Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:13 AM, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> > wrote: >> >>> Red Hat Linux is ancient. >> <SNIP> > >> 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. I work best with real books because I >> can easily dog-ear, underline, highlight, mark, etc. so I understand liking >> a real book. > > But real books don't have that 'search' box up at the top... Les, that's what the index is for. <snip> > It is really unfortunate that neither paper books nor pdf's have > developed the technology to easily show you 'just' those changes so > you end up starting from scratch every time a developer decides to > make some small change. I've always wished for something where you > could input the version you know and get a description of the changes > between that and some current version. The good ones *do* tell you that, in examples, in appendices, on the CD they give you.... mark