Review by PDX Author
on 2020-03-10
Product: 013236039X The perfect recipe for transitioning to an operating system you’ll enjoy using with a good and clear conscience. I’ve dabbled in Linux distributions in the past and have had quite a bit of success and enjoyment using it. Sobell does an excellent job with this volume making Linux accessible to the everyday user. For the computer savvy Sobell’s companion volume, A Practical Guide to Linux, Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, is an equally well presented resource.
Review by Pedro Romn
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0130281875 This book is probably what you are looking for. A huge volume that covers several Linux security tasks, from passwords to permissions to X services to… In a clear and step by step approach that helps to centralize much knowledge and techniques in a single book. What is possibly as important as the quality of the content: it is highly readable. You will enjoy every second of reading.
Review by peluk
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0470343435 This is the most complete book for Linux Kernel. If you want to get a deep understanding of a particular Linux Kernel feature, this is probably the best book you’ll get. There are other books easier to read, but they don’t go nearly as deep as this one. For example, I wanted to understand the Linux I/O stack, and this is the only book I found that truly explains it.
Review by peluk
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux Device Drivers This is a great book if you want to learn about Linux device drivers. The book covers the ‘old’ model (kernel 2.6). If you are an expert in Linux device drivers, you may want to get a book that covers the new model. But if you have some Linux system programming experience, and want to learn about programming drivers in kernel space, this is a great book.
Review by Pen Name
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0071545883 Excellent book especially for the beginners (or even intermediate level admins). Linux contains so many topics to cover. This book is very well written. Its meant to give you a good grasp of the concepts. I was surprised to see LVM covered with excellent step-by-step for a newbie. Rating: 5 0071545883 Count: 17
Review by Pen Name
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0782127355 I rated this at 5 stars; however since it is well out of date, I think it should be a 4 stars. There are few linux books (or none) as well written as this. I thought the chapters on the boot process and startup scripts was much better detailed described than any of the half dozen Linux books that I have read so far: It broke it down to the BSD style vs the Sys V style.
Review by Penmachine
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596001088 The cult-like status of this book and its Web antecedents in the Linux community isn’t surprising. But even for those of us who aren’t staunch open-source partisans, it’s a surprisingly well-argued (if a bit scattered) and concise collection. Taken as a whole, the book makes a series of good business cases for when opening the source code to software is appropriate and potentially profitable – as well as maximally efficient.
Review by Perry Clark
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0470534052 This (6th ed., 2016) is a widely available and affordable primer on networking. It focuses, perhaps rightly, on Microsoft networks, though Linux gets some modest coverage and Macs are, albeit briefly and insufficiently, mentioned. Written in a conversational style, it is worth mentioning that sometimes the author’s style isn’t to everyone’s taste, and that his interpolated remarks are sometimes distractive. He does seem knowledgeable, though he has apparent biases, sometimes acknowledged, sometimes not.
Review by Perry Nally
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1784392537 Incredible book. Very helpful for anyone needing to know about embedded Linux. One thing I loved is that you learn about the toolchains and setting one up for your appropriate shop. Very useful for the programmer that’s never done embedded linux before and a perfect reference for those that have. Big thank you to this author! Rating: 5 1784392537 Count: 7
Review by Pete Theisen
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1590594444 Hardening Linux? Isn’t Linux already secure? Well, yes, for ordinary use. But if you have valuable information on a Linux computer there are those who will try to get it, and might know how. This is the sort of book that covers the topics of interest to those who administer Linux systems that do have valuable information on them. The techniques described can keep the valuable information out of reach from all but the most determined and skilled cyber-crooks.