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Title: Linux Toys: 13 Cool Projects for Home, Office and Entertainment by Christopher Negus, Chuck Wolber ISBN: 0-7645-2508-5 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: ok, not great
Comment: First I was a little disapointed in it's Red Hat slant. I'm more of a Debian fan so I was kindof bummed that all the code was in rpm format. After downloading Alian and converting the rpms to debs I then installed the code and had to go through and fix up a lot of stuff. (because they put things in different places)
The book itself is pretty useless, I was hoping for more of a description of how to get certain things done. Mainly I was hoping for a description of how to create a read only filesystem so you don't have to worry about system checks on startup but the author doesn't cover this at all.
Overall there are some pretty neat ideas but I was disapointed that it all revolves around Red Hat and the author doesn't talk about making them work on other systems. He also doesn't talk about how the scripts work, just how to install them (rpm -i...) I thought the book was a bit simple and should have been called "Red Hat Toys"
Rating: 5
Summary: Fun Stuff
Comment: When I first read this book, I thought," This is nothing more than a collection of Stuff he pulled off the web." After going thru it a second time I realised that I never would have thought of most of these projects. If I had thought of them, I would have spent tens of hours serching the web trying to figure out how to do them and downloading te software needed.
If you like to tinker with computers, buy this book. All of the projects are well documented and the included cd has most of the software that is mentioned in the book.
I'm glad I bought it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Now I have something to do with those old PCs in my closet!
Comment: Always looking for a something cool to tinker with, I found my perfect match in Linux Toys.
My first project this past weekend was to jump to chapter 10 and build the "Digital Receptionist." Using an unused PC (PII 300, 4GB, 128MB) and an old modem I was able to build the project, and I now get my phone messages from home answered by the machine and emailed to me at work - how cool is that?
There are 12 more projects in the book, and I will probably do the digital video recorder next.
I am not a complete Linux newbie - I have a RH 9 box on my home network, but I am no expert either. However, this is Chris Negus, the same guy that writes the Red Hat Linux Bible (great way to get the CD distro) so I found it very easy to read, and not at all intimidating.
If you have an old PC in the closet, or just like to play with Linux, get this book - it's a blast.
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Title: PC Toys: 14 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment by Barry Press, Marcia Press ISBN: 076454229X Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc Pub. Date: 31 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Linux Power Tools by Roderick Smith ISBN: 0782142265 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 25 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Red Hat Linux Bible: Fedora and Enterprise Edition by Christopher Negus ISBN: 0764543334 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Red Hat Linux 9 Bible by Christopher Negus ISBN: 0764539388 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Linux Server Hacks by Rob Flickenger ISBN: 0596004613 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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