Review by EM
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0321636783 A good survey of Linux/Unix command line use. Excellent place to start if you want to grasp what those terminal functions (yes, on Mac OSX and also of course on Linux/Ubuntu/Mint) are all about. I’ve gotten a lot out of it - with just a final chapter or two to go. Rating: 4 0321636783 Count: 6
Review by Eric Jain
on 2020-03-10
Product: 013236039X Despite it’s length, this book avoids (for the most part) degenerating into a concatenation of man pages. The text is concise and accurate, as far as I can tell, and examples are short and to the point. I was a bit surprised that even though such a large book wouldn’t seem attractive for beginners, some of the basics (e.g. file systems) are discussed in great detail, but without much technical depth.
Review by Federico Lucifredi
on 2020-03-10
Product: Ubuntu Made Easy Step-by-step instructions for most things a new user could ever want to try, from installation and live-cd testing to customizing the terminal, including chapters dedicated to most desktop common applications: graphics drawing, Internet connectivity, printer setup, file and disk management, music and DVD playback, gaming, and much more. Richly illustrated, the book can be meaningfully read away from the keyboard and is completely up to date, reflecting the status of Ubuntu 12.
Review by Freddi
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0470082933 This book is full of command line commands that have been quite helpful. Even though Ubuntu and other Linux versions come with a lot already, this book helped me use Wine to play some programs that were old favorites for me in Windows. I highly recommend this book after you have gotten a little familiar with linux. It helps a lot. Rating: 5 0470082933 Count: 18
Review by Frog
on 2020-03-10
Product: 159327257X The author attempts to explain the install, setup and usage of Ubuntu Linux. However there are no real solutions or answers given, there a lot of try this, or maybe, or something else, and go look at some website for the information. This is confusing and definitely not informative. If you have versions more recent that the 10.whatever he explains this book is of no use. Rating: 2 159327257X Count: 28
Review by Frog
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0131478230 Being somewhat new to Linux (Ubuntu) I found this book extremely helpful. Discussions of Ubuntu specifics was very helpful. Excellent book even if you are new to Linux. Rating: 5 0131478230 Count: 46
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 George E. Creel
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0470125055 The book is for an outdated verison of Ubuntu. This book is for V6 and current version is V7. Still, much is the same. Rating: 2 0470125055 Count: 8
Review by Gregory A Williams
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0672336243 I’m a 20-year veteran of Windows-based computing. This was the second book I bought to support my first attempt to deploy a Linux-based IT infrastructure. It was more than good enough for me to set up a laptop, a server and a rudimentary Apache / PHP / MySQL web site. The first book, despite being only 18 months old, was hopelessly out of date. Enough has changed between Ubuntu’s version 12 and 13 that few of the examples it offered were easy to follow.