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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (1581)	6/10/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: Dave Wulkan	Respond to of 2617

Andy, I've found that you really need more than one book. What's not covered all that well in one book is usually covered just a little better in the other book. I use a Que book on Using LINUX and a Sam's book I thinks it's called LINUX Unleashed. But the one that's given me the most satisfaction is the LINUX Networking Toolkit. That one goes through setting up SAMBA so you can drag and drop in Windows Explorer to/from your LINUX box. It also guides you through routing and IP set up. I think the troubleshooting part could be improved a lot but on the whole I have to say it's sufficient. I can open (on the Windoze machine) as many telnet sessions to the LINUX box as I want. And believe me, it's valuable to have multiple sessions in the LINUX world! Hope this helps? Dave Wulkan

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (1581)	6/12/1999 5:44:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

Open Source Grows Up Wired Online Look out, Redmond -- the open source movement isn't running short on talent or momentum; it's merely going commercial. At an annual advanced-computing summit this week in Monterey, California, academics, hackers, geeks, and network administrators shared their growing ardor for collaborative coding, Apple, and basically anything not Microsoft. Attendees of the Usenix conference in the heart of John Steinbeck country said there is no dearth of programmers who support open source coding, only geographic constraints. Brian Behlendorf, who was a lead developer of the Apache Web server, said that while Silicon Valley may be running thin on code jockeys, there is ample talent elsewhere. "The amount of code coming out of Japan and Italy is incredible. It's a hotbed of open source development, [and] I've no idea why." wired.com Greetings Andy. I've always liked O'Reilly books such as Linux in a Nutshell. If you use a search engine like BottomDollar.com you will save money over the O'Reilly site. www7.bottomdollar.com oreilly.com Sam's Teach Yourself Linux in 25 Hours or 10 Minutes have taught me a thing or two. The truth is I don't even know enough to be dangerous. I just want an OS that doesn't crash. Best of luck.