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Nuts and bolts information only. No frills, no fluff nor are there tutorials that are so unrealistic to real world applications. The author does an excellent job of getting to the point and explaining features of Red Hat 6.1 quickly and concisely. Usually, the Red Hat webpage has the answers to most questions when you can filter out the useless fluff to find the information you need. Since searching Red Hat’s webpage for answers to your questions now yields more useless discussion forum questions of someone who wants to install the latest peripherials on yesterday’s hardware, yesterday’s kernel, and yesterday’s Red Hat version 2 than meat to solve problems at hand, I bought this book to be quicker and more efficent to find the information I need to use for daily administration of the Red Hat servers I maintain at work to keep co-workers, management, and customer’s happy.
Even though this book talks about the X-Windows, the author discusses how to do all features and functions in text / prompt mode which is good for those like me who do not use X windows in order to get more hard drive space and faster CPU performance. A little DOS / Unix experience is recomended and makes this book even more powewrful as a reference tool. But if you are getting started, this book, along with Red Hat’s webpage and the ability to filter out fluff at Red Hat’s search engine, will help you understand and work Red Hat Linux.
Rating: 5
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