[techtalk] Re: Computer Books

[Gina Lanik]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:07:08 PST, wirren at excite.com writes:
>
>Yes, I had chosen a few O'Reilly books- especially ones on learning Linux,
>and one on learning networking for beginners... but are the Idiot/Dummy
>books any good? I've never looked at them before in any detail. From a brief
>glance they looked a bit unorganized.

IMHO they are quite nice for beginners, for people who don't want to get into 
a topic in-depth (like my mom, I gave her "PC for Dummies" for x-mas).

When starting out with UNIX the first book I looked into 
was "UNIX for Dummies" but in fact I found out that it doesn't provide the
information I need(ed) to -really- get into it and I quickly moved on to RTFM
(about everything I could get my hands on, man pages, Running Linux/O'Reilly, 
etc.) ;-)

cheers,

Gina

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