Re: Linux Books

[Eric Richardson <milagro@milagrosoft.com>]

"George M. Butler" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help.  I
> am new to
> Linux but have some
> limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just
> discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to buy books related
> to my job.
> I am a member of a mathematics faculty so naturally Linux is job
> related.  I would
> be interested
> to hear from the contributors of this list what are their favorite
> Linux, Unix,
> Networking,  Programming Language,  or related books.
> 
> Titles I already own  are:
> 
> Unix,  System V, Release 4, Rosen et al, McGraw Hill, 1990,
> Common Lisp, Steele Jr, Digital Press, 1984,
> A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp, Digital Press, 1987,
> Linux in a Nutshell, Siever, O'Rielly, 2nEd, 1999,
> Learning Debain/Gnu Linux, Mc Carty, O'Reilly, 1999,
> C++, How to Program, Dietel & Dietel, Prentice Hall, 2nd ed, 1998,
> Running Linux, Welsh et al, O'Reilly, 1999,
> C++ Primer, Lippman & Lajoie, Addison Wesley, 1998.
> The TeX Book, Knunth,  Addison-Wesley, 1984,
> 

I think this book is very good.
Unix System Administration Handbook 
3rd Ed. 2001 Evi Nemeth et al.
ISBN 0-13-020601-6

Hope this helps,
Eric :-)