missing programs, books for beginners?

[gpc]

I like Mark G. Sobell's books. Try "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux".
He also has a good Red Hat book, "A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux".

Steve wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:34:10 +0100, Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 15:29 -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote:
>>     
>>> Sharon Ruck wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Howdy!
>>>>         
> <Snip>
>   
>>>> Is there a book or group of books I should invest in, I REALLY want
>>>> to send MS to the trash.  I have learned a bunch just watching this
>>>> list for a week or so.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions, I'll go back to listening.
>>>> Sharon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> This one if free.. I haven't looked over it at all, but it should
>>> contain lots of relevant information. Plus it's free!
>>>
>>> http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/index_main.html
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> This book suggest the upgrade path from 8.04 LTS is to a non-LTS
>> version?  This doesn't make sense.
>>
>> I was under the impression that the upgrade for 8.04 LTS has not been
>> released yet since I believe LTS users would certainly want to upgrade
>> to the next "LTS" release?
>>
>>     
> You have two choices. Stay with LTS releases or, step through the usual  
> releases.  So from 8.04 you can wait to 10.4 or go to 8.10 then to 9.04  
> and onwards.
>
>
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