[Aslug] Requesting library to purchase books / resources

[ninti at internode.on.net]

A good distro-agnostic, general purpose reference for all things Linux 
administration is O'Reilly's 
 
"LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell" 
 
... which isn't small at almost 1000 pages. It's intended as preparation for the 
LPIC 1 and 2 exams but almost all of it would apply to any distro. 
 
> Design Patterns: Elements of reuseable object-oriented software 
> http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Object- 
> Oriented/dp/0201633612/ref=pd_cp_b_1 
 
"Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by the "Gang of 
Four" (Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissides) is a true classic, as is 
 
"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler 
 
Both books try to be as language agnostic as possible (but use mainly Java and 
C++ examples), but I'm not sure how much general appeal they'd have. Still, 
they're pretty much the foundation of design patterns in object-oriented programming. 
 
Mike