on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:22:15PM -0500, George M. Butler (butler@tcainternet.com) 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 have to spend the money by May 1. I hope this message is not off > topic but I feel lots would be interested to hear the responses of the > readers of this list. Thanks for your help. Nice basic selection. My own prefs: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/linux-books.html Beyond the basics, my strategy is to pick up texts that cover topics of interest. O'Reilly, Wiley, Morgan Kaufman, Prentice Hall, are good imprints. I shy away from anything with "Idiots", "Dummies", "Unleashed!", "24 Hours" or similar, in its title. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ 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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