Review by Jerry White
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux All-in-One For Dummies Complete with a DVD that includes all the major distributions, this updated book is just what you need if you want to start running Linux and administering a system. Rating: 5 0470770198 Count: 13
Review by Jess
on 2020-03-10
Product: LINUX: Easy Linux For Beginners, Your Step-By-Step Guide To Learning The Linux Operating System And Command Line It is an introductory book to Linux. It provides an overall description to Linux with some explanations of the kernel and the various distributions. I recommend it as a book to provide a basis for further explorations into Linux. Rating: 5 1533683735 Count: 23
Review by Jess C
on 2020-03-10
Product: How Linux Works This book is completely fantastic. It is in-depth, but is not a struggle to absorb. Brian Ward is a fantastically clear writer, who knows very deeply about the topic he is teaching. The Aristotelian method of education insisted that the best way to determine whether someone had truly learned something, was to find out whether or not they could teach what they had learned. Reading this book has indicated to me that Brian Ward has much more than a cursory grasp of the subject of Linux, and after reading it… you will too!
Review by Jesse B.
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1453689923 This book is just good - Big letters, not overly scary and thick. Bolded commands, and practical usage. I would get this book and recommend it to anyone who wants to get familiar with linux. Rating: 5 1453689923 Count: 6
Review by Jesse B.
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0470404833 I thought this book would be a quick read, LOL my mistake! I’m happy about it though, it covers TONS of stuff. I’ve only been using a Linux OS for a few months, my primary use is on web servers (SSH). So I figured I better start getting smart and study this over the course of a year, possibly a bit more, and perhaps I’ll be able to pass an exam eventually :P Lot of stuff, Lot of stuff, good purchase.
Review by Jessica J. White
on 2020-03-10
Product: 151182607X For starters is very well explained. and gives an excellent starting point in order to read other books about Linux that explain in greater detail the fundamentals. Rating: 5 151182607X Count: 33
Review by jessie
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596002130 As a design choice, the Linux Kernel has very little assembly code. This book takes a lot of assembly code and explains it in a horrible way. A made up example is like The security_assert function saves the contents of some of the registers by the following: Movl eax,esi Pushl eax Movl eax,(Ebx-10h) pushl eax Even being good at assembly, how this code works is not apparent. All non assembly functions are very shortly described in tables.
Review by Jim
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux All-in-One For Dummies After XP stopped being supported I decided to replace it on my laptop with Linux. I had used it years ago and was interested to see how it had changed. This book will tell you all you need to know and you can load Linux from the CD that comes with it. Then you can upgrade the version you loaded. Rating: 5 0470770198 Count: 13
Review by Jim Elbert
on 2020-03-10
Product: The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction Just getting into Linux and this book is extremely nice. I always feel like the dummies guides are too dumb and some books are too smart well this seems like a great middle ground has a lot of info and I find myself going back to reference it often. Rating: 5 1593273894 Count: 86
Review by Jim Estill
on 2020-03-10
Product: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything I recently read a book called, Wikonomics - how mass colaboration changes everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams. It is a book about the social networking and collaborative sites that are becoming very popular. I found the book highly interesting since I try to follow trends and try to figure out what opportunities are available in which trends. Wikonomics points out that many times traditional business is afraid of open source projects like Linux and Wikopedia but others see a corneacopia of participation and economy.