Re: Newbie On XFree86

[Karl Pearson <karlp ourldsfamily com>]

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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Matt Drew wrote:

->there should be examples).  I would go even further than that, come to
->think of it, because most Microsoft documentation is that way too, and the
->Solaris stuff I've read is worse than both of those.

If you want to be confused sometime. I mean *REALLY* confused, try reading
any of the manuals that Motorola puts out for their SVR4 unix Powerstack
systems. And I'm a SENIOR Systems Analyst very familiar with HP/UX, AIX, SCO
(though I hate to admit it), Solaris, Linux and the windows systems produced
by Mr. Bill).

->
->This is why members of the Linux community often state that there is tons
->of documentation, while new users go "huh?" because they can't find the
->information they need to know -- namely, *why* something is the way it is
->and how it works, rather than how to configure it.

Actually, some of the HOWTOs are very good at this. Others are lacking...

->
->There are better books out there.  I highly recommend (still) Kabir's "Red
->Hat Linux 6 Server" as the seminal Red Hat 6.x book -- excellent
->descriptions and coverage.  Also, "Securing and Optimizing Linux, Red Hat
->Edition" by Mourani is fantastic (www.linuxdoc.org).  There are a ton of
->others, all recommended in their particular areas; O'Reilly tends to have
->a very high concentration of these, for some reason. :)
->
->Anyone else have some recommended books or favorites?

Even though some folks might not agree, I still like Chris Negus' book, Red
Hat Linux Bible. It doesn't go far enough, but it sure got me started right,
after learning more than I wanted to about Slackware...

->
->Matt

Karl Pearson
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