Wanted : linux book
In France, we say never two without three. And despite all the speech about “Alsaceness’, I feel like having to abide to the popular saying : I’ve been trying to find a “good” book on linux without much success.
Well, for sure, this time the task is hard… My requirements are quite shallow : getting a better understanding of its inner working/commons tools/server side tools. Well, kind of. The overall idea is to become more than the casual ubuntu user I’m. Easy, clearly, but I’m looking for a good book. You know, the enlightening, empowering and easy to grasp thingy. And I muss confess I really love books worth being read more than once (and not because the first read was not enough to grasp anything).
BTW, my references on the matter might well be “Effective Java”. Or “Don’t make me think”. More on it later
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Check this out http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ (LFS & BLFS)
thanks
I’m not sure it’s the easiest book to read on a train, but at least it starts from the very first byte of linux ! The book looks quite heavy on “run this command then run this one”, is it still easily readable ?