Sams Books for Linux

[Guest Longboarder]

Has anyone ever used any of the SAMS "Teach Yourself" books for learning Linux?

 

I have just put MDK 9.0 on my PC but I am a complete novice with Linux and wanted a book that would guide me through with some exercises etc.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Cheers

Longboarder

[Guest FenestraeNunquam]

When I bought mandrake 8.1 over a year ago, the first book I bought was Sam's Teach Yourself Mandrake Linux in 24 Hours.

 

Its not bad I guess, if you don't know anything about linux (which I didn't). I read thru the whole thing and learned a little about linux & mandrake in general.

 

btw - I hate admitting to the above, since I started the whole thread about For Dummies / Complete Idiots / Now What? books.

[SteamCat]

Make sure you grab a copy of Rute. :)

 

http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz

[Counterspy]

Download Rute and avoid Sams like the plague.

 

Counterspy

[johnnyv]

Download Rute and avoid Sams like the plague.

 

Counterspy

 

I agree i bought sams linux in 24hrs and i thought it was a complete waste of time & money

[Guest BlackSnow]

Stay right away from Sams - waste of trees/paper

 

Learn CGI in 24 hours is a fine example

[DragonMage]

Sam's books are usually a waste of paper they are printed on. Stick with O'Reilly if you really need printed books. Otherwise, either google it, search the howto or just ask on this board or usenet.

[bvc]

Once you get a few basics, open a terminal and type

rpm -qla | grep man

 

You'll get a list of the best manual ever! Then, find a topic of interest and type

man name_of_topic

 

for /usr/share/man/man1/echo type

man echo

and you get

NAME

      echo - display a line of text



SYNOPSIS

      echo [OPTION]... [STRING]...



DESCRIPTION

      NOTE:  your shell may have its own version of echo which will supercede

      the version described here. Please refer to your shell's  documentation

      for details about the options it supports.



      Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.



      -n     do not output the trailing newline



      -e     enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters listed

             below



      -E     disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGs



      --help display this help and exit



      --version

             output version information and exit



      Without -E, the following sequences are recognized and interpolated:



      NNN   the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)



    	   backslash



      a     alert (BEL)



      b     backspace



      c     suppress trailing newline



      f     form feed



      n     new line



      r     carriage return



      t     horizontal tab



      v     vertical tab

 

 

Has anyone read all of them? :wink:

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And that's just from a to part of g :shock:

[SteamCat]

Or just go to: http://linuxcommand.org/

 

and click on the SuperMan pages. :)

[Guest beeboy]

Ya, I agree Sam's sucks. Most stuff in print is already obsolete. Save your money and print off the web.

[Guest JaseP]

Beeboy is right. I have yet to see a Linux book in print that is up to date. Maybe they are out there, but they just aren't in wide circulation. If you find a Linux book that is 1-2 yrs. old it's way obsolete and won't help much except with basics. Besides, why pay for what you don't have to...

[Counterspy]

The idea of downloading and printing the How-To's and some Man Pages is an idea that I have followed. I know have eight 2.5 inch binders full of material better than any book for the main reason that it's up-to-date. When you exhaust the material already put in the documentation section of the main menu that Mandrake has provided for you, add http://www.tldp.org to the other sites you have in previous posts.

 

Counterspy