[ale] Atlanta area Linux books

Prasanna Subash Psubash at manh.com
Wed Dec 29 16:32:50 EST 1999


I happened to go the b&n book store @ Marietta. They had a table there
labeled "Hackers Holiday Books" and most of the books there where either
Linux or Samba books.



-Prasanna Subash

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:Jhubbs at NIIT.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 11:49 AM
>To: Shahbaz Javeed; hugme at hugme.org
>Cc: ale at ale.org
>Subject: RE: [ale] Atlanta area Linux books
>
>
>Engineers' Bookstore is on (I think) Marietta St. near the Tech campus.
>Haven't been in their new location, but they used to do new 
>and used books.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shahbaz Javeed [mailto:sjaveed at bigfoot.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 10:33 AM
>> To: hugme at hugme.org
>> Cc: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Atlanta area Linux books
>> 
>> 
>> Talking about books, are there any places in Atlanta where I 
>> can get used
>> books?  I remember when we were in Boston, we could go to the Boston
>> University bookshop and buy loads of used technical books.  
>> Does gatech
>> have a similar bookshop?  If anyone knows of such a place, do 
>> let me know
>> so I dont get broke every month buying *2* computer books ;)
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Shahbaz
>> 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I went to get a perl book at the borders books on Peachtree 
>> street yesterday
>> > and noticed the same thing, they have doubled thier number 
>> of linux books in
>> > the last month... not only that but they sell 4 different 
>> distro's of linux,
>> > FreeBSD (which they have always sold) AND Quake for linux... 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On 29-Dec-99 kd4cik at starlinx.net wrote:
>> > > I happened to wander into the Micro Center (off of Powers 
>> Ferry road)
>> > > and perused their book selection. To my surprise (since I 
>> had not been
>> > > there in a while), Linux oriented books have considerably 
>> displaced M$
>> > > oriented books.  I guess that the growing need for Linux 
>> material has
>> > > been recognised by the store. They even have Corel Linux 
>> available along
>> > > with the other more commonplace distributions. Now if 
>> they would just
>> > > stock the Linux games..... 8-)
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Wasting time is an important part of living.
>> > 
>> > 
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