Recommendation for a Unix book

Fitz · Post by **Fitz** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 6:35 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:IS the O'Reilly "Unix in a Nutshell" book a good one?

Exactly what you are looking for, reference material.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 7:47 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:IS the O'Reilly "Unix in a Nutshell" book a good one?

Yeah.

O'Reilly books about Unix are almost always good.

Bruce

Fitz · Post by **Fitz** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 6:44 pm

You have the choice of both Unix or Linux in a Nutshell, I mention this simply because you mention running Unix on a desktop and assumed you were running a Linux distribution.

bruce wrote:O'Reilly books about Unix are almost always good.

Name one that isn’t good.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 7:05 pm

Fitz wrote:
bruce wrote:O'Reilly books about Unix are almost always good.
Name one that isn’t good.

Dunno, this one was kinda lack-luster:

But yeah, I went and ordered the Unix in a Nutshell one. Thanks, guys!

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Fri Jan 17, 2003 7:13 pm

Fitz wrote:You have the choice of both Unix or Linux in a Nutshell, I mention this simply because you mention running Unix on a desktop and assumed you were running a Linux distribution.

bruce wrote:O'Reilly books about Unix are almost always good.
Name one that isn’t good.

If you'll allow "Linux" as "Unix," the LPI Certification book was pretty weak. Several outright errors, and lots of clumsiness.

I didn't get a lot out of <i>Programming with curses</i> either, but to be fair, it is 17 years old, was 8 years old when I bought it, and is only 76 pages.

Bruce