I just finished reading J. Bruce Dawson's short review of Fintronic's distribution of Linux (``Power of Cooperation,'' September). While his review is quite accurate and fair, he failed to mention that there is excellent support for Linux from a number of sources: The best and most up-to-date documentation is at an FTP site: sunsite.unc.edu, in the /pub/Linux/docs/LDP directory. There you will find a number of Linux manuals developed and maintained by the Linux Documentation Project group. For information on the different Linux distributions, the DOS emulator, and networking, look in the /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO directory of the sunsite.unc.edu ftp site. Also, Linux System Labs and Yggdrasil Computing publish a book called The Linux Bible, The Gnu Testament. I highly recommend it!
Besides internet newsgroups and Fido echoes that discuss Linux issues, Specialized Systems Consultants publishes monthly an excellent magazine called the Linux Journal.
Nick Busigin
74075.1501@compuserve.com
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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