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Suggested Reading

These are just a few books that you may find helpful (depending on your skill level).

This is a good start for anyone new to computers and the internet. The titles may sound insulting, but they are realy helpful. They show some usefull shortcuts and use layman's terms throughout most of the "Dummies" books. You can find one for just about any application at dummies.com (they even have stuff totaly unrelated to computers).

This is the (almost) all inclusive FreeBSD bible. It's fairly straight forward and takes you step by step through installing and setting up a basic working OS. A must have for those new to FreeBSD. The majority of the technical content of this book is available from the FreeBSD web page

Remember the old DOS 2.x user manuals? This is it for UN*X! It is quick and to the point.
Name | Syntax | What it does | How to use it
This is a MUST for anyone using BSD, Linux, or SysV!

For the more advanced user out there. This goes into detail about real life situations that you can run into in a UN*X network. They even have one written specificlly for GNU/Linux ("Linux System Administration Handbook"), however it's not nearly as informative. A great reference book. It covers FreeBSD, Redhat Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX.

For those of you that want to make the most of your UN*X experience! This book tells you how to do a task in 20 different ways. It turns UN*X inside-out with great real life experiences. This is a great read. Full of humor too.

This book makes GNU/Linux almost idiot proof. It takes you step by step through manually configuring a Linux box. It doesn't place much focus on the special, distribution specific, configuration tools that come with some Linux distributions (Redhat, Mandrake, and others), but shows you how to do it the UN*X way instead.

Includes tips and tools that solve practical problems for the more advanced Linux user. Full of various obscure tricks you may need only once, but you'd wish you'd read it when the time to use them comes. This book should make your life with Linux much easier in the end. (Thanks for the suggestion Lance)

Quick, getting started guide to basic Samba configurations. Don't expect too much information from this book, but it's great for getting the general concept and examples of how you can get a cross platform network (UN*X & Windows) to work for you.

I'd like to know what you think of the books mentioned here. If there are any good books that you would like me to check out and possibly recommend then email me, james@hal-pc.org, with the title and author.

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