From: Mark Conway (mconway35 at domain eircom.net)
Date: Wed 25 Sep 2002 - 10:17:02 IST
Thanks very much Gavin. Will deffinatley give the books a shot.
Irish Linux Users Group <ilug at domain linux.ie> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Another book that's very recommended reading is O'Reilly's "Running Linux".
> As far as I recall it's perhaps a little more general than just redhat
> which is no harm as you probably havn't permanently chosen a distro yet.
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/
>
> It's usually available from Waterstones, Hodges Figgis or Easons. A book
> or two like those mentioned is very handy but an internet connection is
> utterly invaluable. The Howtos, books etc on
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org
>
> are extremely useful. Also mailing lists like this one. You can learn an
> awful lot just by reading them. If you're starting out, much of it will be
> over your head but scan for things you do understand even loosely and read
> them. There's a lot of guys on ILUG that really know their stuff. You'll
> pick a lot of different ideas, solutions and other stuff up. Also, when
> you have a problem, do a bit of googling, searching manpages etc then if
> that fails mail the list and you'll get a good answer to most things.
> People tend to get grumpy if you mail them without trying for yourself
> first ;)
>
> Also, if you start to read it a lot and arn't using the digest version,
> consider using a threaded mail client. This groups and indents
> conversations and makes it easier to follow the list eg kmail (although I
> use mutt personally):
>
> http://kmail.kde.org/kmailreview/figure2.png
> http://www.mutt.org/screenshots/index.gif
>
> Anyway, enjoy and try not to get frustrated, it can be quite hard at first,
> but it is *definitely* worth the initial learning curve,
>
> Gavin
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Colin Nevin wrote:
>
> > Buy a good book and have a machine to play around with would be the
> > cheapest option:-
> >
> > For Euro64.77 you get the Red Hat 7.2 Bible by Christopher Negus
>
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 11:40, Mark Conway wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > Im just new to Linux (RH7.2), but would like to know more. Does anybody
> > > know of any Linux / Unix courses in the South Dublin Area or City
> > > Centre (or anywhere)? I dont mean corporate stuff, im looking for
> > > something reasonalby affordable. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Mark Conway
>
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