Review by cattytux
on 2020-03-10
Product: The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction I really like this book. It’s easy to understand, it progresses naturally, and the chapters are short (10 pages or so each) and easily digestible. There’s even a URL to get a free PDF version of the book. I’ve bought many Linux books here on Amazon and this is one of the best for the price. Even though it’s a few years old, it’s still relevant.
Review by cattytux
on 2020-03-10
Product: How Linux Works PROS: Easy to read and understand, excellent coverage of the ins and outs of Linux. CONS: Just one: The spine of the book is not firmly attached to the pages; mediocre binding. ***UPDATE (2/24/16): I decided to update my review because, after buying another book from No Starch Press, I discovered that their books are bound unattached to the spine on purpose. Apparently, this style of binding helps preserve the spine of their books and prevent it from cracking.
Review by CBayona
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1450588301 My Linux reference guide to Linux commands, I like it quite a bit. Rating: 4 1450588301 Count: 7
Review by CeSinge
on 2020-03-10
Product: Intrusion Prevention and Active Response Will Intrusion Prevention and Active Response help you in purchasing your next IPS system? Yes and no. Yes, because it will provide you with a really good insight about what IPS’ are about, where they will help, where they will fail, and where they will make things worse. But you’ll have a hard time if you’re not technically savvy, if you don’t master at least the basics of TCP/IP, network and application security, Linux, and even C and Assembler up to a certain extent.
Review by CF
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux Bible I’m a computer engineering student and network administrator with a fairly heavy background in MS operating systems and programming. When I decided to move on to the *nix world, the Red Hat Linux 9 Bible came highly recommended from my other friends (also powerusers). While this book is not a complete reference for everything that can be done with Linux (ie. PHP), it’s an excellent introduction and reference, and provides a thorough walkthrough for starting a variety of services that are packaged with the RH9 distribution, including the Apache HTTPd, vsFTPd, sendmail, MySQL, BIND DNS, DHCP, and Samba servers.
Review by CF
on 2020-03-10
Product: Embedded Linux Primer I’ve started this few weeks ago, and so far I really like it. my background: I develop in C++ and objective-c, but I have very little experience with Linux in general, and basically no experience with any embedded system. The book is easy to follow; has good info about how the system works, and overall is a good guide to start moving the first steps into the embedded world.
Review by Chad
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0380815931 I have always been a Windows user (since 3.1). Up until recent, I made the switch to Linux and haven’t looked back. However, being a new user of GNU/Linux, I was in awe (still am) of this powerful piece of genius and everything which it represents. Using it is like being in the presence of a beautiful, exotic God. With great power comes the great urge to understand the history of how it came to be.
Review by Chad Perrin
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131478230 This book is the best distro-agnostic foundational Linux reference I’ve ever seen, out of dozens of Linux-related books I’ve read. It’s a constant battle to find a good Linux book that isn’t wedded implicitly or explicitly to a specific distribution (usually something Red Hat related), more about KDE and GNOME applications and other specific applications the authors favor than about real Linux skills, or both. Finding this book was a real stroke of luck.
Review by Charles
on 2020-03-10
Product: The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction Linux is vast, and the solutions varied. What is great about this Linux intro book is that the author provides many useful examples. Types of problems that arise regularly, and he outlines the options that are most useful. What is needed is some one like Shotts to hone in on the most relavant use cases, and from there each individual can branch out from this base.
Review by Charles A
on 2020-03-10
Product: The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook /* Name: Charles * Age: 23 * Purchased: May, 2013 */ Organization: [0] -> The book is divided into chapters. [1] -> Each chapter has multiple sections. [2] -> Each chapter ends with a summary. [3] -> At the very end of each chapter are exercises meant to reinforce what was learned in the chapter. This is by far one of the best computer science texts I own.