Best Book For Beginner?

Hello,

I have recently purchased and installed SLED 10 SP1 and am a beginner to Linux. I know some VERY basic UNIX from back in college and a tiny bit from OS X, but would love to learn a whole lot more.

Can you recommend a book that is well-suited for this purpose? Just about all of what I can find on Amazon applies to openSUSE and is about 18 months old... would that still be applicable for the distribution I have chosen to use?

Thanks in advance,
Lewis

I recommend O'Reilly's (actually I recommend anything from O-Reilly) SUSE Linux by Chris Brown. It applies both to opensuse and SLES/D. Very easy reading (my non-linux sibling read it just for the fun of it) but very concise. Great read. I pick it up every now and again and always learn something I didn't know before.

I recommend O'Reilly's (actually I recommend anything from O-Reilly) SUSE Linux by Chris Brown. It applies both to opensuse and SLES/D. Very easy reading (my non-linux sibling read it just for the fun of it) but very concise. Great read. I pick it up every now and again and always learn something I didn't know before.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond!

No problem. By the way, suse has been pretty stable since 10.x (the book I mentioned concerns 10.1) so don't worry too much about the age. Post 9.3 (I think) should be fine. The gui in opensuse has changed some, though maybe it hasn't in SLES. Most of the new stuff in the later versions are things that you expect (easier repository ia my favorite).