AlterSlash.org - Collection of thread publications based in Sydney, Australia
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AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest
Description
Taran Rampersad writes “Every now and then, someone comes up with a fun title. ‘Linux Annoyances for Geeks’ is a definitely fun - and accurate - title for this book. While some people have been fiddling with Linux since it first came out, the majority of Linux users haven’t been. I started using Linux in the late 90s, and my work schedule didn’t allow me to go to meetings, or track down people who knew things. And the first time you do an install on a machine, you may be disconnected from the very information that gets you connected. Been there, done that. So this book attracted me because despite being an advocate of Free Software and Open Source, there are times when I still type very naughty things on the command line. Read the rest of Taran’s review.
Most of the time, I had fiddled with a previous install and gotten it the way I wanted it to work — when I had to do it again with a different install, I’d forgotten how I did it in the first place. There have been times, honestly, where I didn’t even know. Fortunately, life has become better. There are books now. Some even come with Linux distributions, and there’s plenty of documentation online that you can print out in advance when you go install things on your only connection to the Internet.
But there aren’t that many books that really deal with the things that are annoyances, because the annoyances usually come from the late phone calls or the unanswered emails on a list. That’s what this book is supposed to be for.
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