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Title: Learning UNIX Operating System, Fifth Edition by Jerry Peek, Grace Todino-Gonguet, John Strang ISBN: 0-596-00261-0 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's called LEARNING UNIX for a reason!!
Comment: For all the people who whined and pined about how this book didn't talk about anything: 1) Pick the book up. 2) Look at it's width. 3) Note that a 3/4cm book will not answer all your questinos about a 30-yearold, complex, multiuser, multitasking operating system! Honestly, what did you expect in 100 pages!? For everyone else who is new/practically new to the Unix OS, get this book. $10 will not break you. It then refers other books to you. I also recomend Unix in a Nutshell (and all the other books by O'Reilly, they're amazing) for some more indepth information on the Unix OS. Then it will talk about smaller parts of the OS and then you can get another O'Reilly book about that! I'm actually excited. So in short, one book will not tell you everything you need to know about anything!
Rating: 5
Summary: Ideal for total Unix newbies
Comment: People who have never used Unix will find it very intimidating, but this book will definitely change that. This book doesn't try to throw a lot of information at you, but rather, it gives you a nice, easy-going introduction to using Unix.
Some of the books strengths are its using of examples and illustrations. Using screens shots to show what the user will (or should) see helps the Unix shy better understand should happen when they do something. This book really does a good job in going step by step in order to accomplish. New users definitely won't feel like they will get lost.
The other strength is how the book covers errors that users might encounter, and how to deal with them. Afterall, new users will make mistakes, and it helps to have a book that will tell users why they got that error.
If you have a fair amount of experience in Unix, you should definitely read other books. If you are really new to Unix, then definitely read this book. You will definitely feel more confident when you are done. Even those who have learned Unix before just might learn sometihng new (I did). :)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good introduction
Comment: This is a good first book on Unix. A reader of the book can decide which of the subjects covered in the book interests him, and go deeper by reading other books. Be sure to check the errata page at oreilly.com for mistakes in the book.
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Title: Unix in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference for SVR4 and Solaris 7 (3rd Edition) by Arnold Robbins ISBN: 1565924274 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide (2nd Edition) by Deborah S. Ray, Eric J. Ray ISBN: 0321170105 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 27 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Learning the vi Editor (6th Edition) by Arnold Robbins, Linda Lamb ISBN: 1565924266 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: VI Editor Pocket Reference by Arnold Robbins ISBN: 1565924975 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: UNIX for Dummies by John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young ISBN: 0764504193 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 09 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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