[CLUE-Tech] Good UNIX/Linux primer?

[Randy Arabie]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> 
> I was asked a question that stumped me. What is a good UNIX primer? Is the
> "purple" book a good one? Thoughts? The intent for now, anyway, would be
> more to learn tasks that a user/developer would do, and some minimal admin
> tasks, as well.
> 
> Thanks,

My first Linux book was "Sam's Teach Yourself Linux in 21 Days."  It worked 
for me.  I was a non-programmer, Windows centric, never-used-unix luser.

My next purchase was O'Reilly's Unix In a Nutshell, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixnut3/  
As mentioned previously, that is a fantastic reference.  

If that is what your after, I would suggest splurging for O'Reilly's "Unix CD 
Bookshelf" which is six books on CD --> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixcdbs2/  
The cool thing is they are all in HTML, so I dumped them onto one of my boxen 
at home...always there, easy to search, very handy.
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Cheerio!

Randy

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