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Summary: buy it if you want linux working in 30 minutes
Review: i'm an absolut nitwit to operating systems but with this book i got it up and running within nearly half an hour, including xwindos, several disks (scsi hd's, jazz) and networking (tcp, samba). the next day the webserver with programs.so, if you want to work with linux and not configuring zillion options, use this book.
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Summary: buy it
Review: i'm a totally nitwit to operating systems but with this book it took me nearly half an hour to get linux up and running from scratch, including windows and network.
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Summary: Good info, needs better organization
Review: This book has excellent info, but the organization is something that needs a little work. The chapters seem to not flow together and an appendix that lists maybe the tips would be nice. Also the book seems to be based on the X Windows environment. There should be more info on the non-X environment. Not really a beginners book. The index is really nice and well organized and is great for using this book as a reference. Good intro to linux programming too. A few of the links are dead, but when are they not. All in all a good book to have around. I prefer the orielly books as they are more specific to commands, but this book touches on many subjects while the orielly books are more specific. A good compliment to any linux users library.
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Summary: Very cursory overview, not a good information source
Review: I purchased this book as my first Linux book (I already had some basic Unix knowledge) and I was very unimpressed with the inadequate coverage of many topics. Basic topics were barely touched upon and even complex topics such as web server configuration and daemons were lacking in content and explanation. I strongly recommend using this book as reference only. There are many better books out there (trust me, I had to go buy a few)
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Summary: Good place to start
Review: I've plaed with linux a bit before I read this book and didn't really know what linux could do. After reading this book I could do all the basics of getting it up and running. I does get a little confusing twords the end when it talks about shell programming but I just skipped over those areas of the book. I highly reccomend getting this book if you want to start using linux then go and get other books detailing a certain part of Linux(ex. Samba)
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Summary: Poor documentation on installation
Review: Got this book thinking it would be a comprehensive guide to installing and using Linux. Using, possibly, but the two slim chapters on installation of Linux was pathetic. Almost no information on drive partitioning -- which caused me hours of problems, lost data, etc. -- and very little about hardware configuration (I have two IDE drives, and the second one is 7.6GB).
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Summary: They Ran a Cray-Level Open Source Super Computer...
Review: I bought this book because it was the only book reviewing my flavor of Linux, RedHat 5.2. It is comprehensive and expansive and includes the CDs you would get from Red Hat anyway, with the addition of the thorough book and everyday reference. I found an article that said the fastest benchmark of a povray rendering is the Cray supercomputer costing $5.5 Million until some scientists got together and linked a harem of Pentium II Xeons for $150,000 and matched matched the Cray's time. Of course, running the Red Hat they bought out of the back of a RH Unleashed Book. So, with all that and the tide of change, it is a prudent choice, if you ask me!
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Summary: confusing and bulky
Review: This book was the worst yet. Nothing I tried worked. I am very unhappy with this book. It has not helped me with linux at all. It gave step by step instructions that had no effect or just did not work. I think the author should have tried some of the steps on linux 5.2 and found out for themselves that it does not work.
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Summary: LINUX
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Review: I have a cat
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