Souljacker wrote: » Do you happen to have a link to Roderick Smith's "new" book? I have been looking for materials as well and almost everything I have found is from 4-10 years ago - nothing that I would consider recent enough to really cover what's on the LPIC tests. I'm using a handful of books that I have found such as the one everyone complains about from the Mike Meyers series, and an older book by Smith, but it's all mostly dry and seems a little dated. Also to the OP - what videos are you referring to? I haven't been able to find ANY video training for linux at all. Would appreciate links Thanks!
Souljacker wrote: » I find that the linux courseware is incredibly dry - I don't understand the love affair with the command line and the alphabet soup that most linux folks seem to just have a knack for, so I was hoping someone had some links to stuff that is truly meant for those of us who have more of a learning curve.
Souljacker wrote: » It's easy to say "go read a man page" - it's a little more complex to be able to look at it and really understand what is being presented, and that's the point I am at with the Linux method of doing things.
Souljacker wrote: » I find that the linux courseware is incredibly dry - I don't understand the love affair with the command line and the alphabet soup that most linux folks seem to just have a knack for, so I was hoping someone had some links to stuff that is truly meant for those of us who have more of a learning curve. I understand why he might be looking for videos and someone to actually explain what's going on. It's easy to say "go read a man page" - it's a little more complex to be able to look at it and really understand what is being presented, and that's the point I am at with the Linux method of doing things. Thanks for the suggestions - I will check out the Reilly book and see if that's any better than this Smith book I have (looks like a Sybex).
ally_uk wrote: » I received my copy of Roderick Smiths new book, Starting reading it the other day initial thoughts? wow this book is awful read the first chapter and your see what I mean there is no explanation of why commands are used and no real introduction it just dives straight into regular expressions, environment variables and all sorts of jargon I am finding it to be a very dry read at the moment, there has to be a better resource then this. This book is actually putting me off lol