Review by Mark R.
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0470497025 Good solid somewhat updated version of his classic book. Uses Linux instead of DOS like the older version Rating: 5 0470497025 Count: 13
Review by Mark W. Polczynski
on 2020-03-10
Product: 013236039X The author has done a very good job at clarifying such a detail-oriented operating system. I have extensive Unix and Windows experience and this text does an excellent job at bridging the gaps between Linux, Windows, and Unix. I highly recommend this book to both ‘newbs’ and experienced users. Great Job ! Rating: 5 013236039X Count: 13
Review by Mark Wolfgang
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0130158070 This book is incredibly thorough, and up to date. For example, Red Hat Linux 7 has just come out, and does now has xinetd as a replacement for inetd. Well, you guessed it, this book has about 27 pages on xinetd! Want info on ipchains? This book has at least 50 pages on the subject! I could go on and on about this book it is so good!
Review by MarkD
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0132757273 Full disclosure: I am a UNIX/Linux system admin by profession, and we generally don’t use the GUIs much. I will say I was slightly disappointed. What’s weak? Coverage of systemd and pam and lvm. What’s missing entirely? Network bonding, clustering and the Red Hat Satellite server. What else could it use? A whole section on command line account creation and administration. What’s very good? The coverage of CUPS is one of the best.
Review by Marshall L. Merrill
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596002130 These are the comments needed to understand Linux code, very helpful and thorough. The authors are knowledgeable, and explain the material well. Rating: 5 0596002130 Count: 17
Review by Martijn
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596001088 A classic book on open-source development, the development of Linux (evolutionary/bazaar-style) vs development of BSD (centralised/cathedral-style), and spot-on observations about software development in general. This collection of essays, written by a vocal voice in the (early) open-source community, takes the reader into the daily world of open-source software development, and describes many practical problems and solutions. As compared to Richard Stallman’s Free Software essays, Raymond takes a more practical and less radical approach, in order to write public software that people actually want, and leading idealistic projects while delivering results.
Review by Martin F. Melhus
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1449345379 It doesn’t go into a lot of depth - not even a shadow of the O’Reilly book for the Arduino. But for getting started with a BeagleBone or BeagleBone black, it’s useful and covers a lot of ground. And the price is reasonable enough that it makes more sense to buy this book to figure out if a BBB will work for your application than buying the BBB (or, if you want to spend more and get less, an original BeagleBone).
Review by Mary E. Sibley
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0380815931 Romance and image are important to technology, as is interface. From the command line grew a number of applications. This book is an essay on the early history and sociology of the personal computer. The author considers Apple, Microsoft, Linux, and Be, Inc. and makes analogies. HTML files are just telegrams. The introduction of the Mac started a sort of holy war in the computer world. Even after the introduction of Windows, the underlying differences remained.
Review by Mary Jo Sminkey
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1491939982 As a professional web developer, I often have to work in Terminal to do things like edit the hosts file or copy files to remote servers, but I generally avoid it unless necessary as I don’t really have a ton of experience working in CLI or Linux. So this was a perfect book for me to get more experience and feel more comfortable working in Terminal and finding out more about the kinds of things that I can do and not have to worry about breaking my system.
Review by mat
on 2020-03-10
Product: The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction Love this book way of teaching and how it exposes the learner not only to script use but also to historical context to understand exactly how Unix and Linux system were developed and philosophy of the linux society. Would really recommend this book for the linux beginner. Rating: 5 1593273894 Count: 86