linux book recommendations

**crash187ct** · 09-01-2006, 10:21 AM

slight beginner in linux, i've used it...but never went in depth of the file system. but since what i've learned has been on my own, i feel like there may be some gaps, or things that i'm missing. does anyone have any recommendations for linux books, preferrebly fedora core 3-5, or redhat? i'm looking for more than just "using gaim" "using firefox" i'm looking for more information on using/securing/installing apps those types of things. thanks in advance

**miked512** · 09-11-2006, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by crash187ct

slight beginner in linux, i've used it...but never went in depth of the file system. but since what i've learned has been on my own, i feel like there may be some gaps, or things that i'm missing. does anyone have any recommendations for linux books, preferrebly fedora core 3-5, or redhat? i'm looking for more than just "using gaim" "using firefox" i'm looking for more information on using/securing/installing apps those types of things. thanks in advance

The book I like is the O'Reilly book "Unix System Administration". It covers a wide range of topics that you'll uncover in a Unix or Linux system. I mean, you can either do that or read all of the manpages you can find.

It might have an Essential in it but I don't remember. I loaned it to a friend of mine. Its the blue armadillo book.

**zimmy** · 09-11-2006, 11:22 AM

Yah o'reilly is alright... a lil basic... might wanna try the unix bible or the study guide for RHCE... personally... my suggestion is to stop using windows and / gui ... force yourself to learn / depend on unix / linux.

**crash187ct** · 09-14-2006, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by zimmy

Yah o'reilly is alright... a lil basic... might wanna try the unix bible or the study guide for RHCE... personally... my suggestion is to stop using windows and / gui ... force yourself to learn / depend on unix / linux.

i like that idea...thanks for the recommendations fellas.

**Sapper** · 10-25-2006, 06:11 PM

If you really want to learn Linux, install Gentoo manually instead of using an installer program. They've got a tutorial on their site that walks you through it; from partitioning to mounting, untarring and building the kernal, chrooting the system and then adding in the packages you want.

I used RH for years, but really didn't get good with Linux until I had to do manual Gentoo installs for work.
http://www.gentoo.org

**SP129** · 10-26-2006, 04:20 AM

Just installing Gentoo doesnt make u a linux god, theres a step by step to install, then what. he's trying to learn how to use linux, not just how to act like ur a know it all by installing gentoo stage 1

**rafael** · 11-13-2006, 05:35 PM

anything by oreilly is a god bet for starters. I myself dual boot gentoo64 2006.1 and gentoo rr4 64. Also SuSE came out with some ebooks for suse 9.1 and on i believe.

ps - stage 3 tarballs for me :P

**crash187ct** · 11-13-2006, 09:20 PM

nice, thanks guys.

**Psychotron** · 11-14-2006, 07:42 AM

About the most I used my linux install for is running all my network simulations on ns-2. Fedora Core 6 for myself, runs like butter on my AMD x64 system.