[TriLUG] No books for SuSE

[Mike M]

On Friday 07 February 2003 08:45, Ron Joffe wrote:

+1

>  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.

This method has helped me with RH, Mandrake, and Debian.  Distros differ by 
installation (pretty graphic), initialization (2 basic methods), and package 
management methods (rpm or apt).  Most everything else they offer is common 
between them.  Stuff that is different is esoteric and probably not in the 
distro specific manual.

If your mail client allows it, send all email from the high volume group to a 
separate folder that is organized by subject ot thread ti visually control 
the signal to noise ratio.

Googling is powerful resource as well.  Got something funny displayed on the 
screen?  Type it in to Google with the word "Linux"  and more often than not 
you'll not be the first person having seen that display.

It's a positive experience to research a problem to exhaustion, formulate a 
simple question, and engage the community in its solution.  In addition you 
help build the knowledge base accessible through Google (or your choice of 
search engine).
-- 
Mike M.