Review by craig p
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0619130040 This is a great book! The book used for my JC Linux+ class, which is basically what I used to learn and then pass the Linux+ exam on August 16, 2014! The only caveat I can think of is that it would be nice if Eckert creates a 4th edition soon, because this 3rd edition uses Fedora 13, and as of January 24, 2015, Fedora 20 is the current version!
Review by Daviangel
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux Bible Comprehensive introduction to Linux with uses latest versions of Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora to demonstrate examples with mentions of Ubuntu here and there. Understandable since the author works at Red Hat so probably a slight bias because of it. Covers just about everything you’d ever want to know about Linux and more so you’ll most likely end up using this as a reference book than something you read from start to finish.
Review by DN
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux All-in-One For Dummies I took a Fedora 18 Linux class, had purchased this book to get up to speed a bit before class started. It was helpful, to a degree, demonstrating different Linux flavors. But the enclosed DVD and instructions required knowledge of hard drive partitions which I didn’t have, and assumed use of a computer with Windows already installed. I was afraid to damage my computer so I stopped.
Review by dustmouse
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596006284 This is definitely a great companion for any Linux administrator or hobbyist who is trying to become a level 60 command line warrior. There are plenty of commands to familiarize yourself with, and they are grouped logically (rather than alphabetically), which means that when you look up a command, you can find other similar commands in the same section. This book was written with Fedora Core Linux in mind, so it may not cover some of the commands unique to other Linux distros.
Review by Glenn Johnson
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0132757273 I teach at a community college and they wanted me to teach an advanced Linux Class. I bought this book to evaluate and it is quite comprehensive. I highly recommend it for anyone trying to learn Redhat or Fedora Linux. Rating: 5 0132757273 Count: 15
Review by Glenn Johnson
on 2020-03-10
Product: UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook I teach at a community college and they wanted me to teach an advanced Linux Class. I bought this book to evaluate and it is quite comprehensive. I highly recommend it for anyone trying to learn Redhat or Fedora Linux. Rating: 5 0131480057 Count: 29
Review by GregoryDearth
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1418837237 Got this for a class in college. The text seems to be well done, augmented with a ton of screen captures. But there is a lot of incorrect info that no longer applies to any distribution of Linux. Rather, the text even admits it in a few places, that the operating systems it comes with (Fedora and Knoppix) don’t support some of the functions in the exercises it WANTS you to do.
Review by Guitar Music Guy
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0132757273 I knew almost nothing about Linux. Sobell has laid the book out very logically, and proceeds to describe the Fedora Linux system in sufficient detail for one to feel comfortable mucking around with command lines and superuser status. I’m about one-fourth of the way through the book; I’m confident that, when I’m finished, I’ll be able to get my Fedora system working exactly as I would like it to work.
Review by Harold McFarland
on 2020-03-10
Product: 059610104X This is basically a small format pocket reference to five of the most common desktop distributions of Linux. The distributions covered are Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The author covers the basics of navigating the GNOME and KDE desktop environments and the applications that come with each of the distributions. Deviating from the normal layout of such texts it is organized by the type of application instead of by the Linux distribution.
Review by Ira Laefsky
on 2020-03-10
Product: The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction Very few things in the realm of computers remain reliable and relatively constant for over 25 years; but the common core of Linux (and previously Unix) functionality have been powerful tools and relatively consistent since the days of System V ATT and Berkeley Distributions which I learned to love over a quarter century ago. Windowing systems and graphical user interfaces change between even contemporary Linux Distribution: UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, Fedora, Debian, SuSE, Red Hat; but an amazingly powerful common functionality exists among all Linux systems and similar tools in the Windows world (the Gnu utilities, MKS Shell, Cygwin, etc).