Blackmoor Vituperative

I was browsing Amazon earlier, looking for books to recommend to a friend who may be interested in getting into Linux. I thought other people might find this handy, too, so here they are. It is a very short list. There are literally dozens of other books on specific subjects that I would also recommend (the O’Reilly Apache book, a few Perl books, and so on), but this is a start. These are more or less in order of increasing complexity.

• Learning the UNIX Operating System
• Unix in a Nutshell
• Learning the vi Editor
• Essential System Administration
• UNIX System Administration Handbook