Books on Linux

[Floppyman]

Hi all,

What are some good book out there that explain the various parts and help you learn linux? Currently, I only have O Reilly's "Learning Red Hat Linux", and it's a pretty good book, but I'd like to learn more. Thanks in Advance.

[Computer Hobbyist]

Hi Floppyman

I happen to own the same O'Reilly book and have found it to be very good. Its only draw back is that it is written like a cook book--long on "how to" but short on theory. You might try looking at the Linuxnewbie.org bookshelf. It provides a guide to all kinds of Linux books.

BTW since I have you, I have to replace my Linux box. My FIC VA-503+ mobo has gone belly up and I am thinking about upgrading to one of the new, faster Celerons (I only cruise the net and learn Linux on the machine, and I don't want to spend more than $250 or so including a new ATX case and power supply.) Is an ASUS TUSL2-C a good choice or should I look at another mobo?

CH

[Floppyman]

Thanks for the info Computer Hobbyist. To me that board sounds like a great choice. I don't know as to how much support linux would provide for the chipset etc. of the board though, as it is pretty recent. I haven't had any experience with the board itself however, but Asus makes quality motherboards. Perhaps someone else out there has had experience with this board???

HTH

[lionel_hutz]

Floppydude...a great idea to compliment your book collection is to pick up a book on the actual shell you are running, I assume it is Bash (most distro's default) so i can (and will) recommend O'rielly Learning the Bash Shell by Cameron Newham & Bill Rosenblatt (ISBN 1-56592-347-2) It is a typical O'rielly effort, thorough, well written, easy to read and covers everything from the history file and keyboard habits to coroutines and process substitution. Anyhow, damn good book IMHO.

Hutz

[Toaster]

Hello there Flopster,
A book I found quite useful is "Linux System Commands" printed by M&T.
It carries ISBM# 0-7645-4669-4.
The book is pretty "long haired" meaning its quite indepth but also quite technical. It has good theory and uses "Linux" as a whole rather then a particular distro. Another good thing is that it deals with UNIX as well which is fully portable through both Linux and other forms of Unix.
It gives gory detail on virtually all commands. Sometimes the detail is actually excessive. Still a good reference.