Review by Glenn Johnson
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0132757273 I teach at a community college and they wanted me to teach an advanced Linux Class. I bought this book to evaluate and it is quite comprehensive. I highly recommend it for anyone trying to learn Redhat or Fedora Linux. Rating: 5 0132757273 Count: 15
Review by Glenn Johnson
on 2020-03-10
Product: UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook I teach at a community college and they wanted me to teach an advanced Linux Class. I bought this book to evaluate and it is quite comprehensive. I highly recommend it for anyone trying to learn Redhat or Fedora Linux. Rating: 5 0131480057 Count: 29
Review by Global engineer
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0672327201 Recommended reading(well this and the source code) for anyone interested in how the Linux kernel works, even if you don’t plan to become a kernel hacker. This book gives a very in-depth description with links to related content and ties it all together very well. Using this info it’s much easier to write really high performance application code, even if you never touch the kernel code directly. Rating: 5 0672327201 Count: 23
Review by Gnome DePlume
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1593270348 I had tremendous prior difficulty when I tried to use Linux because I could not configure essential components like my modem nor could I figure out how to run essential programs to expand and install programs. Rickford Grant’s book was amazingly easy to follow and within 1⁄2 hour, I had installed Linux and was actually using the internet and email. I have been using the system for 3 hours sofar, setting up Palm, opening and editing all kinds of Microsoft Office documents, downloading my Yahoo mail, etc.
Review by golfer
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1449316697 Exactly what I needed in our server room, a handy lookup guide for those bothersome Unix / Linux command arguments. Rating: 5 1449316697 Count: 22
Review by Gomez Adams
on 2020-03-10
Product: How Linux Works I was misled by the many glowing reviews into buying this book. This book is n’t really about how linux works. Its more like a reference or manual - with very barebones descriptions followed by instruction. It doesn’t go into depth at all about the ‘how’ or the ‘why’ as the title claims. In fact its just a regurgitation of the standard linux docs and HOWTOs (some of which were written by this author), the only advantage being that here you have them collected here between a spine.
Review by Gordon Ewasiuk
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596005695 Concise and very handy. Guides like these aren’t meant to be a complete reference on iptables. Yet, the author managed to pack quite a bit into such a small book. 82pages from page 1 to beginning of index. 21 pages to theory and operation – connection tracking, accounting, NAT, SNAT, DNAT, Transparent Proxying, load balancing, and stateless/stateful firewalls. The next 61 pages are a command reference to iptables. It is in the command reference that you shall find interesting little nuggets like:
Review by Graham King
on 2020-03-10
Product: The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook It’s huge, heavy, and contains all the syscall incantations. Everything the kernel can do for you is in here. This will also answer pretty much any question you have about Linux internals (how is shared memory implemented? does writing to disk block your process? etc). A fantastic book. Rating: 5 1593272200 Count: 29
Review by Graybeard
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0201187604 This is a review of the 5th and 6th editions of Operating Systems Concepts, by Avi Silberschatz and Peter Galvin; Greg Gagne was their co-author on the 6th edition. More recent editions are available which I haven’t yet read. For readers of this review, the main advantage of the 5th and 6th editions is that you can buy them very cheaply here on Amazon.com from a 3rd-party bookseller. For example, at this very moment, I see that a used copy of the 6th edition can be picked up for only $2.
Review by Greg Jan
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1517392772 My coworker just started using Linux and I bought the book to share with him. The reader expectation was met as the author clearly defined the different flavors of Linux, the versions and its usages. Linux is a free source software that developers are always improving on and the author went in depth and was very descriptive about this , The application commands line at the back of this book is well detailed and should get any novice or retool any expert up to scratch in managing a Linux software/ Linux is secure and reliabe operating system, check out this book to learn more Rating: 4 1517392772 Count: 39