Review by J. Huckaby
on 2020-03-10
Product: Intrusion Prevention and Active Response Intrusion Prevention and Active Response (IPAR) is a welcome departure from many books covering intrusion prevention and detection. The authors clearly distinguish between intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS), a distinction often conflated in media, training manuals and other educational material. The level of presentation is well suited for someone familiar with security principles, techniques and methods. If you are new to Linux, then you will probably need supporting materials to get through the more complex chapters.
Review by J. W. Rine
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596008015 Linux Annoyances for Geeks is a guide to help system administrators fine tune their systems for themselves and their users. The text compares various tweaks and modifications across several popular distributions. It’s part cookbook and part procedural manual for making modifications to Fedora/Red Hat, Debian, and SUSE systems for both Gnome and KDE desktops. The book was published in 2006. As such, some of the material is a bit dated.
Review by James J. Sherin
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux Bible I taught from Negus’s Fedora Core 3 book for several semesters at the local Community College. I found it to be as good a publication as the one that I’m reviewing now. There is a tremendous amount of information on the topic presented in a readable fashion and should be on the desktop of anyone who needs to support Linux systems and applications. That being said, however, it is not a text from which to teach people just learning LINUX/UNIX, because of the lack of support materials.
Review by Jeffery Page
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596006284 It is a handy little guide/reference for Red Hat Linux (Fedora Core 1, Nov 2003 specifically) and even some shell programing (scripts).It has chapters to get you started, an index. 179 pages + 10 page index. Rating: 4 0596006284 Count: 21
Review by Jerry Saperstein
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596006284 A pocket sized guide to the essential commands of Linux. While specific to an older version of Fedora, this is still a very handy reference. All the essential commands are covered and explained. This is a small book with a limited purpose and it acheives its goals. More or less indispensable for the Linux user. Jerry Rating: 5 0596006284 Count: 21
Review by John Matlock
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0471752827 I know, I know! I should have at least tried Linux by now. But I hadn’t. Then I found this book. Among all of the books on Linux at the book store, this one said, here’s seven different distributions of Linux that you can install. Furthermore, in Chapter 4 it had 35 pages describing the different distributions. Why, for instance, would I want to install Xandros, Mandriva or SuSE instead of the Fedora (Red Hat) core.
Review by John Matlock
on 2020-03-10
Product: How Linux Works This is the second Linux book you should buy. First you need something a bit simpler to get the of off the ground (or off the CD perhaps). Perhaps the ‘Linux For Non-Geeks’ which even includes a distribution of the latest Fedora (RedHat) core. But by the time you are getting ready to actually make the system do something, then you need this book. The sub-title is ‘What every Superuser should know.
Review by John Matlock
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1592007287 With some 18 million users, mostly handling server functions, Linux has become one of the major operating systems used in the world. Originally it found its biggest use in web servers, mail servers and the like. In recent years it has grown into supercomputer clusters, increased scientific/engineering use, and lately increased use as office workstations. In the installation sections, Fedora is used as the example of a distribution to install.
Review by Jon E. Brubaker
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1593270348 I have Linspire 5.0 and I wanted to learn more about Linux command line. The book is good if you are using Fedora Core and it was a good start for command line. I enjoyed it but it could be a little more in depth. Rating: 4 1593270348 Count: 13
Review by L. Fesenden
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0132757273 …It just so happens that I have been working lately at readying my work infrastructure for the additional release of RHEL 7. This book helps to take a lot of pain out of that new release by going over what I believe are the important changes / additions a person really should know. Like Sobells other books, he takes great pains to guide you through a variety of topics that generally amount to a good basic understanding of the operating system.