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 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 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 > >> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss