| First, check out any printed manuals for your Linux distribution. Red Hat and SuSE's manuals, for example, are very good. These are my choices for an essential Linux library: Linux in a Nutshell, by Ellen Siever Running Linux, by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Terry Dawson, Lar Kaufman Mastering Regular Expressions, by By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl Building Secure Servers with Linux, by Mick Bauer Linux Server Hacks, by Rob Flickenger Essential System Administration, by Æleen Frisch Linux Security Cookbook, by Daniel J. Barrett, Richard Silverman, Learning the bash Shell, Second Edition, by Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt Linux Network Administrator's Guide, by Olaf Kirch, Terry Dawson TCP/IP Network Administration, by Craig Hunt PC Hardware in a Nutshell, by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
A.2.1 Magazines: Linux Journal Linux Magazine SysAdmin Magazine Unix Review
You'll notice there are no distribution-specific publications, and nothing for dummies or idiots. Just good, well-written, thorough Linux materials. |
