any good fedora books out there?

david walcroft david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au
Sat Jan 17 01:55:06 UTC 2004


David Jackson wrote:
>>-> Message: 9
>>-> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:41:35 -0500 (EST)
>>-> From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com>
>>-> To: Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>-> Subject: any good fedora books out there?
>>-> Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>->
>>->
>>-> to go along with a couple fedora courses i've written, i'm curious
>>-> if there are any worthwhile fedora books that i could consider adding
>>-> to the student kit.  any recommendations?  (if you've written any
>>-> yourself, feel free to be self-serving.)
>>->
>>-> rday
>>
>>
>>Well not yet but this is a good starting point for upcoming releases:
>>http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-WILEY_SEARCH_RESULT.html?queryText=fedora&field=keyword
>>
>>I have read a number of the one's written by Chris Negus and for previous
>>RedHat versions they were rather good. The RedHat 8.0  Bible was easy to
>>read, well organized albeit a bit limited in scope, I would have preffered
>>a
>>bit more nitty gritty in terms of configuration but it is a good starting
>>point. Mind you that the difference between RH 8/9 and FC1 are, in terms
>>of
> 
> 
>>general user and administration terms, so little that you could probably
>>pick one of these "old" books up for a penny and a scratch and give it a
>>whirl.
> 
> That an excellent point, I have used Redhat since 7.x? And I don't see
> much difference.
> 
> Keeping in mind that Fedora is Redhat,and Redhat is Linux you could start
> with the docs on the Redhat's mainsite, and then move on to Linux Doc
> Project at http://www.tldp.org.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
Came across one of those "24 Hours" books the other day (Brisbane 
Australia ) very suprised as computer tech books are a month or two 
behind the world here, it was 'Fedora' with 2 publishers FC1 CD's.Didn't 
note the publisher.

           david





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