Review by Tim Robertson
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596003307 Unix Power Tools, an apt title not meant to be redundant (Unix is THE power-user’s operating system, after all) has been the ShopSmith manual or the Unix Almanac since it first appeared in the early 1990s. The second edition appeared in 1999, and with the amazing, if not predicted, growth of Unix and expansion into many flavors; it’s fitting that a 3rd edition should appear now. Over half of the articles have been revised since that last edition to include information pertaining to many of the smaller but ground-gaining Unix’s such as Linux, freeBSD, and Mac OS X’s Darwin.
Review by Timothy D. Legg
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596006284 If you are partially experienced with the Linux command line interface, this book is great to have, and essential if you are off the internet. Reference-style detail is given to the most valuable commands you will come across. Also has tricks and tips for user and administrator tools. As a former engineering educator, I can recommend this book as a supplemental textbook for a systems administration course. For the price, the students will thank you too.
Review by Timothy M Butterworth
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596100272 If you are using a FLOSS GNU/Linux Distribution and you have not yet learned the real power of the Command Line Interface Terminal then I highly recommend learning bash! Rating: 5 0596100272 Count: 6
Review by Timothy M Butterworth
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1118531744 This is a Great Study Guide For Learning FLOSS GNU/Linux. If you are interested in computers or Information Technology and you have not looked at what Free Libre Open Source Software has to offer I high recommend you take some time to learn it. Free as in Freedom will never be overtaken by proprietary closed source. Freedom to develop at my leisure instead of being dictated to! Rating: 5 1118531744 Count: 10
Review by Timothy M Butterworth
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596005695 When is a firewall not a firewall… When it is Microsoft’s or the Microsoft like FirewallD. IPTables is a robust high performance firewall and I recommend anyone using FLOSS GNU/Linux to learn it to assist in securing your systems! Rating: 5 0596005695 Count: 6
Review by Timothy T. Wee
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1584503718 This book covers a wide breadth of what you need to get started with Linux programming. The writing is very good and readable. The examples though simple, are very clear and concise, and makes you understand at a fundamental level what elements of Linux you need to know. The ones I liked in particular were: - IPC (interprocess communication) - Linux process model, and pThreads - shell scripting, awk, sed
Review by tjain
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1449316387 Version Control with Git is an attempt to one book for reference, tutorial and manual. This attempt makes book bulky and confusing at time. Though book talk about installation on Windows environment but after that it completely ignores windows. In my consulting experience, I have noticed that most of the developers are on Window though servers may be running on Unix/Linux. It seems to me that book assumes basic familiarity with version control systems but never states this assumption clearly.
Review by tkent
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux Bible Don’t bother. Very generic - you can get all this from various forums on the web. Web server and DNS sections are watered down and primarily for Red Hat/Fedora. No good details on zones/BIND/named. His Red Hat Linux9 Bible from 2003 is much better than this. Rating: 2 0470230193 Count: 52
Review by TLAW_DBA
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0130084662 It is a great handbook. It covers all the major Linux flavors on the market. The book is easy to follow with ton of information. I recommend it. Rating: 5 0130084662 Count: 19
Review by TLAW_DBA
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131478230 Just so you know the book is big but has very useful information. All major and common commands are discussed with examples along. The author also discussed two important editors (VI and EMACS). I found the book very helpful for novices as well for experienced linux users. Overall, I recommend this book. You will not be disappointed. Rating: 5 0131478230 Count: 46