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wew@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (William Webber) wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'm about to buy a Linux CD + book and set it up on my system, and I'd 
>appreciate it if some more experienced users would pass their eyes over 
>what I'm about to do and let me know if I'm going to run into any major 
>problems.
>

The two books I looked at are 
"Special edition. Using Linux" QUE,  861pages. with CDROM

and 
"Running Linux" O'reilly and Associates. Matt Walsh and Lar Kaufman.
575 pages. without CDROM.

I read somewhere that the Running Linux is the most recommended.
I think it is the better of the two.

Incidently, I now feel a Linux book with a CDROM is a bit of a waste, as
it rapidly gets outdated.

CDROMs I liked. (these are my views)

"InfoMagic Developer's Resource." (the last one I had was March, 95.)
(the newsgroup indicates there is a new one.)

"Toolkit for Linux". Walnut Creek.   I thought the InfoMagic at the same 
date was better.

I remember a mate said he used "Plug and Play" seemed to better for 
novices.



Did not like "Linux Internet Archives" - Yggdrasil. 
It seemed to expect  you to have multiple cd drives, so I found it a bit 
all over the place, with some links missing.

For whats it's worth.
Ed Fletcher.