Re: "UNIX In Plain English" by Kevin Richard & Eric F. Johnson, MIS Press. (Reading List HOWTO)

[Paul Newman pgen com]

Let's not start a flame war, but you could make the same argument about burning
CDs of linux distributions (instead of buying official distributions) cheating
its authors out of their share options. I presume the author chose to make this
available on line, so be it. My opinion on this (for what its worth) is that
very few people would print out the book and bind it up - it's so much easier to
get a nicely-sized bound book - especially given that it's dozens of HTML files
and not just one pdf file. Making the book available on line is not likely to
reduce sales - if you browse it and print it and like it then you will perhaps
buy it - it's a little bit like shareware.

However, I am lucky to have access to decent printing and binding machines so I
can take advantage of these free books : - )

If you're tight like me there are loads of freebie books available (such as:

Gimp Manual
Grokking the Gimp
Whos afraid of C++
Samba book
Debian book
Python documentation
PHP documentation
Perl documentation
HTML / XML etc documentation
LDP guides and HOWTOs
...
...)
and long live it!!
Not to mention Project Gutenberg etc.
Any other cheapos like me check out softparanoia and oswg.org (which you should
check out anyway if you are into Open Source), oh, and, please, email me URLs of
other good free Linux-related books!!






pnews gnv fdt net on 28/03/2000 16:48:21

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Actually, I have the same book in hard cover. It is very informative as a
reference book for what does what in UNIX, but the same information is
available on the net if you search for it -- and why not buy the book? It
is only $14.95 or less and it is intellectual property. By passing it
around the author is cheated out of his commission on sales, which he
aptly deserves for writing it.

Hank
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 Paul Newman pgen com wrote:
>
>
> > Yes, me please - oh and please if you know the URL or could put it on the
web
> > somewhere, then that would be great -
> > maybe ESR would then be able to refer to it in the Reading List HOWTO.
>
> Thank's to all who are interested. First of all I made a small mistake on
> my part the book is indeed by the same authors and contains identical
> material, but the title is "LINUX in plain english" not "UNIX in plain
> english", sorry for the confusion but it contains the same material that
> UNIX in plain english contains, please see the books description below...
>
> I uploaded a gzipped tar file which is about 330k and which can be
> downloaded from
> <http://netptune.spaceports.com/~kalum/Linux_In_Plain_English.tar.gz> .
>
> Sorry I didn't upload a zip file because the zip was about 1.3 MB. If
> someone is interested in getting a zip archive I can upload it tomorrow if
> it is necessary.
>
> For the people who mailed me asking me to mail them a copy of the book,
> I'm sorry my friends, but I can't mail all of you a 300K mail (I use a
> dialup) so if there is someone who *absolutely* needs to get it by mail
> only, please do tell me and I will try to oblige.
>
> Here is a small description copied from the distribution.......
>
> Title:Linux in Plain English
>
> Author(s):Patrick Volkerding, Kevin Reichard, Eric Foster-Johnson
> Imprint:M&T Books
> Publisher:IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.
> ISBN:1558285423
>
> Finally, here is a well-organized, essential reference for the growing
> number of LINUXr users. This book provides instant access to the LINUX
> commands and concepts that LINUX users are confronted with every day. The
> first section contains a listing of common LINUX user tasks, in plain
> English, with a corresponding LINUX command. Another section cross
> references DOS commands with LINUX equivalents. A major portion of this
> handy reference is devoted to grouping LINUX commands by type.
> Additionally, an alphabetic cross reference exists for those times when
> you know exactly what LINUX command you need to use.
>
> Includes detailed listings of all LINUX commands
>
> Covers all of the GNU command set and the LINUX Bash Shell
>
> Details LINUX windows manager and fvwm
>
> Includes X commands from the LINUX X Windows System: XFree86
>
> Covers File Manipulation, Text Processing, Printing, Internet, and FTP and
> System Administration
>
>
> Grendel
>
>
> Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread
> :)
>
>
>
>
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