Review by Harold McFarland
on 2020-03-10
Product: 059600754X A true test drive, this book includes a Linux Live CD that can be placed into your computer and booted directly to Linux without affecting your current operating system. As a result you can test drive Linux without any concerns about your current system integrity. The book covers the popular KDE desktop environment, using virtual desktops, change backgrounds, the Konqueror web browser, playing music and videos, games, email, using the organizer, and Instant Messaging.
Review by Harold McFarland
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596008015 Linux is a great operating system but like every other one it has some annoyances that may crop up from time to time. The purpose of this book is to help the reader to get Linux to work the way they want it to without getting annoyed in the process. As such the target audience is the Linux power user and system administrators. Some of the areas covered include configuring GNOME applications in KDE and configuring KDE applications in GNOME, X Window configuration, working with CDs and DVDs, configuring sound, converting from Outlook, interfacing with various Instant Messaging programs, working with Microsoft Office documents, multimedia, hardware issues, startup problems, system maintenance, CUPS printing, using Samba, and various administrative tasks.
Review by Harold McFarland
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596002726 The Running Linux book is expanded and updated regularly and is designed to bring the casual and new user up to speed with using Linux as well as updated information. This is all done is a distribution-neutral context which makes it one of the better guides available. Of course that also presents problems when a particular distribution does something a little bit different from the norm. If you are a serious Linux enthusiast and have been for some time you will find the book too elementary for your needs but those new to Linux will find it a great introduction.
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 Jack D. Herrington
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131488724 This is a screenshot heavy walkthrough of Linux installation and use of the KDE shell and various GUI applications. Most pages have several screenshots with smatterings of text explaining each one. There is some coverage of shell access at the end of the book. But the book is primarily focused on applications like OpenOffice, Write, Gimp and the other GUI applications. Rating: 3 0131488724 Count: 8
Review by John Matlock
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131488724 It’s about time. Linux has been the tekkies choice for operating systems for some time. But making it to the desktop is necessary before it can really grow up. Finally, people are beginning to put together simple to install systems that don’t take a lot of reading about strange acronyms. This book uses MEPIS. It’s software on a CD that just like the title says you point and click.
Review by Kip Perkins
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0130084662 I picked up this book because I have used the 2nd and 3rd editions of UNIX Administration Handbook for years. This book is easy to read and provides some entertainment with the authors’ insight into Linux administration. As with it’s brother the UAH, this book follows the same format but IS updated to reflect the Linux specifics. I picked it up also because it covers RH 7.2 and the UAH only covered 6.
Review by Phil Lee
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0764547976 Although it is claimed that this 2nd edition has been updated for RH Linux v7.0 from v6.2, it doesn’t show any updates using the GUI admin improvements included with RH Linux 7.0. The limits of GUI is Xwindows using Xfree86, tacked on in Chap 14. Most of the install processes are the typical woefully inadequate, glossed-over, dated procedures for v6 through a command line. No showing of a typical server installation which is the main subject of book, but then the author has another book for Server 7, 0-7645-4786-0
Review by R. Lodato
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131488724 One of the roadblocks to the proliferation of Linux to personal desktops is the perceived difficulty in installing and using Linux. Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller addresses the novice Linux user with his book Point & Click Linux!, published by Prentice Hall PTR. The book comes with both a distribution of SimplyMEPIS Linux on a bootable CD and a DVD with tutorials featuring Roblimo himself. Robin is the Editor in Chief for the Open Source Technology Group.
Review by S Smyth
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596004826 After spending a fair bit of time with FreeBSD and needing some information regarding Linux installations I thought this book would be a good way to speed things along. Wrong. It’s not that this book is too expensive, or poorly put together, but it’s little more than a cursory overview of the Linux operating system and a listing of the commands to get things done with a terminal. But even to find the commands to do simple things such as renaming files, is too time consuming to be bothered with.