On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:13 AM, David G. Miller <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Red Hat Linux is ancient.
> <SNIP>
> I started with Red Hat Linux 5 in 1998. Mind your manners when calling RHL 9
> ancient or I'll come over and hit you with my walker.
In computer years, that's like a century ago.
> Advice to OP: Don't spend much money on treeware books about Linux in general or
> CentOS in particular. The technology moves fast enough that the book will be
> obsolete in six months to a year. I work best with real books because I can
> easily dog-ear, underline, highlight, mark, etc. so I understand liking a real
> book.
But real books don't have that 'search' box up at the top...
> If you really want to have a real book, take the time to visit a local book
> store that has a decent selection of technical books and page through some of
> the books there to see which author's style fits you. If you can afford it,
> spend the money and support your local book store. If you can't afford it, see
> what you can find on-line, at a garage or yard sale, etc. Either way, get used
> to using Google to get answers to your questions. The answer will change over
> time.
It is really unfortunate that neither paper books nor pdf's have
developed the technology to easily show you 'just' those changes so
you end up starting from scratch every time a developer decides to
make some small change. I've always wished for something where you
could input the version you know and get a description of the changes
between that and some current version.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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