[Fwd: Re: [techtalk] Learning more about Linux ...]

[Jeff Frasca]

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Melissa Plunkett wrote:

> Doh!  I sent it to Jeff only, sorry Jeff...let's try this again...

Don't worry about it.  Procmail put the first one in right spot -- I
thought it had gone to the list myself (that's what I get for not
checking the To: and Cc: fields... :)

> 
> Jeff Frasca wrote:
> Excellent recommendation Jeff!  Another good general Unix reference 
> (which also has specific examples for Unix flavors like HP, IRIX, 
> Sun, *BSD) is "The Unix System Administration Handbook". 
> Another good and very general book "Unix: for Programmers and Users". 
> I know these are both Unix books and not Linux but for someone wanting 
> to learn the general stuff really well so as to be able to hop from 
> flavor/distro to flavor/distro these books are some of the best (that 
> and being best friends w/ the man pages and howtos).  

I would actually say that the general Unix books are the best.  I've had
some opportunities come up where I was helping someone poke around on
HP/UX, the mail server at my school is an AIX cluster, and there are a
number of other flavors at UW.  If you start using Unix, you are bound
to run into other variants than Linux -- heck, you might even want to
get a little crazy and slap FreeBSD on your machine.  They all have the
same underlying philosophy, and you'll probably find yourself dinking
around on one someday.

> 
> Hey perhaps all of us can review our favorite books that we are posting
> and then put them on the linuxchix.org site and/or FAQ?

That sounds great.  I'll write it up on my vacation... (I'll have to
send it in this weekend, because I'm leaving, 0700h tomorrow, and well,
I'm going miles from anything vaguely civilized... I promise I'll write
something).

Jeff

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