The Free World: Recent Linux Books
I’m on Pearson’s book reviewer list so once a month or so I get sent another Linux book from them. In a lot of cases, the book hasn’t been released yet and what I get is a draft manuscipt. In other cases, the books are on the shelf.
In any case, it’s been about 4 months since they’ve sent me anything and in the last month alone I’ve been sent three books. They all looks great and they all fit a different niche.
Here’s the run down of what I’ve been looking at this month (note, these are NOT affiliate links. Click away):
The Linux Starter Kit
This is a ’software box’ with a full SUSE 10.1 DVD in it and a 150 page ‘quick start’ manual to get you up and running. It’s geared towards the new SUSE user, and perhaps the new Linux user, but not the new computer user. The instructions are good, but they’re probably too brief for a novice computer user. Great for those of us who are relatively comfortable with computers and want to dive right in.
The Linux Phrase Book
Great for people who work with Linux. It’s not a narrative book at all, it’s a reference pocket book that has a quick index for pretty much every command you can think of. Great stuff.
The Official Ubuntu Book
This guy isn’t on the shelves yet. In fact, I just got it a few days ago and haven’t really had a good look at it yet. It’s direct from the Ubuntu clan, however, so it’s bound to be bang on the money. I’ll post more about it when I get further into it.
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