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Re:Forget gamesI guess I'm just a noob, but I never knew that Linux doesn't require defrag tools.
Curious as I am, I found this: Linux file system defrag
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Sounds familiar!
I haven't read this book, however, the concept sounds very similar to Marcel Gagne's book Move to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye. I wonder if Mr. Grant read this book before he "decided to write up a set of instructions on his own"?
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Re:Microsoft tantrumsThis IS the market deciding. It's deciding there's no reason to pay hundreds for each and every copy of commonly available software (like word processors) anymore. As for govt. funding, well guess who MS's #1 customer is... the US military now add to that all the money they get from federal and local govt at all levels and your tax dollars are by MS's biggest source of income.
The $40e9 MS has in the bank, and all the cash they lose in their unprofitable divisions (which is almost all of them except Office and Windows) is all waste from the market's perspective. A truly free and fair open market does not tolerate 85% profit margins for long.
Sure, what MS does makes sense from the perspective of MS. So what? "Your honor, my defense for robbing the bank is that I thought it was the easiest way to get rich." Murdering BeOS and Netscape (and a host of others) certainly was in the best interest of MS, but it wasn't legal, nor was it consistent with a company that pays lip service to competing on innovation. Sure, it would be naiive of us not to expect them to say whatever benefits them, but it would be outright stupid to take their words at face value.
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another goodie
another good admin book is by Marcel Gagne...it covers the spectrum of Administration from a very interesting perspective, and it isnt a dry boring read. it was a pleasant surprise....
Marcel's book
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Re:A Book just doesn't cut it
I find your last statement to be laughable at the least. To say that "Windows just works" is just ridiculous. If Windows would just work, I wouldn't have a job. I have installed Linux numerous times and had a working system after a single reboot, at which time it might well run for days, months, years, forever or longer without problems. Don't try that with your Windows box.
I do however agree that there isn't a single book that will educate someone on Linux. It's just too broad of a subject matter. With that said, I have found a couple of books to be very useful, Linux System Administration by Marcel Gagne is a good book about setting up your machine to do what you want. It's kinda short on shell scripting, but that's not for beginners anyway. There are some good sections about finding and installing new software, which can be somewhat daunting for a new user. Overall, it's a good place for a new user to learn about some of the nuances of *nix, and the book doesn't focus on one distribution. Secondly, I have found the Unleashed series of books to be very helpful for reference material. I wouldn't want to pick one up to read cover to cover, but I like having one around to look up stuff occassionally. These probably aren't for beginners, but maybe for intermediate users
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Nice set of intro articles written on this
Marcel Gagne has written a nice series of intro articles on this topic for The Linux Journal. You can find the articles, called Tweaking Tux at LJ under the System Administration section in the archives section, or listed on his personal page of his company's website.
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Nice set of intro articles written on this
Marcel Gagne has written a nice series of intro articles on this topic for The Linux Journal. You can find the articles, called Tweaking Tux at LJ under the System Administration section in the archives section, or listed on his personal page of his company's website.