Good books for linux learning

[Azeroth]

Well title says it all, a friend told me go for the animals, well i don't know, what woul you guys recommend i never used linux before, shoul i get a command reference?

looking to go beginner to advance, i know it's a long way, but i can walk it, Hey i like walking!

 

[Bluga]

Running Linux by Oreily, its a bit outdated, by still pretty good.

 

[velvtelvis]

ditto that

 

[Azeroth]

should i get a command reference? any other book, someone told me about running linux by matt welsh or something

 

[velvtelvis]

yeah, that's the one
O'reilly is the publisher.

I did my first linux instal with nothing but stuff i printed off the net and man pages.

Check out the free stuff first.

Spending money on anything for linux kinda defeats the purpose, imho.

 

[Azeroth]

<< I did my first linux instal with nothing but stuff i printed off the net and man pages.
Check out the free stuff first. >>



Any prefered linx?

 

[Phatty]

no joke - &quot;linux for dummies&quot;

 

[Azeroth]

up!

 

[Azeroth]

<< should i get a command reference? any other book, any good links with great docs for Newbies? >>

 

[velvtelvis]

debian or slackware if you wanna learn linux
mandrake if you just wanna use it

It actualy took me months to get X up and running the way I wanted it, but that forced me to get real familiar with the console, which is a good thing.

I still use console aps for most things when i'm on that machine

 

[MGMorden]

I personally like Linux for Dummies, but I got it way after I learned linux so I just use it as a reference. It's very good for looking up a command or how to do something though.

 

[aceO07]

I bought Linux in a Nutshell by O'Reilly. It's a quick (command)reference and it was 50% off sale. I like it since I don't always want to stare at the screen. I recently networked my linux/win98 laptop to win2k machine. HOWTO was very helpful..!

I'm a newbie linux user too. Wasn't too hard to install linux. I use slackware. Now I don't know what to do with it.. besides web browsing

 

[TheRouterNinja]

Oreily books all the way!

 

[Zach]

I've gotten more from Linux in a Nutshell than any of my regular books (maybe my Apache Bible helped).

 

[Azeroth]

I've heard the unleashed by sams books are good and the wrox are good also on linux covering!
is it true that linux unleashed is for intermediate an wrox too??