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  From: SBS expt <ara@newave.net.au>
  To  : Michael Pearson" <alcaron@ozemail.com.au>, "Malcolm Chisholm <alcaron@ozemail.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:55:47 +1030

Re: Book recomm'n - 2 ways to buy RedHat inst'n book, et al.

> From: Michael Pearson <alcaron@ozemail.com.au>
> To: Malcolm Chisholm <chisholm@southport.mernet.org.uk>
> Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: Re: Book recommendation..
> Date: Friday, 20 November 1998 3:04
> 
> > As I'm a newbie to Linux, what book would you recommend me to get which
> > would take me gently through Linux installation and setting up a small
> > network?
> > 
> > Is there a preferred distribution to use?
 
> RedHat is definetely your best choice if you're a newbie, and the
> documents that come with the RH boxed set should get you on the right
> track.

I just want to remind people - since we're (elsewhere)
so interested in saving $'s on books - that:

  There are two ways to buy RedHat's Installation Guide:

  - as part of the RedHat LINUX 5.2 boxed-set
    (Au$59 - Au$69 from Geoffrey, more in bookshops)

  - by itself (Au$ 25 from Geoffrey)

As to the RH distribution itself, didn't I see it for US$ 1.95
from Cheap Bytes (their version of 5.2 - no source?) for the
entry-level just learning... with no great need to modify (yet)

Locally (meaning in .au), I think LSL wants about Au$ 9 for
their low-end distribution (again, no source), but they have
at last one Combination Pack with *several* distributions
RedHat, Slackware & one from Germany, I think...

(LSL = LINUX System Lab's)

This would be the fairest way to compare LINUX versions...
you could install each for a week or month - in turn - and
next time try the next one...

Of course, just as there is a tendency to follow the local
crowd:

 - if in gov't IT, down the gold-brick Microsoft road -or-
 - if in LINUX SA, down the yellow-brick RedHat LINUX road,

I suppose you're at some risk of being persuaded by this
list's frequency-of-mention of "RedHat" i.e. unless you
do get such a "tripple-header" disk - for under Au$ 10

Do you follow "Fashion" -or- "Science"?  ;)

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