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Title: Practical Linux by M. Drew Streib, Michael Turner, John Ray, Bill Ball, William Ball, Tony Guntharp, Drew Streib ISBN: 0-7897-2251-8 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Practical (outdated) approach
Comment: 685 pages divided by 31 chapters and 6 big parts. The big parts are: Linux basics (entering commands, using text editors, etc, everything on the command line), Configuring your system (from the command line), The X window system (with an overview of multimedia tools), Connecting to the ISP (and using email, FTP, browsers, telnet and IRC), system administration (basic programming and shell programming, boot managers, users, network connections, daemons, FS, kernel,...) and appendices.
This book pretends to teach how to do things not why you need to do this or that. So this is a practical book and, because linux is evolving fast, it is outdated.
Another problem of the book is that there are many authors, each responsable for a chapter or so, and there is no good coordination between them. This brings some repeated things and a feeling of no constant evolution in complexity or evolution on the presentation himself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best UNIX Book I've Seen!
Comment: This book has repeatedly saved me when I needed information that the man pages are too arcane to provide. I used the book for practical suggestions on how to use the grep utility to search for multiple terms. And, it was the only UNIX book I could find that gave practical and meaningful suggestions about how to configure the modem via the command line.
Get this book, it will save you a lot of time!
Rating: 5
Summary: Practical, step-by-step guide
Comment: This book is one of the rare guides which is organize not by what the author knows but what are the typical problems you (the reader) have to solve. I would call it "How to.." book. Almost every time when I need to mount the disk, add the device I found exact instructions how to do it and it worked.
I am not very experienced Linux user (< 2 years) and I found this book just right for me.
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Title: Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Linux by Peter Norton, Arthur Griffith ISBN: 0672315734 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 22 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Everyday Linux by Kathy Miles, Ethan Metsger ISBN: 0130917621 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 03 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Sams' Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours by Bill Ball, Stephen Smoogen, Stephen Smoogen, Ryan K. Stephens ISBN: 0672311623 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 13 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Inside Linux by Michael Tobler ISBN: 0735709408 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 17 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Linux Desktop Starter Kit by John P. Lathrop ISBN: 0072122838 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 28 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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