Question about "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux (8.04 and 8.10)"

[Superchiken]

I just got Ubuntu 9.10, and I am playing around with it. I plan to make it my main OS, and that will mean that I am going to have to learn how to use it better than I know how to do so at this point. I saw a book at the store the other day titled "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux," which, until I looked it up today, did not know that it covered versions 8.04 and 8.10. I looked around for a guide that I could use for the Ubuntu 9 series, but found nothing. If I bought the book for 8.04 and 8.10, will it be helpful at all to me now, or should I just wait until there is a new book for Ubuntu 9?

Thanks.

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

I used to buy books, but stopped doing that because of the expense and the fact that they are outdated 6 months after purchase.

The best way to learn to use your distribution is to make backups if you haven't already, then experiment with it heavily. If you goof up something, either learn to fix the breakage, or restore from the backup, or you can reinstall if you wish. All of those recovery methods will teach you something, although some more than others.

Hope you have fun with Linux.

[Superchiken]

Yeah, bummer about the outdatedness. I found a couple of help and learning sites for Ubuntu, so I'm going to look around on those and try and learn it a little better. I'm loving the stuff that it does, and I've only had it a day or two. It's very fast and quite convenient compared to Windows Vista was for me.

Thanks for the suggestion, I may do that, I may not. But I'm hoping to learn at least a little something from being on the Linux forums and such.

[oz]

Yes, you can get lots of information on forums like this one, and there are a lot of free ebooks out there that you can get online. A google search for free linux ebooks will reveal many of them.

[rokytnji]

This might be of help plus the Link in my Signature.

[elija]

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