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

[Lachlan Musicman]

random musing: It would be great to get such a quote from a name that "an
audience of absolute beginners" would recognise - the only person that
springs to mind is Stephen Fry, but I'm sure there are other moderately
famous thinkers/linux users out there...

L.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 05:59, Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>wrote:

> 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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