on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 11:18:59AM +1100, Chris Kenrick (chriskenrick@iname.com) wrote: > One of my ex workmates has shown signs of being interested in experimenting with > Linux. She is, however, quite knowledgeable about computers, > programming IBM mainframes for some time. > > I'm planning on giving her one of the 'live CDS', probably either the > Linuxcare BBC or the SUSE 7 Live file system CD (not Debian, but > _very_ cool nonetheless). Thus she can use it on either her work PC > or work provided home PC without reformatting (plus very safe > environment .. do something bad as root, reboot, changes gone!). > > This leads to my question: What can I point her to in order to give > her a starting point for 'investigating'? Basically anything that is > likely to spark her interest in Linux as a great OS .. given her > background she prefers 'hands on' style computing to GUI buried > functionality. Any suggestions? > > - Chris See list archives for standard recommendations for starting GNU/Linux and Unix books. _Running Linux_ and _Linux in a Nutshell_ are my two starters. For dinosaurs making the transition, there's a reasonably good (but expensive) text called _Unix and MVS_, which does a reasonably good nice job of mapping concepts of one OS to the other. There are many architectural difference between the two systems, and understanding points of difference and commonality is very helpful. http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0070066639 I'd also strongly recommend Kernighan and Pike's _The UNIX Programming Environment_, again, , a good architectural guide to all that is GNU/Linux (well, verso a decade and a half and of fairly substantial implementation diffeences and a persistant misspelling of "GNU/Linux" as "Unix" <g>). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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