Hi,
I'm currently busy finishing "Linux aux petits oignons", a practical introduction to Linux, aimed primarily at the frustrated Windows user. This is the first of two volumes, it's written in french, and all examples in the book are based on CentOS. (Note: looks like I'll have to update some screenshots to 5.3 :oD)
Usually the first question that arises is: why not base your book on Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE/whatever? I answer that question in the book, but in short: I'm using Linux professionally, both on server and desktop, and my distro of choice for both is CentOS. It's one of those rare distros where you login and everything Just Works(tm). I'm aware of the few drawbacks (recent hardware, latest version of apps, yadda yadda), but I can live with that.
Another thing you will maybe notice: I'm not shy about introducing newbies to the commandline. Usually Linux books for beginners seem more and more GUI-centered, but I'm taking the opposite way, preferring to explain simple and basic UNIX concepts. (The heck if I lose 90% of prospective readers who will rather go off and buy "Simple comme Ubuntu" :oD)
Here's the - almost - final version of the manuscript. It will go to the graphist sometime next week. Until then, maybe you're curious and want to take a glimpse:
http://www.kikinovak.net/download/LinuxAuxPetitsOignons.pdf http://www.kikinovak.net/download/Captures.tar.gz
If you have any comments, suggestions, if you want to point out the odd typo or mistake, feel free to do so. I can take them into account until maybe the end of next week, before the folks in the layout department do their job.
One last thing: since this is not the final version, please don't disseminate it too much.
Enjoy,
Niki Kovacs (a.k.a Kiki Novak)
At Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:38:40 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently busy finishing "Linux aux petits oignons", a practical introduction to Linux, aimed primarily at the frustrated Windows user. This is the first of two volumes, it's written in french, and all examples in the book are based on CentOS. (Note: looks like I'll have to update some screenshots to 5.3 :oD)
Are there plans for an English version / translation?
Usually the first question that arises is: why not base your book on Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE/whatever? I answer that question in the book, but in short: I'm using Linux professionally, both on server and desktop, and my distro of choice for both is CentOS. It's one of those rare distros where you login and everything Just Works(tm). I'm aware of the few drawbacks (recent hardware, latest version of apps, yadda yadda), but I can live with that.
Another thing you will maybe notice: I'm not shy about introducing newbies to the commandline. Usually Linux books for beginners seem more and more GUI-centered, but I'm taking the opposite way, preferring to explain simple and basic UNIX concepts. (The heck if I lose 90% of prospective readers who will rather go off and buy "Simple comme Ubuntu" :oD)
Here's the - almost - final version of the manuscript. It will go to the graphist sometime next week. Until then, maybe you're curious and want to take a glimpse:
http://www.kikinovak.net/download/LinuxAuxPetitsOignons.pdf http://www.kikinovak.net/download/Captures.tar.gz
If you have any comments, suggestions, if you want to point out the odd typo or mistake, feel free to do so. I can take them into account until maybe the end of next week, before the folks in the layout department do their job.
One last thing: since this is not the final version, please don't disseminate it too much.
Enjoy,
Niki Kovacs (a.k.a Kiki Novak) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Robert Heller a écrit :
At Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:38:40 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently busy finishing "Linux aux petits oignons", a practical introduction to Linux, aimed primarily at the frustrated Windows user. This is the first of two volumes, it's written in french, and all examples in the book are based on CentOS. (Note: looks like I'll have to update some screenshots to 5.3 :oD)
Are there plans for an English version / translation?
No, unfortunately not. I'm not an english native speaker. (Neither am I a french native speaker, I'm Austrian :oD). So any translation projects would have to be undertaken by a third party.
I posted this message on the list, since I reckon some folks here are either French, or at least read French sufficiently.
cheers,
Niki
Are there plans for an English version / translation?
No, unfortunately not. I'm not an english native speaker. (Neither am I a french native speaker, I'm Austrian :oD). So any translation projects would have to be undertaken by a third party.
I posted this message on the list, since I reckon some folks here are either French, or at least read French sufficiently.
cheers,
Niki
Well, your English is not bad for a non-native speaker. I suppose you mean to say you do not necessarily think in English but you can in French?
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