10 Free Linux Ebooks For Beginners
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For any of us who have tried to learn Linux, we realize how difficult it can be. It is not that Linux itself is hard to learn, but it is the fact we want to do things in Linux like we do in Windows. This can make learning Linux a frustrating experience. Well there is a site that offers 10 free Linux start guides.
According to the author the site is for beginners:
Last time we did a free book collection 2 years ago it was a hit among Linux users and rightfully so, who doesn’t like free books? No matter how experienced you are with Linux systems, there is always something new you can learn from a good book that focuses on specific aspects of a Linux system. While our old list was an ‘OK’ list, it wasn’t structured properly and most of the links are broken by now. This time we tried to make a list of free books by categories. “Beginners”, “Advanced” and “Administrators”.
This is the first part of the series, in the near future we will have a list for“Intermediate and Advanced Linux Users” and “Linux System Administrators”. If you have any suggestions feel free to share them with us in the comments.
So if you are thinking of giving Linux a try, check out these free guides for assistance.
If you know of any other free Linux guides or help sites, please let us know.
Comments welcome.
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randy
May 11th, 2009
at 2:17pm
Interested in the list of Linux ebooks, but where is the list?
randy
Ryan Farmer
May 11th, 2009
at 2:30pm
People are creatures of habit.
I actually found it more frustrating working between XP and Vista than I do between Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mandriva.
Microsoft actually copied a lot of UNIX concepts with Vista, they implemented them wrong of course, but you can plainly see that in UAC and the idea of a user folder that you always have permission to write to.
The problem is that the WIndows ecosystem is hostile to a concept of security from so many years of Microsoft letting programs doing precisely whatever the hell they like, so 90% of the stuff you run on Vista will still figure that it can write anywhere, and this has introduced massive code bloat in Vista to attempt (unsuccessfully sometimes) to redirect this without the program being fixed or the user becoming involved.
A huge problem with proprietary software is that when the company behind it stops working on it, it dies, nobody ever has the source code or the rights to modify it, so with Windows and Mac you invariably get a graveyard of good software that is broken by the latest Windows or Mac OS, or keeps working but not right.
I believe at this point, Wine on Linux is more compatible with Windows 98 than Vista is
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May 11th, 2009
at 7:26pm
Hi Randy,
Click on the ‘Source’ link. It will take you directly to the Linux ebooks.
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