Review by Patrick Shepherd
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0380815931 As a hardware/software engineer I have worked with MS-DOS, Windows, MacOS, and UNIX for many years. Reading this fairly short, critical, and sometimes hysterically funny essay was an enjoyable experience, albeit I had some major reservations about some of Neal’s suppositions and conclusions. Stephenson presents, first of all, a rather simplified version of the history of PC computing world and the operating systems that have helped define and advance (or impede) the development of the PC from something that only a geek could love to a ubiquitous near-appliance.
Review by Paul Floyd
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1584503718 Looks like I’m going to break the mould of giving five star reviews to this book. Part I is a brief overview of the history and motivation behind Linux. No bones there. Part II covers compiler and related tools. I learnt a few things from these chapters (I wasn’t familiar with either autotools or gcov). Part III covers application development. The emphasis is mainly on IPC. There are some grim errors in the code.
Review by Paul Gilmore
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1430219300 Several months ago I was asked to evaluate a LAMP platform ( Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP ) for an in-house intranet application. I choose CentOS and this book to begin. So how did I get on. Getting Started with CentOS … This is the first section of the book and spans 4 chapters. It answers the questions, why choose CentOS, installation and where to download the files from, a few basic commands and how to patch your fresh install with the latest updates using the YUM tool.
Review by Paul Helbert
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1593270348 I had an hour to kill, so stopped in the local bookstore intending to read but not buy. Got absorbed in this one and ended up buying. Decided to try working through the exercises, and am glad I did. Mr. Grant’s excellent progressions are sound pedagogy. If it worked for his Mom and for me (a sixty year old neo-geek) it just might work for you. I won’t say that this is the only Linux book you will ever need; but it is the only one you need to get going.
Review by Paul M. Dubuc
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1932394508 This is an excellent Perl tutorial for those who are already familiar with UNIX/Linux shell scripting and other common utilities like find, sed, grep, and awk. Perl combines the strengths of each of these tools and surpasses them in one powerful and portable scripting language. This book is well worth the time and money spent with it for those in its target audience. This book is very well written.
Review by Paulo Eusebio
on 2020-03-10
Product: LINUX: Easy Linux For Beginners, Your Step-By-Step Guide To Learning The Linux Operating System And Command Line Not very detailed but carries good information on Linux and its commands. Rating: 4 1533683735 Count: 23
Review by paulsm
on 2020-03-10
Product: 059600222X On the one hand, a typical Linux user is going to install a pre-built package (Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu, etc) on pre-built PC. This book isn’t for them - there are plenty of books for learning and using Linux. On the other hand, embedded systems developers often have a good, working toolchain from a vendor like WindRiver or DataLight. This book isn’t necessarily for them, either. But if you’re building your own system: your own DIO controllers, perhaps with a mix of flash drives and conventional storage, perhaps remote booting … and if you’ve decided to use Open Source as your platform …
Review by paulsm
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0764579010 I haven’t seen any other book - anywhere - with this level of coverage for the ins/outs of dealing with assembly language programming in contemporary Linux environments. Of particular interest is: a) Good, high-level introduction to IA32 instruction set b) How to call standard library functions as easily as programming in C c) How to bypass the standard library and make direct 0x80 syscalls instead. d) Shared vs dynamic linking
Review by PcolaLUG
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596004613 I recieved this book last night at our meeting and got home last night and read it cover to cover. It was in my opion a very good refrence book to common server issues, From removing unneeded services to tweaking Linux servers for mass webserving. It had easy to follow language and even provided some nice Bash scripts to help you out. I have spent most of today trying out some of the commands in my own system.
Review by PDX Author
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131478230 This is the most comprehensive and up to date resource on the subject of leveraging the power of the Linux Operating System. The book’s description offers the content covered. What I think is important to a perspective user of this reference is to know that it is written in a smooth style that is accessible and understandable by entry level users/programmers. Rating: 5 0131478230 Count: 46