On Thursday 2007-05-17 04:06:11 Kam Leo wrote: > On 5/16/07, Doncho N. Gunchev <gunchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Friday 2007-05-11 18:26:27 Robin Laing wrote: > > > Kam Leo wrote: > > > > On 5/10/07, Alastair Neil <ajneil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I have always been fond of "linux in a nutshell" from O'Reilly. > > > >> > > > >> On 5/10/07, Scott Berry <sberry@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > >> > Okay you suggest me a good book on Linux and I will see if I can > > ... > > > I like "Linux for Dummies" as a easy desk reference. I gave my father a > > > copy when he started using RH6 for a project. > > > > RH6?!? This is tooo old if it is really about RH6, not FC6. I'm running linux > > for about 7 years now, but never used anything older than RH6.2... > > It may be hard to believe but the basics, e.g. permissions, built-in > commands, etc., have not changed over that time. > Yes and no, it's the way it should be, but they have extended in various ways, new ones were added (iproute wasn't there AFAIR) and even some were replaced (lrp -> CUPS, inetd -> xinetd, ipchains -> iptables). Nothing (or almost nothing) for X11's config will be true also... In short: reading about so ancient version of RH could be very confusing! (Or is the book discusing only things like ls, chmod, chown?) It really depends on how do you define basics. For the problem he faces even reading about minix would do, but I would not recommend it! -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev, GPG key ID: 0EF40B9E, Key server: pgp.mit.edu
