Book Recommendation for Fedora users?

[Joe Wulf]

The Mark Sobell books are GOOD; I've not heard any rumors regarding a RHEL7 update (sadly).A quick check/search showed me that the latest Fedora Bible is from 2011 for Fedora14.  That is definitely dated.
There is always (as you mentioned) the staple of existing Fedora Documentation.  Which, you could always peruse and even work to enhance for the benefit of the community at-large, if you were so inclined.

There 'are' differences between RHEL6 and RHEL7, yet a lot of the insights he provides are still excellent studying material.  I'd also recommend a good look through Red Hat's documentation, both for RHEL6 and RHEL7, from their web-site.  Nice as it will be to study and get certified for RHEL7--- what guarantees will you have that the system's you'll actively work on will be v7, as opposed to v6.  For the breadth of diversity, as well as providing optimal ROI to your current/future employer, being skilled on the nuances of both will likely garner greater success.
Setting up your own Fedora/Red Hat machines (VMs!) at home is an excellent opportunity to broaden your skills, too.  Demand more from yourself than anyone else can ever hope to request from you.

Your attitude of wanting to learn more and fix your own stuff is commendable... BRAVO!!I sense you'll do just fine and get past the learning curve, since you've the hunger to know more.
Recommend you always seek to achieve success, that you push yourself to learn more, that you spend some portion of your time giving back, and that the 'output' you produce, in whatever form, for whomever... is always well-crafted (i.e. based on quality) versus quickly done (aka 'quantity').  There are times, certainly, when the required 'pace' is necessarily frenetic.... but when that becomes the norm, look out.  I have been lucky to work for employers who want deadlines met, yet the focus is on achieving them with a quality product.

Wish you the very best success!


      From: James Crace <jmz at SDF.ORG>
 To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org 
 Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 5:53 PM
 Subject: Book Recommendation for Fedora users?
   
Hi,

I've been using Fedora for several months now, and really like it. I would really like to know more about the inner workings and eventually get RH certified, so I'm wondering what you 
long-time users or RH certified folks would recommend book-wise. 

I've seen Mark Sobell's book on Amazon but it's a year old and I'm worried it would already be outdated. Besides the official Fedora Documentation, how can I learn more about the inner 
workings of my system? Many times when something goes wrong I have to appeal to others for advice, and while there is nothing wrong with that, I would like to know enough about my 
system to be able to troubleshoot and diagnose just about anything. I would also like to help others, and someday contribute back to the project. Right now I feel too ignorant to 
submit bug reports or try to contribute anything.

Besides daily use and experimenting, is there anything you'd recommend to move from casual user to power-user/contributor? 

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