[TriLUG] OT: Linux/UNIX book recommendations needed

[bp]

The O'reiley "Unix Books on CD" is pretty good.  You can mount the cd and 
drop a symlink in your apache/htdocs dir to have info at your disposal.  
Also provides a nifty search engine/app (works on linux) makes finding 
stuff easy.
-bp 


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Greg Brown wrote:

> A good friend of mine landed a job down in CLT and he has to learn 
> about system administration of all things command line.  Not only does 
> he need to know administration he needs to learn about the general 
> workings and operations of:
> 
> UNIX (AIX, Solaris, and maybe HP-UX)
> Linux (not sure which distro, probably RH)
> BSD (unsure of which distro, probably FreeBSD)
> 
> (I've already told him to get on the list, get some extra hardware 
> thrown together, and install the some distros).
> 
> Marty, the friend who landed the job, already has a strong background 
> in MS systems as well as routed networks from the very tiny to the 
> very, very large.  He's smarter than the average bear so he's able to 
> pick things up fairly quickly, but the books still have to cover the 
> basics then hopefully progress to more difficult topics.  That said, 
> what books do you recommend?
> 
> I was thinking of Essential System Administration by Aeleen Frisch 
> would be a good one.
> 
> What are the other good ones?
> 
> Greg
> 
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