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    Got my books and my CDs I am ready for Linux 7 (lemmy.ml)
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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    That's how I started using Linux

    big book with CD, I think it was "RedHat Linux Secrets 5.4" or something. 2.0 or 2.2 kernel.

    Honestly, it was fantastic. And almost all of it is still relevant today. (Some of the stuff on xfree86 and the chap/pap stuff not so much.)

    But it gave a really solid (IMHO) intro to a Linux/*NIX system, a solid overview of coreutils, etc. And while LILO has been long replaced, and afaik /sys didn't exist at the time, it formed a good foundation.

    I'll refrain from commenting on any init system changes that have taken place since then.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

    The RHEL 7 book from OP is most certainly still relevant. For example, my department at work has not managed to switch over to the brand new RHEL 8 machines just yet.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I started with a book too. But it was 1996, and the distro was Yggdrasil, and the book was a printout of all the man pages. I used it for a Prolog programming course, so that I didn't have to go to the university and use their computers. Of course, then I discovered the joys of different flavors of Prolog.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

    Conectiva for me. More than a mere printout of man pages though, it was actually translated documentation into Portuguese and a really useful intro book.