Free Book for learning Ubuntu /Linux

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Mon May 26 09:04:19 UTC 2008


SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:


[rutebook]
> Be aware of: 
> Looking at the front page I see it is from 2001 ...
> ... and that seems quite old stuff !?

Yes, some parts are a bit out of date, but most oft the book is still
fine. 

You may safely ignore the chapter about hardware ;-) The chapters
about configuring specific software usually could give you some basic
idea what's it about, but you should cponsult the software's docs to
do the real work. On most systems lpr and lilo are replaced by CUPS
and grub, so you may ignore that chapters. uucp is hardly used any
more. In the chapters about the kernel and X some important modern
things are missing (like udev, 3D graphics support).


   Florian
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