[Cialug] New Linux User orientation?

[David Champion]

I don't think I have a copy of that any more... it would be a little out 
of date, when did we do the boot camp? I think it was like 2000 or 2001.

-dc

John Roach wrote:
> Anyone have a copy of the Boot camp book in digital form if so I would 
> say post it on the web site for instances like this.
>
> John Roach
>
> David Champion wrote:
>   
>> It's been a long time since I've looked at Linux books. The O'Reilly 
>> "Running Linux" book by Matt Welsh used to be a pretty good beginner's 
>> book, I haven't seen the latest edition, so I don't know how up to date 
>> it is:
>>
>> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596002725
>>
>> Another more advanced book I used as a reference a lot early on was 
>> "Essential System Administration":
>>
>> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003432/
>>
>> -dc
>>
>> Matt Breitbach wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> So I'm foraying into the linux world hot and heavy.
>>>
>>> I'd love to find some good resources for new linux users - I don't need to
>>> know how to use GIMP, I don't need to know how to tweak the user interface,
>>> I need to know the meat and potatoes of Linux.  Mounts, permissions, file
>>> sharing, user management, etc.
>>>
>>> Anyone know of a good book or site that covers this information without
>>> going into extra crap that I don't need? 
>>>