[FM Discuss] Benjamin Mako Hill: praise for "Introduction to the Command Line"

[Anne Gentle]

Great thinking Andy!

I want to collect these types of testimonials and supportive statements into
one place on the FLOSS Manuals web site. I also want to set up a "Lulu
storefront" of sorts with these sorts of quotes. Please, send more to the
list when you get them. And solicit them. Andy, you're a pro - thanks for
doing this.
Anne

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Andy Oram <andyo at oreilly.com> wrote:

> I met Mako while he was sitting at the FSF book at the Open Source
> Convention. He's a researcher and highly respected hacker, and one of the
> authors of The Official Ubuntu Book, among other things. Because FSF was
> showing off its copy of "Introduction to the Command Line" at the
> conference, and Mako knew I had done a lot of work on it, he started
> praising it. I asked him to jot down his endorsement for sharing, so here it
> is:
>
>  I have written basic introductions to the command line in three
>  different technical books on GNU/Linux and read dozens of others.
>  FLOSS Manual's "Introduction to the Command Line" is at least as
>  clear, complete, and accurate as any I've read or written. But while
>  there are countless correct reference works on the subject, FLOSS's
>  book speaks to an audience of absolute beginners more effectively,
>  and is ultimately more useful, than any other I have seen.
>  --Mako
>
> Andy
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