From: umisef@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Bernd Meyer) Subject: Re: Fairly good book Date: 8 Jul 1992 22:16:30 GMT
qs101@cl.cam.ac.uk (Quentin Stafford-Fraser) writes:
>If you are new to unix, or, like me, you've never had a root password
>before, you might be interested in a book I've just come across:
> "Unix for Super-Users" by E. Foxley
> Addison-Wesley
> (International Computer Science Series)
> ISBN 0 201 14228 7
Well, I bought the German translation a few days ago, and from the
point of Linuxing it is not what I had hoped to get. It has a lot
of info in it, though (at least in the translation) I dislike the
style of it - somehow like "We let you share in just a little of
what w know. Of course, there is much more to it, but you shouldn't
bother, though we of course know".
But the main problem is that it assumes that you have the standard
Un*x documentation handy - and thus just tells you what you could do if
you had the documentation to look up how to do it. Very awful for
Linux.
That's for now,
bye,
Bernie