Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:09:39 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: blurb :) |
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Leon Breedt wrote:
> I have been using linux for the past year and a half, partly because I > couldn't afford buying an OS at the time, - highschool student budget - > but I've been truly converted. Linux kicks the hell out of any commercial
Good to have another convert...
> alternative, when it comes to stability and power...Not to mention the > fact that bugs and fixes are very quickly available and don't come in > 18MB+ "Service Packs" :).
What, you mean you _paid_ for service pack '98?
> kernel hackers have :). What would be nice is if there were people > willing to donate books on C to us broke people...*hint hint* <g>
I bought some old C books once. One for $3 and one for $5. The cheap one was for PC C, but the other one actually mentioned POSIX :) It worked great and now I'm one of the core VM guys...
It doesn't have to be that expensive to get a nice C book, just get a cheap one and pick yourself some piece of kernel or userland code to use instead of book-provided example code. Learning on something new is more fun as well :)
succes,
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