I got Ubuntu 7.10 and installed it on my old HP laptop (Pavilion ze1115). I'm now looking for a good desk reference that I can thumb through when I'm putzing about with Ubuntu. Any recomendations? I spent about half an hour at Barnes and Noble looking through some fo the UBuntu books, but just really couldn't decide which would help me the most. What I don't want to do is end up logging on to the Internet (yes, I'm still back in the dinosaur days of dial-up) and reading about it in the ubuntu forums for a while and then having to come back to the laptop for experimentation.
Looking for a good reference
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I can loan you a book...
Hi, I'll be attending tomorrow however I'll be 30 - 45 minutes late. I'll bring the Ubuntu Hacks book and you can borrow it until next meeting. It's a little out dated because of the new releases in Ubuntu but still a good book. I think it was for 6.10...
Paul
A techy reference
I bought the book Hacking Ubuntu as it gets under the covers to some degree.
One approach I take to finding a competent reference is to come up with a question that needs an answer and then go to the bookstore and see if I can find a book with the answer to the that question in it. Most books don't go deep enough to answer even the minor questions.
Clint