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Article #55866Re: Help find Dr. Linux in Australia
From: David Chatterton
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:00
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William Edward Webber wrote: > > On 27 Apr 1997 13:04:31 GMT, Minh Nguyen (aimy@ozemail.com.au) wrote: > : Hi > : I'm a new Linux convert and my level of linux is next to zero. Could someone > : help me find the lastest version of Dr. Linux in Aus please, as I'm having problem > : setting up the Linux box to connect to a Win95 workstation via ethernet and > : connect to the Internet using Linux. Any advice will be most welcome. > > I though Dr. Linux was just the LDP and HOWTOs in printed format. Not that > it is not useful to have them in printed format, but they should at least > be available in electronic format on your Linux distribution. > > That aside, I can't think who would have copies of Dr. Linux (Leonard Chan > sprang to mind, but I just checked his Web page and he doesn't list it). > Ask your favourite computer bookstore to order it in? (The Linux Bible is > much the same thing, and I _may_ have seen a copy of that as Software Today > in Elizabeth St, Melbourne, between Lonsdale and Little Lonsdale, so you > could have a look there.) > You might get a copy at the next swap meet, see http://www.comtrader.com.au/. For a beginner I believe it is a good idea to get this book. You might want to consider getting a distribution like Red Hat which is slightly easier to install than Slackware which comes with Dr Linux. However, some people may disagree... David -- David Chatterton (61-3) 9882 8211 (Tel) R&D Software Engineer (61-3) 9882 8030 (Fax) Performance Tools Group http://reality.sgi.com/chatz Silicon Graphics Pty.Ltd., 357 Camberwell Rd, Melbourne, Australia
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,e0a709c278edb5b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: David Chatterton <chatz@engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: Help find Dr. Linux in Australia Date: 1997/04/28 Message-ID: <3363F835.3F54@engr.sgi.com> X-Deja-AN: 237892630 References: <5jvisv$sls@news.planet.net.au> <5jvrdl$b8j$1@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> Organization: Silicon Graphics Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux