Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

[Craig White]

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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