Rating: 
Summary: Fair overview
Review: This book is a fair overview but doesn't go in near enough detail for any given topic. I can only imagine this as a book for folks with some unix experience but not enough knowlege of whats out there for RHL. You'll need some more detailed books for doing real work.
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Summary: Not Bad
Review: I think the book should cover in more detail..X programs such as Netcfg..It tells you how to write a chat script for your modem but does not tell you how to use Linuxconf in such a way that you can configure it from the GUI interface. For Linux beginners like myself this would have been a big help...
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Summary: Not impressed.
Review: I've been working with computers most of my life and am an MCSE. I wanted to learn Linux so I bought this book. This is the most poorly organised operating systems book I've ever read. He tells you to install this program and run that file but doesn't give a command-line for how to do it. An example from page 48: "Mount your Red Hat CD-ROM and navigate to the RedHat/RPMS/i386 directory". No word on how to "navigate". At least he could have mentioned the CD command *somewhere* in there. The actual commands are buried in the Appendix. This is definately *not* for someone new to Linux.
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Summary: Confusing
Review: I think it's a very confusing book for a beginner like me, but yet doesn't go into much detail for an advanced user, like I want to be. It you don't know how to install ethernet card, this book is no help. It often goes something like "If bla bla has any aliases, enter them in the aliases box". Thanks, I could have figured that myself if I only knew what these aliases were. If I were like you, and didn't have this book yet, I wouldn't buy it.
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Summary: Overall a good book but lacking in some areas
Review: I was most bothered by the lack of partition information. More or less it says to create the partitions but it doesn't tell you what sizes or anything. To a linux beginner I have no idea what size to make them. Anyhow, I got linux up and running.
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Summary: Too little info for the average system administrator....
Review: Unfortunately I didn't find enough info in this book to configure a LINUX machine with all services you would find on an NT or Novell server. Maybe the LINUX Network Toolkit is a better choice. Please mail me if you agree to this, so I can order it without hesitation.
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Summary: not enough detail
Review: I bought this book because it promised to give detailed information on many things, but in fact the chapter on setting up a PPP server was woeful. I couldn't even find out how to setup a getty from here.
Rating:
Summary: Good for a technical person that is new to Linux
Review: Overall I believe the book is a good buy. However, there were two things I found disappointing.The first was the fact that the CDE window manager was not included on the CD's even though the book made it sound like it was (Page 107). See customer comment titled "A reader from USA , April 4, 1999". Secondly I didn't think there was enough information on partitioning. The book recommends setting up partitions (/usr, /home, /, /var) to name a few, but it doesn't recommend how much space to dedicate to each. The first time I set up the partitions and installed the packages I ran out of disk space for the targeted partition /usr. I had to go back and allocate more space to /usr and try again. The second time through it worked. No big deal. However, after using Linux for several weeks and after I had configured X windows, I discovered that I should have devoted more space to /usr and a little less to /home (since I'm running this as a workstation and not a server; I only have one user- myself). There should have been more information about what each of the partitions recommended by the book are for. The book does mention that if you wish to install the entire CD you will need x number of bytes free on your disk, but which of the partitions should have the free space? Besides that this book is good for a technical person that is new to Linux. I was able to have my system running Linux in a short time with few headaches that I could blame the book for. Always reference more than one source. There are plenty of web sites that can help. Part of being a computer geek is just trial and error.
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Summary: Erroneous information and lack of depth in some subjects
Review: I bought this book, and found in several instances it was incorrect, or just plan lacked any depth. Example 1: Page 107 (3rd edition) talks about windows managers, and talks about CDE. Red hat has dropped CDE. Its not even on the Disk. but the book spends about 10 pages talking about it. Example 2: the discussion of INN is very very lacking. It also, gives steps on setting it up, but doesn't go into how to implement the steps (ooppps). example: "create a new user news and add the user to the news group...." (Excuse me, but I bought this book, because I don't KNOW how do do these things). I will be returning the book and buying a different one. Buyer Be ware!, Probably should have looked to WROX professional series for answers....
Rating:
Summary: good for average users, bad for experienced
Review: a great book for the beginning user who wants to become an average, but bad for experienced users. No info on proxy servers, very little info on the most used web server Apache, no info on kernel programming, NOTHING about connecting to novell networks and NT networks (NETBeui). But it has an easy way of reading (start from the beginning) and it gives you those little details about functions who might become handy in the year 2350. By all means, this is not a bad book!
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