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Topic: The DSL book, book from spidertool.com

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AwPhuch

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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,00:31

Anyone else gotten one!?!

Brian
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Rupert

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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,12:32

AwPhuch,

I'm a little worried about buying a hard-copy book for a distrobution that updates itself every month.

Do you think the book will be out of date in 4 months?

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 09 2006,18:07

Some parts of it will.

But most of the basics should be still relevent.

It's not a bad way for a new user to get a structured learning experience for DSL.

Or else you can save your $25 and self-learn or use the forums, wiki and especially irc for guidance.

TruBlueEQ

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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,19:40

I ordered the book yesterday and was told it is already on its way.

I plan on reporting my experiences with the book in helping me get up to speed with everything DSL.

I am a complete newbie to Linux, so my review should be a good indicator of how basic the book gets. When I say complete newbie, I mean complete newbie. I've only started messing with a command line just recently. =P

I've tried knoppix, fedora core 3, 4, suse10, and FreeBSD. I want to learn to be self sufficient with Linux but I've found that either the OS is too graphical (and big for my old 600e) to let me know what's going on(suse, FC) or it's way too complicated with not enough newbie friendly literature out there(FreeBSD).

So, I'm really looking forward to trying out DSL with this book as a guide. I'll let everyone know how it goes. Perhaps there's someone else out there who has the same needs as me?

-Ernest

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Posted: Feb. 16 2006,02:00

I cannot get the book. They do not send it to Malaysia.

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