Hello Bernard... Just to give you a pointer about Linux: If you're new, Fedora and Ubuntu are both relatively easy to learn, but powerful (I've never used Ubuntu (or Debian, for that matter), but I hear that Ubuntu is a really great distro). Stay away from Slackware and Gentoo, at least until you've had the chance to familiarize yourself with Linux. I made the mistake of attempting a stage 1 Gentoo install on a PII machine with hardly any experience. (Fortunately, the PII was so slow that I had time to read the manual completely before each step). It booted up fine when I was done, but it was rough (even with extensive documentation ).
I'm not saying that Slackware and Gentoo are useless, as both are *extremely* powerful OS's (Gentoo is my favorite OS other than OpenBSD). They do require quite a bit of knowledge just to get them installed, however, and therefore are not good choices for someone just beginning with Linux. Jonathon Python wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 11:33 -0400, Bernard Lebel wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Sorry to use this list for such an OT subject. But I want to get hands >> down with Linux, and am looking for a book or two on the subject. >> >> I'm looking for information about installation, configuration, >> optimisation, and management of the Linux OS. > > If you are new to Linux, you're likely to be best helped by a book that > matches your distribution, e.g. "Ubuntu Linux" or "Ubuntu Unleashed". > (Not to push you to Ubuntu; I'm running Fedora myself.) These books > provide shallow coverage of everything and will give the background > needed to make good use of the system documentation. They will also > point you to yum, synaptic, smart or whatever package management system > makes sense with your chosen distribution. The package managers greatly > simplify system administration. > > There are books devoted to packages: SSH, Sendmail, DNS/Bind, Apache, > Samba, etc. so you may need to get additional books depending on how you > use your computer. "Linux in a Nutshell" (mine is 5th edition) provides > a useful reference. There are also books like "Linux Debugging and > Performance Tuning" which are more system oriented. "Moving to the > Linux Business Desktop" is useful for finding your way among all of the > available desktop applications. Linux is a pretty broad subject so > there's a huge range of books from which to pick. > >> >> >> Thanks >> Bernard >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
