Product: 0596009305

You can skip pretty much all of the other fat Linux books on the groaning shelves of bookstores. Most of them are packed with hundreds of pages of irrelevant fluff. This book is the only one you need. Nutshell exhaustively discusses every key networking utility and daemon, every shell function in the Linux operating system, with every command option and argument covered and nothing mistakenly left out. And it’s not a rehash of the Man pages, a lot of additional insight is provided on every page of this book. Linux in a Nutshell is in its 5th edition, and this flagship book remains determinedly supported by its publisher. No intelligent user should be without this book, and if you can only have room for one Linux reference on your shelf, make it this one.

I notice this book is now out of print. Stunning. What is going on at O’Reilly these days?
Rating: 5
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