From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 2948 invoked from network); 8 Dec 1996 01:48:01 -0000 Received: from vanzandt.mv.com (jrv@207.22.8.81) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 1996 01:48:00 -0000 Received: from vanzandt.mv.com (jrv@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vanzandt.mv.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA00450 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 20:37:38 -0500 Message-Id: <199612080137.UAA00450@vanzandt.mv.com> To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: linux price In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 1996 14:23:39 +0200." <1.5.4.32.19961002122339.0066561c@netvision.net.il> Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 20:37:38 -0500 From: Jim Van Zandt List-Id: avi shaby writes: "what is the price of linux operating system in the us, after taxes and commission ? do i need extra litrature to start working with it ? is there a knowledge needed in operating linux ? do i need to purchace more books or is all the info i need included in the linux package? i know dos and windows 95." Linux will cost you only a little money, but quite a bit of time. You can learn how to use and administer the system from the manual pages and other documentation. Typically, you will investigate programs as the need arises. You should expect to still be learning things two years from now. I got the "Developer's Resource" set of six cdroms from InfoMagic for $25 plus postage. The only printed documentation is a small pamphlet, but there is a good collection of computer-readable documentation on the discs. InfoMagic releases a new version about three times a year. My own copy of the most recent set (September 1996) is loaned out, so I cannot refer to it at the moment. However, here are the general files on the November 1995 version, which should be similar: There are general guides to the disks in the set in \readme.1st and \help\whereami.txt. Matt Welsh's step by step guide to installing Slackware is in \help\quicksta.txt. (This is slightly dated. For example, you no longer need to decompress the root disks before writing them out. However, it is still a "must-read".) More general information is in the Linux "Frequently Asked Questions" list in \slackwar\docs\linux.faq\linux-fa.asc. Longer descriptions are in "HOWTO" documents found in \howto. Note particularly \howto\hardware, which lists which kinds of hardware are supported by Linux, \howto\meta-faq, which points to sources of information (that is, a more extensive version of this paragraph), and \help\index, which is a list of the HOWTO documents with short descriptions. The Linux installation HOWTO, \howto\installation, is another version of Matt Welsh's installation instructions. InfoMagic is at 11950 N. Highway 89, Flagstaff AZ 86004, telephone: 800-800-6613 or 520-526-9565, fax 520-526-9573, email: info@infomagic.com, web: . - Jim Van Zandt