Re: [kde-linux] recommended books?

[Beso <givemesugarr@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/5/15 david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

sf2rio wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good book for background
> understanding of KDE?

Sorry, cannot. Haven't referred to a book about KDE ever, and only once
referred to a book about Linux (the user manual of the first Linux
distribution I used).

well, i've found google, the various wikis and the forums to be much more instructive than any book. at least for 80-90% of the stuff one needs. also books tend to put inside a lot of stuff that is more or less useless so that to put more pages and to have the cost levitated.
some examples are:

http://wiki.kde.org/

http://www.kde-forum.org/

> I've looked at Amazon.com and
> have seen "KDE for Linux for Dummies"

The Dummy series have always been good.

> and also something called "KDE Bible."

Might be overkill.

in my opinion it's useless unless you don't want to become a system administrator of kde based systems.

 

> I'm a newbie to Linux and KDE and I'm a pretty basic
> home user; email, internet research, basic word
> processing.
>
> I've had my new system for a couple of months and I
> understand how to operate everything that was
> pre-installed on the notebook when I bought it.
>
> My problem is that I don't know how to add/change
> things. I have KDE 3.5 and I don't know if I should go
> to KDE 4.0.

Don't. KDE4 isn't fully-functional yet compared to KDE3.

some apps of kde 4 a re good, but still the overall system quality is not at 3.5 standards. maybe by 4.1, scheduled for july, it will will function well. i hope it will function well by that time and that it will support the new libpciaccess api of the new xorg.

-- 
dott. ing. beso
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