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mystika1

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Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« on: August 07, 2010, 12:49:02 PM »
Hi, I would like to get a book to help me learn about the command line for this distro. I am confused as to what I need to look for. They have tons of Linux books for Debian, Fedora and so on. I want help that pertains to the command line in PCLinuxOS. Any recomendations?


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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2010, 01:01:04 PM »
Hi, I would like to get a book to help me learn about the command line for this distro. I am confused as to what I need to look for. They have tons of Linux books for Debian, Fedora and so on. I want help that pertains to the command line in PCLinuxOS. Any recomendations?


Thanks,

Penny

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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2010, 01:08:49 PM »
Thank you. Now I can really start learning how to use linux.  :) I was very confused.

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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2010, 02:15:54 PM »
If Mark G. Sobell's A Practical Guide to Linux is still in print, that would give you more information than you'll ever need. If not -- did you see the thread with the link to http://www.techremedy.net/blog/?p=192? (Using the command line is more or less the same as writing shell scripts.)
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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2010, 06:06:31 PM »
 :D Thanks so much! I will load my e-book reader tonight!

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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help. {LINUX ALL ALL Books}
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2010, 08:37:33 AM »
I'm a little late, but let me put in my two books' worth, both from O'Reilly:

Running Linux by Matt Welch, Lar Kaufmann, and Matthias Kalle Dalheimer - I believe this is available in .pdf format from O'Reilly's Safari site (not to be confused with the browser of the same name).  There have been at least four editions of this book and it just keeps getting better.  It is more of a broad overview of all things Linux than it is just a command line guide, but it's worth having in your library if you're serious about learning Linux.

LInk:  http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007607/ (to the new 5th Edition!)

Linux Pocket Guide by Daniel Barrett - this is the book you literally want in your back pocket.  I have my copy tabbed out for quick reference.  If you want to know how to do something at the command line, this book will at least get you started, and most times will get you finished quicker than anything else I've read.

Link:  http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006280/

They also publish a Linux Desktop Pocket Guide, but I haven't held that one in my hands yet. I'll be looking for it, though.  The pocket guides are cheap (usually around ten bucks American) and designed to fit in the back pocket of a pair of Levis jeans easily.

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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2010, 09:03:29 AM »
Also download rute. I think it's in the repos.
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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2010, 01:38:43 PM »
If you really want a book you could do worse than :-

Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible Not cheap at $31.49 though...

...and when you become an Uber CLI geek you can post your finds on:-

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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2010, 12:05:04 PM »
Hi, I would like to get a book to help me learn about the command line for this distro. I am confused as to what I need to look for. They have tons of Linux books for Debian, Fedora and so on. I want help that pertains to the command line in PCLinuxOS. Any recomendations?


Thanks,

Penny


If you don't mind used books, here's a great source (this is just Linux books, they have about everything).  Great prices!

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?binding=&mtype=B&keyword=linux&hs.x=0&hs.y=0&hs=Submit

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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2010, 06:21:22 PM »
Thanks to all of you. I will have plenty of reading material for a while.  ;D


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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2010, 09:06:36 PM »
Also download rute. I think it's in the repos.

It is. Open Synaptic and search for rute. Synaptic will put it in /usr/share/doc/rute-0.9.1/rute.pdf.
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Re: Need a good Linux book suggestion to help.
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2010, 09:30:53 AM »
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,67045.msg662743.html#msg662743

i find linux+ in depth and the other one quite good and easy to read, taking you from pure basics up.

http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Certification-Nutshell-Jeffrey-Dean/dp/1565927486  follow the books below the main on in this link (dean's)

http://www.littleigloo.org/show_books.php3?cat=001

even though they say professional in the title, dont get intimidated, they are detailed, and stuff explained in simple manner with workable examples

have fun, once you get the books, youll need loads of music along to read with ;)