Product: 0132757273

This is a good book for getting up to speed on Fedora 19 however even on this, there are some gaps. As far as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), it is not a good resource. One glaring example of this the focus on Sendmail when with both Fedora and RHEL, the mail server of choice is Postfix; Red Hat doesn’t even teach Sendmail in its training programs where Postfix is taught. I cannot recommend this book if your purpose is learning RHEL or preparing for the Red Hat Certification track. I also found the coverage of Virtualization very weak, kvm installation specifically, and I found the information on VMware’s Player better than that on KVM; he doesn’t even mention setting up VirtualBox on Fedora. Finally, he does provides some LPI pointers within the text but these are only for Linux Essentials and CompTIA; LPI is changing their certification exams and there is absolutely no mention of RHEL certification objectives. Mark Sobell is one of my favorite authors, this is the third version of this particular book I have purchased along with other Sobell books that I have and it was great to see this updated 7th edition released with the constantly changing Linux landscape featuring Fedora 19.
Rating: 4
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