Yggdrasil's Linux Bible

What I liked.

• Nice to have documentation on paper without spooling postscript files to a laser printer.

• A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Linux Bible are used to support the Linux Documentation Project.

• The CDROM is great!

• The CDROM comes with Slackware 2.3.0 included.

• The CDROM includes html manual pages.

• The GNU info pages are on the CDROM in html format (I knew I didn't want to bother learning how to read info pages!).

• A wais server is launched when the readbible script is run allowing you to search the entire contents of the CDROM.

• All the original users guides and howto source files are included on the CDROM.

What I disliked.

• The paper used to print the book is cheap.

• The only page headers in the book are the article page headers. Given that the entire book is a collection of various articles it is sometimes difficult to determine which book your in.

• Index appears to be surprisingly sparse (only one reference to the C-shell, when I found 30 using the wais interface on the CDROM) and there wasn't any indication of how it was constructed.

Last Modified: 12 February 1996