[PLUG] Carla Schroder's new book is GREAT

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Just received a copy of the new "Linux Cookbook" by PLUG's Carla Schroder. 
> About 350 little recipes for doing misc useful things on a Linux system. 
> Okay, so I already know some of them, lots of recipes I don't know.  Setup
> oriented rather than debug oriented.
> $45 list, the cheapest online retailer is ... Walmart(?!) for $29.78
> incl. ground shipping.

Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:
>    Taking nothing away from Carla's well-deserved rush of pride (mine's still
> a few months away), there's another "Linux Cookbook" out there. Written by
> Michael Stutz and published by No-Starch Press, it also pops up in a google
> search for the title. Gotta' be more selective in search terms.

And both are published by O'Reilly (No-Starch is owned by O'Reilly).  
Perhaps this is the start of a trend - next year, O'Reilly may have dozens
of Linux Cookbooks, the year after that, thousands.  To help all these
Linux Cookbook authors, I propose writing the "Linux Cookbook Cookbook".
Of course, I will focus on using GNU/Linux tools to write these books,
so that will make it the "GNU/Linux Linux Cookbook Cookbook".  Urk...  :-)

One of the better places to look for books, BTW, is www.addall.com .  This
is a meta-search-engine for purchasing books online, with approximate
prices including shipping.  

Keith

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