entry book ,with examples of Mandrxxx screens is :
'Linux in easy steps' by Mike McGrath ISBN 1-84078-275-7

It shows a lots of screens pics which makes it easy to install and start
using our favourite OS .
It includes a chapter on CLI and a list with most used cmds.
To me a very good intro to both the Linux Desktop as well CLI

Frank (Highland Ham)

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:06:43 GMT, Willem Waggelaar wrote:

> May be English, but I prefer Dutch.
>
> Any suggestions?

Don't know if they have Dutch translations but Running Linux published
by O'Reilly has always been one of my favorites. Looks like a new
edition is coming out later this month.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runlinux5/index.html
Almost everything from O'Reilly is a good choice. Tim O'Reilly is a
strong Linux supporter.

As other's have said Mandr*s electronic manuals are worthwhile. Another
book to look at is RUTE. You can download it for free in pdf or html
from here: http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz or you can also buy it
in dead tree form :-)from Amazon.

Cheers,
Goph

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BearItAll wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:57:29 +0000, Aragorn wrote:
>

>> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 22:06, Willem Waggelaar stood up and
>> spoke the following words to the masses in
>> /alt.os.linux.mandriva...:/
>>

>>> May be English, but I prefer Dutch.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?

>>
>> Ehm... "Linux for dummies"? :-þ

>
> I would go with 'Linux For Dummies' too, because new users tend to
> be able to follow it easily. Even a 100% NT IT person who's company
> I recently setup on a Linux backbone managed to work his way through
> it.
>
> Don't forget the online ones though, some are very well written.
> Mandrake's used to be one of the best, so I suspect that the
> Mandriva one is just as good.

http://www.tuxmagazine.com/

Tux magazine is a free online magazine
dedicated to Linux newbies.


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