Re: [TCLUG:18442] What books do you recommend for a newbie?

[Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

You might want to chek out www.bookpool.com.  They have 40+% off of every O'Reilly book I've ever bought there.

And their shipping is unbelievably cheap!

Gabe

> 
> 
> Well, unfortunately, no.  Amazon and Fatbrain both list it for the same
> ($28) price.  I bought my copy for the full $35 at Barnes and Noble when I
> set up Debian on my laptop, and would do it again in a heartbeat.  Saved
> me a lot of headaches.
> 
> There is a pretty good synopsis at www.kuro5hin.org.
> 
> O'Reilly books are usually pretty expensive, but they are the only ones
> that I have problems with the binding wearing out...
> 
> Good Luck...
> 
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, Lord Xoi wrote:
> 
> > on 5/31/00 7:02 PM, Chad O. Thompson at cothomps@visi.com wrote:
> > 
> > I don't suppose you know where I can get it cheap?  Linux Central has it
> > (3rd edition) for 28 bucks.
> > 
> > > 
> > > "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh (an O'Reilly book) is a pretty good
> > > introduction to just about *every* topic you'll run into.  The book does a
> > > good job of also pointing out other resources (like appropriate HOWTO
> > > docs) you might need.
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Lord Xoi wrote:
> > > 
> > >> The title pretty much says it all.
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> -Lord Xoi
> > >> 
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