Linux: The Complete Reference

[andromat]

I have a brand-new "Linux: The Complete Reference, Forth Edition by Richard Peterson" book for sale. Comes with two sealed CDs: Red Hat Linux 7 and Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4. Listed at $39.99 -- yours half-price plus $5.00 s/h (it's a thick, over 1250 pages book):

"Take advantage of the powerful capabilities of Linux using this comprehensive and easy -to-use reference. Featuring up-to-date coverage of everything from installation and configuration to system administration and programming, this valuable reference covers all the latest distributions of Linux and the Linux 2.4 kernel. New chapters include full details on system, network, and security setup tasks, programming, as well as coverage of Internet Servers and the K office suite. The two CD-ROMs contain Red Hat Linux 7 and Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4. For anyone wanting to learn to install, administer, or program using the latest Linux platform, this is your one-stop guide."

© 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies

Please contact me at andromat@hotmail.com

Thank you

[Craig McPherson]

I have the 1997 version of L:TCR. I haven't seen the new version, but the 1997 version was effectively a collection of every Linux HOWTO stuffed into a gigantic paperback tome.

A printout of every HOWTO is nice to have, but you can read every one of them online at http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto, so buy the book if that's what you want, but keep in mind that you can download all the material in the book as a single 5MB .tar.gz file.

The 1997 version is 2000 pages. I guess Linux has gotten simpler. :)

[ 10 June 2001: Message edited by: Craig McPherson ]

[cage47]

I've got the '94 version with Debian still version 0.9 and Slack 1.something. Lots of neet little utils on there and how-to's

[Craig McPherson]

Whoa, cool, how many pages is it?

1997 -> 2001 it shrunk by 750 pages. I'm wondering if it started out big and has been constantly shrinking, or if it started out small then spiked then shrunk again...

[cage47]

Oh, it's not a book, it's a 4 cd set. If it came with a book I don't have it. I got it second-hand.

[Craig McPherson]

You're right. My 1997 book came with a 4 (6?) CD set also. I think you could get the book without the CDs, but you could only get the CDs with the book. Somebody probably decided to pawn the CDs and keep the book -- that's what I did with mine. :)