On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Jason wrote:
>
> > anyone got any views, strong, weak or simply indifferent as to a book on
> > Linux Administration.
>
> Sadly not, with the wealth of information available in man-pages and on the
> Interweb I haven't really had course to find a book on Unix. I suspect JCM
> or his LinuxUser Magazine have probably reviewed lots of books over time and
> may have a recommendation.
;-) Let me have a think...I don't really know one all encompassing book
that's going to tell you *all* you need to know, the same as you can learn
everything from a Solaris book. There's a book out very recently (I can
look it up) for those moving from Windows environments to Linux
Administration, "Running Linux" is always an old favourite (my first Linux
book I believe), and then a number of programming guides also give a
rigorous introduction...what do you want to achieve? business or pleasure?
<snip ADSL>
> For instance, proper drivers are now in the kernel IIRC.
NO! You really don't want to go there, I was there and got burned badly by
the general flaky nature of the kernel drivers. The userspace drivers from
benoit are great and I believe now in a Debian package with even a
possible GNOME utility existing already. In an ideal world you wouldn't be
using a USB device and would simply fork out a few quid more (on the
average wires only install) and get a router. I couldn't under the
contract I had at the time and as everyone knows, I'm a nice person ;-)
Jon.
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