Review by Vinny Carpenter
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0596000715 O’Reilly and Bill McCarty have done it again - they’ve gone ahead and created an awesome intro Linux book. In the same vein as Running Linux by Matt Welsh (the bible), this is a really good book for anyone who wants to get into Linux. I have been a Linux user since 1991 back when no one really knew about Linux and the Kernel was still at 0.99. I cut my teeth on SLS and Slackware releases of Linux before moving to RedHat and the O’Reilly books have been just incredible.
Review by W Boudville
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131478230 Sobell expands on his earlier books to give us this latest offering. Somewhat monumental in scope. Basically because the intended audience is quite diverse. He suggests that you could fall into any of these categories - system administrator, programmer, or new Linux user. And if you are a sysadmin or programmer, your prior experience with Linux might vary from none to considerable. The book also attempts not to play favourites concerning the various Linux distributions that exist - from Red Hat, Novell/SUSE, Debian, Knoppix and others.
Review by W Boudville
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131470248 [A review of the 3RD EDITION, written 19 July 2006.] In 2 short years, Sobell has updated his 2nd edition into this latest offering. One immediate and useful simplification is that the 4 CDs of linux that were in that edition have been replaced by one DVD, that covers both the avowedly open source Fedora Core and the Red Hat Enterprise linux. Much of the text is still broadly the same between these 2 editions, from the user’s perspective.
Review by W Boudville
on 2020-03-10
Product: 059600589X Of all the companies that arose to make a business around linux, Red Hat is perhaps the most successful, at least in the US. Many people wanting to install linux on their machines, or those buying machines with linux pre-installed, often encounter Red Hat’s version. Accordingly, this book is in its 4th edition, updated in part because linux keeps expanding its functionality. But another change from previous editions is due to Red Hat replacing Red Hat Linux with an Enterprise and Professional versions.
Review by W Boudville
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1593270348 A very up to date book for 2004⁄5. Grant deals with what would have been Red Hat Linux 10. There is officially no such thing, because in 2003, Red Hat announced that it was concentrating on its corporate products, where it would actually make some money. In retrospect, all us users who had downloaded the earlier free versions of Red Hat had been lucky for years. So independently of Red Hat, volunteers made what is now called the Fedora Core.
Review by W. F. Borman
on 2020-03-10
Product: 159327257X This is Grant’s third book about user-friendly Linux desktop distributions, following Linux For Non-Geeks about the Fedora distribution and Linux Made Easy covering the Xandros distribution. As one might expect, he gets better with each book. The first two-thirds of the book cover the all-important aspects of installing and using the Ubuntu operating system. An early chapter provides a guide to the highly personalizable Gnome windows interface, followed by a chapter on connecting to the Internet and using browsers and email programs.
Review by Wendell Murray
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131861506 Easily the best book on Linux that I have ever read or bought. Also one of the best computer books overall that I have ever used. That is saying a lot given that I have many computer books on the full range of computer topics and given that I am very picky in what I buy. The other reviews - all but one 5-star - give details on the book.