Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

[Alan Dayley]

I don't understand the negativity around dead tree media.  It has many
advantages, including ultimate portability and no dead batteries.  I
currently have multiple O'Reilly books above my computer here, all of
which I have actually used, some more than others.  My Linux Pocket
Guide is an excellent reference.  There's just something about having
three fingers between different sections of a book and flipping
between them while learning!

O'Reilly, as a company, has provided excellent support for
Linux/FS/OSS with books and conferences and direct support for PLUG.
Sure, it made good business sense for them to do it or they probably
wouldn't but, that's OK because we both win.  O'Reilly is supporting
new avenues of knowledge spreading with efforts like Ignite events
(http://www.ignitephoenix.com)

While I believe printed books will be come less and less important, I
hope they don't go away completely.  And I have learned something from
every O'Reilly book I own.  That they have a book named "favorite
Linux book of all time" is another bonus to them.

Alan

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure why I am bothering with this but I do happen to own many
> dead tree edition computer books including many O'Reilly books but truth
> be told, they are decorating my office by residing on shelves instead of
> my desk so I think your characterization is slightly too narrow.
>
> It's also hard to ignore that O'Reilly actually has contributed stuff to
> PLUG and has solicited the list for reviewers which makes me think that
> the commentaries are overly harsh.
>
> Lastly, it is obvious that both Lisa and Joshua don't seem to care that
> Gerald expressed a personal pride connection with this particular book
> and I would like to ask Gerald what his connection was to "Linux in a
> Nutshell?"
>
> Craig
>
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 18:39 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>> agreed.  O'reilly = lame.  The price of those books is hardly worth
>> the information in them.  They're mainly used for decorating the desks
>> of poser developers.
>>
>>   -jmz
>>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>> > Snore!
>> >
>> > Bored with the under publishing of technical books, and over blown accolades
>> > for the few available....
>> >
>> > O'Really now!
>> > I own that book BTW (and the Unix in A Nutshell it was patterned afer was
>> > well used too) but I find the actual sources of each distribution more
>> > useful (man, cat /proc/cpuinfo, ls, find) than that book, which is far from
>> > current or distro specific.
>> >
>> > big yawn with dreamy bleary eyes
>> >
>> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Gerald Thurman <nanofoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Tim O'Reilly just tweeted this...
>> >>
>> >> Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards: Linux in a Nutshell favorite Linux
>> >> book of all time. I'm honored. http://bit.ly/hhTBH
>> >>
>
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