[COMP] Re: a show of hands...

> I consider O'Reilly publishing http://linux.oreilly.com to be a great
> source for Linux newbies. "Running Linux" is a great book to start with,
> and it very well good be the only book you'll need to read. I like
> actual physical books because you don't have to be at your computer to
> read them. HOWTO documents and manual pages could takeover afterwards
> with the small stuff they are about the size of short stories or less.
> Waldenbooks and Barnes & Noble carries Oreilly books. Oreilly is
> becoming increasingly popular on the shelves, and for understandible
> reasons. Don't go over board on buying these books though (~$35). Stick
> to the basics. I've noticed that they're glorified HOWTOs and man pages
> molded together and dished out for user-friendliness (usually the
> authors of the HOWTOs give permission to do this or do it themselves),
> but they are good first-time books.

I gotta agree here- the HOWTO documents (mirrored worldwide in 
/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO) are great.  They're put together by the gurus, for 
the gurus.  And it works out well with them, because they're all free. :)

John


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