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Degunk Linux and debunk FUD

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Mad Penguin; By Christian Einfeldt
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I met the most amazing San Francisco Muni Bus driver the other day. Let's call him Ralph Kramden. (Not his real name). I took the bus to work. Ralph was the driver. He and I chatted. Ralph wants to partition his Windows XP hard drive, but XP won't let him. I suggested Linux. Did Ralph freak out? Did he veer the bus into on-coming traffic? No, Ralph never flinched. He wants to give it a try.

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I bought that "degunking Linux" book a couple of weeks ago and for being a book that is aimed at the intermediate administrator, I actually understood most of it.

When I get the chance, I look at all the Linux books I can find and most of them are way...WAY over my head or too basic for me. But this one is not either of those. I have not been able to read the whole thing front to back but what I have read I can understand, and what I cannot understand I know I can learn.

I have already used some of what I have learned to trim and consolidate files on my computer.

It seems that I am in-between skill levels, I am not new enough to need a newbie how-to, but not skilled enough to understand programming conventions.

This book gives some basic info but also a lot of not-so-basic information as well, but at least I can get past the first page or two. :-)

The writers style is good and he does not talk down to the reader. To me that is very important, I know that I do not know a lot, I don't need the writer to remind me of it on very page. :-)

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