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**beta** · 12-19-2007, 04:29 PM

Hi all. Just before i start this aint no ad, honest! The only thing i have to back up my sincerity is that you look at my post count and the date when i joined, im not in the habit of just posting bull****. Well, thats not strictly true, but in this case it is.

Anyways i was browsing ubuntu site and looking for some good Unix resources when i found this book which is without a doubt one of the most comprehensive guides to not only Unix system and commands but network principles, security, hardware, even number systems such as decimal and hex. Theres so much in there that a webmaster/developer/admin would benefit from.

Quite honestly unless you already have a degree in computer science then go there and have a look around, i guarantee that you will learn at least a couple of new tricks.

Well. Thats it. Needless to say i am reasonably impressed

**joder** · 12-19-2007, 05:42 PM

That was a good book 5 years ago. (The date is 2001). I used it then and it was a very good book. But some things have changed and part of it is behind the times. The Guides and HOWTO's on http://www.tldp.org/ are excellent and up to date.

**beta** · 12-19-2007, 06:01 PM

Nah, im not convinced

. There is something about a well written, unfragmented book that means it doesn't need to be updated nightly. Part of the problem with learning anything on the net is trying to piece together various topics written by lots of different people at different times.

And most of this stuff isn't so outdated anyway, and even if it is then its sometimes better so see how we got to where we are now so we can make a better judgment for ourselves on if it really is heading along the right path. We are talking about a lot of mature software here, not the manual to google calendar.