Fedora books?

[Emilio Simpkins]

As I get people asking me about Fedora, I find I don't know much on the
subject (yeah I know ambassador who doesn't know his distro), so I was
wondering if anyone knows any books out there that could help me learn more
about Fedora and Linux in general...(please don't say Linux for dummies...)

Thanks,
Emilio

[Xia Shing Zee]

You can probably use Fedora 9 by the Bible group or you can use this Wiki
page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Books

I can really vouch for the O'Rielly books, they're really good.

Regards,
Xia Shing

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Emilio Simpkins
wrote:
> As I get people asking me about Fedora, I find I don't know much on the
> subject (yeah I know ambassador who doesn't know his distro), so I was
> wondering if anyone knows any books out there that could help me learn more
> about Fedora and Linux in general...(please don't say Linux for dummies...)
>
> Thanks,
> Emilio
>
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[sankarshan]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Emilio
Simpkins wrote:
> As I get people asking me about Fedora, I find I don't know much on the
> subject (yeah I know ambassador who doesn't know his distro), so I was
> wondering if anyone knows any books out there that could help me learn more
> about Fedora and Linux in general...(please don't say Linux for dummies...)

A great way to start would be noting down the questions you get asked
into a wiki page and, then searching the wiki and, various other
Fedora documentation to check if you obtain appropriate responses. The
upside - you will help create a nice FAQ/primer for Ambassadors.
Besides the wiki, there are excellent documentation at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

[shaun mallette]

sankarshan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Emilio
> Simpkins wrote:
> > As I get people asking me about Fedora, I find I don't know much on the
> > subject (yeah I know ambassador who doesn't know his distro), so I was
> > wondering if anyone knows any books out there that could help me learn more
> > about Fedora and Linux in general...(please don't say Linux for dummies...)
>
> A great way to start would be noting down the questions you get asked
> into a wiki page and, then searching the wiki and, various other
> Fedora documentation to check if you obtain appropriate responses. The
> upside - you will help create a nice FAQ/primer for Ambassadors.
> Besides the wiki, there are excellent documentation at
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

That is a good idea

[A. Mani]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:51 AM, sankarshan wrote:
> A great way to start would be noting down the questions you get asked
> into a wiki page and, then searching the wiki and, various other
> Fedora documentation to check if you obtain appropriate responses. The
> upside - you will help create a nice FAQ/primer for Ambassadors.
> Besides the wiki, there are excellent documentation at
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

It will help if an arbitrary selection of wiki pages can be converted
into booklet form in pdf/djvu format. They do this well in the open
office site

Best

A. Mani

[sankarshan]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Mani A wrote:
> It will help if an arbitrary selection of wiki pages can be converted
> into booklet form in pdf/djvu format. They do this well in the open
> office site

Somewhat tangential, but you might want to look at Rhaptos
(rhaptos.org) At this point I am unaware if Mediawiki -> XML ->
Publican -> PDF is a possible path

[David Nalley]

Sorry for top posting haven't figured out how to make my G1 bottom post.

Hang out in #fedora and read fedora forums. That will show you the most
relevant content for a given release because people tend to have the same
problems.

For general linux knowledge go to IBM developerworks and run through their
LPI certification tutorials.

On Jun 29, 2009 7:40 PM, "Emilio Simpkins" 
wrote:

As I get people asking me about Fedora, I find I don't know much on the
subject (yeah I know ambassador who doesn't know his distro), so I was
wondering if anyone knows any books out there that could help me learn more
about Fedora and Linux in general...(please don't say Linux for dummies...)

Thanks,
Emilio

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[Adam Miller]

http://www.amazon.com/Fedora-Linux-Toolbox-Commands-CentOS/dp/0470082917

I really like this one, not sure if it would be a solid "Intro book"
but I think its a good one to have in your arsenal.

-Adam

[Tristan Santore]

Adam Miller wrote:
> http://www.amazon.com/Fedora-Linux-Toolbox-Commands-CentOS/dp/0470082917
>
> I really like this one, not sure if it would be a solid "Intro book"
> but I think its a good one to have in your arsenal.
>
> -Adam

Apologies, went into the wrong thread earlier!!!

The above site has some Fedora books, and thanks to Richard, there is a 
free electronic version available,
of the Security and Admin edition.

Regards,
Tristan

[Adam Miller]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Tristan
Santore wrote:
> Apologies, went into the wrong thread earlier!!!
>
> The above site has some Fedora books, and thanks to Richard, there is a free
> electronic version available,
> of the Security and Admin edition.
>
> Regards,
> Tristan
>
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I might be blind but it doesn't look like the link is included in this post.

-Adam

[Tristan Santore]

Tristan Santore wrote:
> Adam Miller wrote:
> > http://www.amazon.com/Fedora-Linux-Toolbox-Commands-CentOS/dp/0470082917
> >
> > I really like this one, not sure if it would be a solid "Intro book"
> > but I think its a good one to have in your arsenal.
> >
> > -Adam
>
> Apologies, went into the wrong thread earlier!!!
>
> The above site has some Fedora books, and thanks to Richard, there is 
> a free electronic version available,
> of the Security and Admin edition.
>
> Regards,
> Tristan

http://surfingturtlepress.com/
apologies again, pasted and it didnt paste the link with the text. Meh!

[Emilio Simpkins]

Thanks, this was exactly what I was looking for. Most of the questions I get
are on security...Like what makes Linux safer than windows or how to encrypt
in Linux.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Tristan Santore <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Tristan Santore wrote:
> > Adam Miller wrote:
> > > http://www.amazon.com/Fedora-Linux-Toolbox-Commands-CentOS/dp/0470082917
> > >
> > > I really like this one, not sure if it would be a solid "Intro book"
> > > but I think its a good one to have in your arsenal.
> > >
> > > -Adam
> >
> > Apologies, went into the wrong thread earlier!!!
> >
> > The above site has some Fedora books, and thanks to Richard, there is a
> > free electronic version available,
> > of the Security and Admin edition.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tristan
> >
> > http://surfingturtlepress.com/
>
> apologies again, pasted and it didnt paste the link with the text. Meh!
>
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> TS4523-RIPE
> Network and Infrastructure Operations
> InterNexusConnect
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> [e-mail]
>
> Thawte Notary
>
> For Fedora related issues email:
> [e-mail]
>
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