Ebooks on Linux

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> So if you fail the course and want to do it again, you have to buy the
> book again?

It's a non credit course, so there's not a lot of incentive to do it
again.  BTW, it was one of the free on line courses offered by Coursera,
/www.coursera.org.  The Computer Networks course was conducted by the
University of Washington.  I had previously took a Python course from
the University of Toronto.

>
> Also those books tend to be useful reference material later.  6 months
> limits are stupid on text books.

I agree. I still have my math EE texts from my time at Ryerson, back in
the '80s
>
>> > BTW, the book was "Computer Networks" 5th edition, by Andrew Tanenbaum
>> > (of Minix fame) and David Wethereral (the course instructor).
> Hmm, I have never seen a paperback version.  I think mine is a 1st or
> 2nd edition.
>
> I suspect the 5th edition no longer bothers to cover ATM. :)

The 5th edition was published in 2012 and has about a page or so on PPP
over ATM.  However, I don't recall any mention of Frame Relay.  I was
also surprised at the paperback version, as I hadn't previously seen one
either.  One point, on the top left corner, there's a note stating that
the book is not to distributed outside of the Indian subcontinent.  My
copy was shipped from the U.S..


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