Review by Bradford T. Taylor
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0672327201 I heartily recommend this book to anyone doing Linux Kernel or Kernel module development. Although the Modules chapter could be expanded upon, the rest of the book gives excellent insight into the workings of the 2.6 Kernel. Also, the three appendices provide good examples and additional information. This book has provided invaluable information for completing and documenting a complex project I’ve been working on. Rating: 5 0672327201 Count: 23
Review by Brady Black
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1540461351 Great book on learning about Linux. It will tell you exactly what it is, how to choose and install your first distribution and how to customize your system. This book is great for beginners, highly recommended! Rating: 4 1540461351 Count: 6
Review by Bret A Van Hof
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1430218894 Mr. Van Vugt has done a great job of relating the how’s, why’s, and what’s of beginning the Linux Command Line. If you are going to be using a Linux Command Line for your job, school, or scripting, this is a great place to start. Relevant commands and detailed explanations will set you on a path of increased productivity. Rating: 5 1430218894 Count: 7
Review by Brian
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0132757273 Good reference for a beginner to Linux OS. Sometimes it reads a little techy but I understood what I needed to. Rating: 4 0132757273 Count: 15
Review by Brian Connors
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1449344216 (Note: this is the same book that comes with current releases of the Make Raspberry Pi Starter Kit.) The Raspberry Pi: an ultra-cheap single board computer designed for tinkerers of all ages, among other things to keep from mangling the work/school/family systems. The book: a whirlwind tour of the computer and the Raspbian Linux distro, from rationale to hardware hacking. It’s not quite a cookbook; it’s too basic for that, and O’Reilly is probably writing one as I write this.
Review by Brian Connors
on 2020-03-10
Product: 013937681X Dated, yes. But that’s the only weakness of this excellent book, which covers the philosophy and structure of userland in Unix, and it’s not an important one – nroff is still necessary for man pages, and life on the command line is something anyone dealing with a Unix box should get used to, whether the user is using a shell account on their local freenet or a cutting edge Athlon64 Linux PC or PowerMac G5.
Review by Brian Connors
on 2020-03-10
Product: Ubuntu Made Easy I’m sure this book is heresy to someone; there’s a point in the book where the authors explicitly set aside the command line junkie approach in favor of covering Ubuntu the same way Mac OS X or Windows would be covered – from the GUI down. That I think is where this book is at its most successful; it’s not that there’s anything wrong with the traditional Unix-centric approach, but that’s not why people tend to pick Ubuntu in the first place.
Review by Brian L. Simonin, RHCE, RHCSA, Security+CE
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0130084662 The Linux Administration Handbook (with its sister book Unix System Administration Handbook) is a great book for Linux/UNIX Administrators. I especially like the chapter on installing software. That was very helpful. Also the TCP/IP Networking chapter was helpful in solving a trace route problem. This is a great book for any administrator (even those who live on the dark side as Windows Administrators). Rating: 4 0130084662 Count: 19
Review by Brian L. Simonin, RHCE, RHCSA, Security+CE
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1590594584 I am a Novell SuSE Linux Professional user. I do not consider myself a newbie, however, I went ahead and read Beginning SuSE Linux from Apress. I found the book very enjoyable to read because its focus is on the Linux desktop. I do not believe you can escape the need to understand the Linux file system or shell scripting. This book does go into it a little but the focus of the book is the desktop and proves that Linux can go head to head with Windows XP.
Review by Brianna Denise Krooberg
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux for Beginner’s: Complete Guide for Linux Operating System and Command Line Where is this book when I badly needed it!? I am keeping this book on my Kindle definitely. I remember having a lesson about this and I keep on searching a lot of the complete guide on Linux! Thankfully I just have it now even late but it is a great help for me. Linux is really an amazing and interesting read for me.