Reference

[Alfred]

Hi: I got Keir Thomas from Apress Books Beginning Ubuntu Linux from
Novice to Professional. It was $32.00 about, taxes included. It's thick
573 Pages, but I keep going with it. It's written pretty good! He's got
lots of Examples, Diagrams, Puzzles. I used it to add some hardware,
that I got working pretty easily. It comes with an Ubuntu Install CD. I
didn't use it!

Alfred!

On Wed, 2007-14-03 at 21:15 -0400, Peter Whittaker wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-13-03 at 23:32 -0700, Don and/or Mila Trombley wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a good, beginner's Linux  Ubuntu/Xubuntu 
> > reference/tutorial book ( around $20 ) which will help one to get his 
> > feet firmly established?
> 
> I don't know about the price, but I would recommend Sobell's Practical
> Guides - http://www.sobell.com/
> 
> When I first sat down at a UNIX box 17 years ago, I had a copy of his
> Practical Guide to UNIX on my knees. Three days with that, cover to
> cover, going through every example, and I had the context required to
> get firmly established.
> 
> Sobell is good, clear writer, and, instead of unrelated snippets in the
> Hacks books, he writes what is as close to narrative as you can get in a
> tech book, and that's good for context, the what, they why, the how.
> 
> After that, it was man pages all the way....
> 
> pww
>