Text Recommendation

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/30/2012 04:14 PM, Doug wrote:
>>
>> On 04/30/2012 03:45 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>
>>> Bahn, Nathan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Please accept this apology for being too vague. I'm looking for a
>>>> good Linux (C.L.I.) instruction manual -- preferably one with good
>>>> exercises to complete. I ask this because I'm tired of being too
>>>> dependent upon the G.U.I.
>>>
>>> Try to find something here:
>>> <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>
>>> <http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nils
>>>
>> There are some bash programming texts on the 'Net. One humongous
>> one is "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" by Mendel Cooper (About 700 pages
>> altogether!) and there is an O'Reilly freebie, "bash Pocket Reference" by
>> Arnold Robbins. (At least I think it was free--if not, it's very cheap.)
>>
>> An excellent command reference is another O'Reilly book that you'll have
>> to buy--"Linux in a Nutshell--A Desktop Quick Reference" by Siever,
>> Figgins,
>> Love and Robbins. It's been published in successive editions since 1997;
>> I have the sixth edition of 2009. This is a real paper book, 900 pages.
>> It's the best $50 I ever spent on Linux! I use it at least once a week.
>>
>> If you could find an old RedHat or SuSE Linux manual (or pair) from around
>> 2000 or earlier, before everything got GUI-fied, there was some useful
>> stuff there
>> that is not so easy to locate anymore. If there's a nearby Linux club,
>> somebody
>> may have one they might give you. I seem to have lost mine.
>
>
> Heh, after they squashed system-v, half of what is in those old RedHat
> manuals is deader than a doornail. I miss the old days. I had 20 users
> telneted into our MUD on a 486 with 32 megs of memory, no sweat. You were a
> weenie if you actually rebooted. I reboot more frequently now that I did
> with Win3.1  :) Ric
>

Why?  I reboot the desktop for kernel updates primarily.  My laptop
dual-boots, so you can't blame the system(s) for the frequency on that
machine.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD