[TriLUG] OT: Linux/UNIX book recommendations needed

[burnett at pobox.com]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Greg Brown wrote:

> A good friend of mine landed a job down in CLT and he has to learn 
> about system administration of all things command line.  Not only does 
> he need to know administration he needs to learn about the general 
> workings and operations of:
> 
> UNIX (AIX, Solaris, and maybe HP-UX)
> Linux (not sure which distro, probably RH)
> BSD (unsure of which distro, probably FreeBSD)

> what books do you recommend?

I find the UNIX Unleashed book by Ray & Ray from Sams Publishing to be 
pretty good: detailed, comprehensive, lots of example and minimal waste 
of my time and dead trees. O'Reilly books are almost always good quality, 
but I figured everyone else will mention O'Reilly, as you already did. 

best,
Steve Burnett
badger at trilug