[TriLUG] No books for SuSE

[Ron Joffe]

SuSE 8.1 Includes the following two manuals:

User Guide: 359 pages
Administration Guide: 496 Pages

They both contain a bunch of good stuff, but I would probably add an O'reilly 
book such as:

 Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
 Running Linux, 4th Edition 

Those O'reilly books should be generic enough to provide you with a very good 
working knowledge of most of the systems.

In addition SuSE has an excellent mailing list at : HTTP://lists.suse.com. The 
SuSE-linux-e mailing list is the one you want, but be warned there is a whole 
bunch of traffic on the mailing list. Somewhere on the order of 150 per day. 




On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:23 pm, Lee Fickenscher wrote:
> Well, it's hard to tell from the web site at:
> http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/i386/new_features.html
> but it seems that both 8.1 personal and professional should come with
> printed documentation. But I certainly couldn't swear to that. I think
> the reason there is so little available for Suse is 1) Their included
> documentation is really good on its own, and 2) RedHat pretty much owns
> the US market (and you certainly are in RedHat's back yard :-)   )
> Good Luck,
> Lee
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:30:57PM -0500, Mike Kelley wrote:
> > Actually no.  I got my copy from a friend.   However, I did see a copy of
> > SuSE 8.0 personal edition today which seemed to have no manual
> > whatsoever, given the weight of the box, but thanks for passing that
> > along, I'll check out the Pro version as soon as I can.  Still, though,
> > given the abundance of information on RedHat, I'm surprised there isn't
> > more available for SuSE.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lee Fickenscher" <elfick at trilug.org>
> > To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:50 PM
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] No books for SuSE
> >
> > > Mike,
> > > Are you using a store-bought copy?
> > > The manuals that came with Suse 8.0 were great and covered pretty much
> > > all of the Suse specific stuff. I'm not sure what they are packing with
> > > the newest version, but I suspect the docs would be of similar quality.
> > > -Lee
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:38:52PM -0500, Mike Kelley wrote:
> > > > I'm frustrated because I can't find a simple manual for SuSE.  There
> > > > are
> >
> > no current books on SuSE.  I've even inquired about ordering one but
> > there isn't on available.  Everything is at least two years old.  I've
> > been to several bookstores and there is a fair selection of non-specific
> > Linux books and dozens for RedHat (Consequently I'm beginning to hate
> > RedHat.) but nothing for SuSE.  What's the problem?  I really like the OS
> > and can't understand why there is virtually no printed information out
> > there.  I finally bought a couple of non-specific books and one RedHat
> > manual but had to post a message here just to find out why I don't have a
> > specific file or how the boot process works.  Any thoughts on the matter?
> >
> > > > Mike
> > >
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