Review by Danny McAllaster
on 2020-03-12
Product: RHCSA/RHCE Red Hat Linux Certification Study Guide First of all, this book is meant to help you study for two different exams. This means that the topic are covered in a bit of a strange order. First, the RHCSA is covered. This is the Red Hat entry level exam. Unless you are a long time sysadmin, you can expect to learn quite a bit from this part of the book, even if you have been running Linux as a normal user for years (as I have).
Review by A. Rutter
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux Bible The book is pretty much well written and does contain a lot of good info, however Ive got to drop my rating for the overly-hyped marketing. While the author is clear that the team putting this together is a fully Red Hat group the covers & write-ups claim …a focus on the latest version of Red Hat…Fedora…and Ubuntu…. Yes, Ubuntu is regularly mentioned and a few Ubuntu instructions are presented but understand that the book really is about Red Hat/Fedora and just barely scratches any Debian products.
Review by A. Y.
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0619130040 Just OK, do not get if you are new to Linux. It is based on Fedora linux, old version but who cares? 90% of book is about working in BASH SHELL (command line) which is same with latest version of Fedora or even other Linux distros. I installed Kubuntu Linux but still I have no problem following book. Do not get latest version. In fact this version has a bit extra in comparison!
Review by Amazon Customer
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1593270348 The book is very helpful in setting up a Fedora Linux installation if the accomopaning disks were complete. The insturctions in the book were clear and concise. My problem was that I have only one hard drive and needed to repartition it using a partition program. (I used Partition Magic.) When it came time to load the linux supplied with the book onto the machine, it had difficulty recognizing the partions and did not load properly.
Review by Anthony E. Rutledge
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0470888458 Combined with previous training and experience, I used to this book to pass the Linux+ exam LX0-101. I just finished part two of this book which covers topics on Linux+ exam LX0-102. With that in mind, let me say that Mr. Smith should be commended for contributing such a useful text to the canon. Under the constraint of being a certification text, Mr. Smith has covered all the technical points of the Linux+ and added practical advice and anecdotes where appropriate.
Review by C. Beltran
on 2020-03-10
Product: 8176567221 I really like Minasi’s Windows books. I’ve learned virtually everything I know about Windows from Mark; I only found this book after I had read a number of other Linux books, and I have to say, although there isn’t anything drastically wrong with this book, virtually every other introduction to Linux I had read was better than this book. I like Mark Sobell’s books and I like Fedora unleashed.
Review by C. Beltran
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0782141196 I really like Minasi’s Windows books. I’ve learned virtually everything I know about Windows from Mark; I only found this book after I had read a number of other Linux books, and I have to say, although there isn’t anything drastically wrong with this book, virtually every other introduction to Linux I had read was better than this book. I like Mark Sobell’s books and I like Fedora unleashed.
Review by calvinnme
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596009305 This book covers the administration of, usage of, and shell programming on Linux systems. The book is an overview of Linux and serves as an excellent reference, but doesn’t come close to a tutorial. This 6th edition continues to be a good extended man page for the operating system’s many commands, features, and utilities. Linux has recently been extended, and most of those extensions appear to be covered in this book.
Review by Charles Wilkes
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux Bible This is a good book for beginners. Downside: It focuses on commands used for Fedora and RedHat Linux. This is disappointing because Ubuntu is the most popular flavor of Linux now. The authors should address this gap, but they don’t. Upside, the language is clear and they remind you how to continue to configure the system from earlier chapters if you’ve followed previous examples. Rating: 4 0470230193 Count: 52
Review by Clint
on 2020-03-10
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.