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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:07:02 +0100 Paul Sutton wrote: > > It has been addressed, there are plenty of books available covering > > Linux as there are for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. > > There isn't a free manual for Windows 7 as such, just online help. > > > > Rob > > > > > I know there are lots of books out there, i am thinking of books for > specific distros, such as kubuntu 9.04 and ubuntu 9.04 are the > written books in sync with releases. > > Paul I can see merit in the idea, but I don't think it really has legs. Windows and Mac have a tendency to have fairly long release schedules - OSX 10.5 came out almost exactly 30 months after 10.4. Ubuntu seem to have an almost religious dedication to the 6 month release cycle. Fair enough, the majority of the features won't have changed between the two versions - but you have to already be using it to know that. If you are just browsing the books and there's several books on each of Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 all alongside each other - that's a lot to choose from. So it's free... let's go for the latest version then. But that's only around for 6 months until it's no longer the latest version. Not a good thing for book publishers either. Maybe a series of books where the "Ubuntu Basics" covers a specific version (8.04 is the LTS version, so IMO that's probably the best one to opt for at the moment) and clearly states that things are very likely to be the similar if not the same in more recent versions. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html