Product: 0596000715

O’Reilly and Bill McCarty have done it again - they’ve gone ahead and created an awesome intro Linux book. In the same vein as Running Linux by Matt Welsh (the bible), this is a really good book for anyone who wants to get into Linux.
I have been a Linux user since 1991 back when no one really knew about Linux and the Kernel was still at 0.99. I cut my teeth on SLS and Slackware releases of Linux before moving to RedHat and the O’Reilly books have been just incredible. In fact, I still have the first edition of Running Linux by Matt Welsh that I bought in 1995. Having said all that, I just bought this book for the free copy of Red Hat 7.2 included in it. But I still spent a couple of hours going through the book and I am thoroughly impressed with the treatment each subjects gets in this book. Starting with the installation to configuring and installing X, GNOME to setting up networking, this book is a complete resource for anyone starting up with Linux.
Rating: 5
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