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Re: [LUG] Helping newbies

 

On 15 Feb 2008, at 09:23, David Bell wrote:

> On Friday 15 February 2008 09:03, Clare Shepherd wrote:
>
>> Since I find myself in the newbie position, what do folk suggest as
>> an introductory magazine. I've used MS, from way back, and several
>> flavours of Mac, from 7.1 to OS X. The LUG is great, but I'm  
>> greedy. LOL
>
> I wouldn't recommend magazines as a source of learning for the tyro  
> and IMHO
> they are expensive for what you get.  There are plenty of books on the
> subject available at decent booksellers for about the price of 2 or  
> 3 Linux
> magazines, depending on what you want.
>
> I found the, "Linux in 24 Hours" series quite good but I don't know  
> if a
> Debian based one has been published.


Thanks for the suggestion, David. there's been a decent series of  
articles in MicroMart, but it's only one page per issue. Thanks again.

Clare

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