Please help a MS refugee

Carroll Grigsby cgrigs at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 5 01:14:18 UTC 2004


On Saturday 04 September 2004 04:22 pm, Steve wrote:
> Can I get someone to recommend a reference book to help me get started
> with this new adventure.  I have installed FC2 and am feeling a little
> overwhelmed.  Problems that I am encountering are probably old hat to
> most of you ;) but I feel lost and alone.  I think a book would be the
> most useful tool so I don't ask questions that have been answered a
> hundred times already.
>
> Thanx in advance.

Steve:
As others have already pointed out to you, the best sources for current 
information directly related to Fedora are online. While dead tree books have 
their place, they tend to get killed by the lead time it takes to get the 
book written, edited, proofread, typeset, published and distributed. That 
said, there are some exceptions.

The two most valuable desktop references are:
(1) Running Linux by Walsh, Dalheimer and Kaufman
(2) Linux in a Nutshell by Siever, Spainhour, Figgins and Henkman

Both of these are published by O'Reilly, and are available at most chain 
bookstores, Amazon, or directly through www.oreilly.com. Bear in mind that 
these are not about Fedora, but rather about all Linux distributions in 
general.

Incidentally, there is a ton of other good stuff at the O'Reilly site, and  
it's well worth spending some time there poking around there. You'll even 
find portions of these and other books there. (And no, I have no connection 
with O'Reilly other than being very satisfied with a number of their 
publications.)

Since you just walked in off of the street, it might be worthwhile to look at 
one of the references devoted to Fedora, but bear in mind that they will 
leave a lot of questions unanswered. I've got a copy of Fedora Unleashed by 
Ball and Duff (published by Sams); another series that comes to mind is the 
*** in 24 Hours books (not sure who publishes them). One personal attraction 
of these types of books is that they include the CDs or DVDs, and I'm on 
dialup; downloading and burning a couple of CDs is not a pleasant project.

Some useful bookmarks (some of which you already know about):
http://www.fedoraforum.org/
http://fedorafaq.org/
http://www.fedora.us/
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2 (alternate to above 
archives. Backup to the parent site and you'll find archives to damn near any 
list that you'll ever need.)

There, that should keep you busy for a while.
-- cmg





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