Good Linux Books for Beginners

[Kevin Faulkner]

I really enjoy linfo.org its put on by a LUG and its full of great
simple information. I have found that Gentoo has probably one of the
best wiki (gentoo-wiki.com) around, which is one of the reasons why I
use it. Softpanorama.org has a lot of good information, probably not for
beginners though.

David Munson wrote:
> That's perfect, thank you so much.
>
> On 9/3/07, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 19:18 -0700, David Munson wrote:
>>     
>>> So it's "--help", not just "help". That explains a lot about why doing
>>> that gave such weird results.
>>>
>>> I've read a lot about problems where images burned at high speeds
>>> don't work properly, or not at all.
>>>
>>> In the vein of architectures and images, (i386 vs x86_64), I tried
>>> looking up the differences (if any) between x86 and x86_64... as far
>>> as I can tell, it supports x64 where available, but goes to x86 if
>>> not, but not all processors (esp. older procs) will support x86_64. Is
>>> this correct?
>>>
>>> Also, what are the differences between i386 and x86? This processor
>>> architecture stuff I'm finding via Google is either so simple it
>>> doesn't really help, or so complex I can't understand it.
>>>
>>> I'm still searching, but if anyone else knows, I'd appreciate the help.
>>>
>>>       
>> ----
>> according to the guide on Fedora 7...
>>
>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/sn-which-arch.html
>>
>> Processor Manufacturer and Model                         Architecture
>> -------------------------------------------------------- ------------
>> Intel (except Core 2 Duo, Centrino Core 2 Duo, or Xeon),
>> AMD (except 64 or x2 dual-core), VIA C4, Apple MacBook Pro      i386
>>
>> Intel Core 2 Duo, Centrino Core 2 Duo, and Xeon;
>> AMD Athlon64/x2, Sempron64/x2, Duron64                        x86_64
>>
>> x86_64 tends to make it more difficult to use 32 bit only binary stuff
>> like Adobe Reader (the plugin) or Flash Plugin, and the 64 bit version
>> of Sun Java apparently still doesn't have a workable applet runner and
>> what I've gone to is to use the 'nspluginviewer' which allows you to use
>> 32 bit plugins on a 64 bit browser.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>     
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