David G. Miller wrote:
John R Pierce <pierce@...> writes:
On 2/12/2013 4:51 PM, Bassem Sossan wrote:
I'm beginner with Linux... I have found a good resource, it's a book called "Beginning Red Hat Linux 9"... the centos's version that I've installed "centos 6"... Is this book may be compatible with Centos 6 ?
not really.
Red Hat Linux is ancient.
<SNIP> I started with Red Hat Linux 5 in 1998. Mind your manners when calling RHL 9 ancient or I'll come over and hit you with my walker.
That's "tease me about my age, and I'll beat you with my cane". <g> And RH9 was fine - that's what I ran on my firewall/router box for *years*, with few updates.
Advice to OP: Don't spend much money on treeware books about Linux in general or CentOS in particular. The technology moves fast enough that the book will be obsolete in six months to a year.
Yup, it's a problem. However, most stuff really doesn't change, if you're looking at administering it, or working on it (except for N33t k3wl GUIs....).
I work best with real books because I can easily dog-ear, underline, highlight, mark, etc. so I understand liking a real book.
Book molester!
If you really want to have a real book, take the time to visit a local book store that has a decent selection of technical books and page through some of the books there to see which author's style fits you. If you can afford it, spend the money and support your local book store.
<snip> And, of course, almost anything published by O'Reilly is going to be somewhere between good and really good: well-written, knowledgeable, and reliable.
mark "not getting a kickback from them, really!"