Review by A. J. Gauld
on 2020-03-10
Product: Running Linux I bought the first edition of this when it forst came out. I bought the update because I’d come back to Linux after a gap and KDE/GNOME etc were now the norm. It filled in the gaps and the general quality of the information was as good as ever. There is no CD with this book but Linux is available everywhere these days so I prefer keeping the price low.
Review by Al Kihano
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0764545744 If you’re familiar with DOS and Windows, but not UNIX, this book will lead you throught the Linux installation process. It also has extensive beginner-level explanations of basic tools for Linux; experienced users will not find much new here, however. The CD that accompanies the book has Linux, GNOME, KDE, the GIMP, Gnumeric and a host of other useful items. Rating: 4 0764545744 Count: 5
Review by Brian Connors
on 2020-03-10
Product: Ubuntu Made Easy I’m sure this book is heresy to someone; there’s a point in the book where the authors explicitly set aside the command line junkie approach in favor of covering Ubuntu the same way Mac OS X or Windows would be covered – from the GUI down. That I think is where this book is at its most successful; it’s not that there’s anything wrong with the traditional Unix-centric approach, but that’s not why people tend to pick Ubuntu in the first place.
Review by Brian L. Simonin, RHCE, RHCSA, Security+CE
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1590594584 I am a Novell SuSE Linux Professional user. I do not consider myself a newbie, however, I went ahead and read Beginning SuSE Linux from Apress. I found the book very enjoyable to read because its focus is on the Linux desktop. I do not believe you can escape the need to understand the Linux file system or shell scripting. This book does go into it a little but the focus of the book is the desktop and proves that Linux can go head to head with Windows XP.
Review by Chad Perrin
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131478230 This book is the best distro-agnostic foundational Linux reference I’ve ever seen, out of dozens of Linux-related books I’ve read. It’s a constant battle to find a good Linux book that isn’t wedded implicitly or explicitly to a specific distribution (usually something Red Hat related), more about KDE and GNOME applications and other specific applications the authors favor than about real Linux skills, or both. Finding this book was a real stroke of luck.
Review by Craig Maloney
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596009305 Linux in a Nutshell, now in it’s fifth edition, is one of the classic works of Linux documentation. Much has changed with Linux in the two years since the fourth edition was published, and Linux in a Nutshell reflects those changes with several major changes to the book, while keeping the parts that worked from previous editions. What’s new? Linux in an Nutshell has grown since the early days of the first edition, not the least of which is the number of pages the book comprises of (924 pages).
Review by DesertHowler
on 2020-03-10
Product: Linux Bible This review originally appeared in the AZTCS journal. There are things I don’t like about this book. In Chapter 3, I’m disappointed there isn’t more detail about alternate window managers. I think too many people feel KDE and GNOME are the only choices available … or the desktop is Linux … or don’t know they can start with a blank xwindow and make their own desktop and menus.
Review by Gary E. Albers
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0738203335 The most recent previous review is now about three years old, so an update may not be out of place. This book is a decade old, published shortly after the turn of the millennium and, more importantly, a couple of years after Gnu/Linux and the open source movement finally hit the big-time; i.e., acceptance by, and endorsements from, some of the major players in the computer arena, like IBM, Sun, Dell, Intel, etc.
Review by Gary E. Albers
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0470497025 This book by one of the true gurus of computer programming is long overdue, but well worth the wait. I’m using it to refresh my dormant assembly language skills. I highly recommend this book for both beginners and rusty old-timers like me. Please note that Jeff’s book teaches assembly language programming for the IA-32 (Intel/AMD) CPUs on a Linux Ubuntu platform, NOT Windows. He uses development tools that are free in the Linux world, specifically: the KDE desktop, the Kate programming editor, the Nasm assembler, the Linux built-in linker, and the Insight debugger.
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.