Best book for Fedora (Linux) for beginner

[Marc M]

I understand what you are saying about the timeliness of the printing. But I 
disagree somewhat. Sometimes it has helped me tremendously to find a good 
book and read up on a topic (say a chapter) like mail or DNS or something. 
Sites are good too, I agree also with the server setup of course. It is 
definitely a very non-linear process, thats for sure. You need to do 
probably 20% reading and 80% experimenting....

Also joining a LUG (and recently I started my own Linux Users Group) also 
taught me more than anything I could read, since individuals were there to 
show me and answer questions. 

Marc






On 4/14/05, Kevin Fries <Kevin.Fries at hcico.com> wrote:
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> Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> | To understand how it works and be fairly fluent in it. If you could buy
> | just one. Which one would it be? I know it will take time and all that
> | and most likely more than one book but if you could just get one (thats
> | where I am) which would it be? Thanks.
> 
> To be honest with you, I used to go the book route, but do not do so any
> longer. Its just not prudent. In the Windows world, there is much more
> of a stair step system of upgrades: Windows 2000; Windows XP; Windows XP
> ~ SP2; etc. Linux changes much more fluid and faster. No matter how
> quickly something gets published, it is out of date before its ink is
> dry. Heck, many books are out of date before it is ever approved for
> printing!
> 
> I would suggest finding Linux Newbie sights on the Internet, and running
> a scrap server. Spend the time you would be reading, and follow a
> "Howto" at The Linux Documentation Project (www.tldp.org<http://www.tldp.org>). 
> If you are
> not afraid to screw up the computer, as you wont on a play/scrap
> machine, you can really get in there and figure out all the pieces.
> 
> I have gotten more screwed up by these general purpose books, than they
> have ever helped me. Specific books, such as on DNS or LDAP, are a
> different story. But I have not found a general purpose book I would
> ever consider as teaching outdated, and therefore bad, practices.
> 
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