Product: 0596002726

Before I state my thoughts on this book, at over 950 pages this is one of the biggest books you will find on a computer shelf, so it’s worth providing a list of the content within:

01. Intro to Linux

02. Installation

03. Desktop Environments

04. Basic Unix commands

05. Web Browsers & IMs

06. E-Mail Clients

07. Games

08. Office Applications

09. Multimedia

10. System Administration Basics

11. Managing Users, Groups, Permissions

12. Installing/Compiling Programs

13. Networking

14. Printing

15. File Sharing

16. X Windows

17. System start & shutdown

18. Configuring the Kernel

19. Text Editing

20. Text Processing (XML, TeX, etc)

21. Programming Tools

22. Running a Web Server

23. Handling E-Mail

24. Running an FTP Server

25. Running Web Applications with MySQL & PHP

26. Securing the System

27. Backup & Recovery

28. Running Windows Programs

As you can see, this is one INVOLVED book. With a massive amount of page, this is not for someone that is looking for a quick how-to guide, or someone that is looking for a teaching tool for Linux. First and foremost, this is a REFERENCE book, and it’s a darn good one at that.

Ideally if I wanted a guide that explained to me the ins and outs of setting up Linux and getting things up and running, I would want a lot of content, and a lot of explanation contained within. For the relatively low price of this text, that is EXACTLY what you are going to get and it’s no wonder this is in its 5th Edition.

Fantastic material that is in-depth and T-H-O-R-O-U-G-H as it examines one of the hottest operating systems out there in the world today.

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Rating: 5
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