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Summary: A Culinary Masterpiece!
Review: "More Stuff, Less Fluff" is the slogan for No Starch Press and nicely sums up this excellent reference guide. It's tersely written and straight to the point with a metric tonne of helpful tips on nearly every aspect of the Linux operating system. Perfect for the novice who wants to dive head-first into Linux and become productive fast, although experienced users looking for more esoteric material should look eleswhere. The Linux Cookbook by Michael Stutz is on par with O'Reilly's Running Linux for overall readability and usefullness, and I can give no higher compliment than that.
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Summary: Outstanding Linux book!
Review: * * * * *This book may have had Debian as its base, but, this book can easily be used with any distribution. I have been using Linux for six years now, and I was able to learn commands that I didn't know even existed. Don't pay any attention to those who will give this book only three stars simply because they didn't read the books discription and bought the wrong book. This one is a real winner. I antipipate that this book will be in my library for some time to come because most of the books contents go over stuff that will most likely not change very much over time. * * * * *
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Summary: Outstanding Linux book!
Review: * * * * * This book may have had Debian as its base, but, this book can easily be used with any distribution. I have been using Linux for six years now, and I was able to learn commands that I didn't know even existed. Don't pay any attention to those who will give this book only three stars simply because they didn't read the books discription and bought the wrong book. This one is a real winner. I antipipate that this book will be in my library for some time to come because most of the books contents go over stuff that will most likely not change very much over time. * * * * *
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Summary: Just the ingredents this Linux chef needed.
Review: Even though this book is written over the keyboard of a Debian system. There is a lot of good usable command line utilities and programs that would be usefull on, I can only imagine, any distribution. This book has, so far, been actually fun book to go through, and I have learned a lot of commands and other things that I didn't know existed before. This is really a great book for the linux user who is ready to make the step from the "newby" stage to the intermediate stage, and beyond. I am glad I got bought this book.!!!!!!!! .
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Summary: A lil geeky maybe...
Review: I had been using Linux for around two years when I came across this book. I was surprised there was so much more to know about Linux. After casually glancing through its pages I realised this was a treasure chest. If you are the shell user type, you will definitely enjoy this book. If you are GUI user, you will start appreciating the shell.There are easier ways to do what you have been doing and this book will show you how to do those things.
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Summary: A nice resource for using Linux
Review: I liked this book. It has a lot of detailed information on how to do common (and not so common) tasks in Linux. The reason I knocked off a star in my rating is that I thought the book would have been better if it stuck with standard Linux commands instead of focusing on commands that are not normally available. For example, one thing that I have done in the past, but can never remember how to do is changing the file extension of multiple files with one command. This book tells you to do it with the chcase command. This is not a Linux command, but a little utility that someone wrote that I guess you can download from somewhere. What I would rather have is an explaination of how to do this manually.
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Summary: Great Guide To Open Source!
Review: I use this book all the time at work where we are
using Linux more and more. This was first just for
Systems but now I am using Linux for my own productivity,
writing reports and printing. I love the power of the
commands and it's all in this book! I do take exception
to the reader below who wanted to change case of file
names "manually" - this person should reread the book's
intro as all Open Source software is out on the Internet
made by different people, this is what makes it so powerful.
But that is the joy of this book. It's format and coverage
makes it fill a gap that has been sorely needed in the
Open Source / Free Software community.
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Summary: Best buy
Review: If I only had the choice of one Linux book this would be it..
It is ideal for new users and wizards....Ideal bedside book too..
Buy two copies !!
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Summary: Not really a cookbook
Review: If you are used to the O'Reilly cookbook formula you won't find that here. This is really and end-to-end user level walkthrough of Linux from the shell through the operating system and into applications. It's complete, but I found the text a little terse and stiff. Illustrations are sparse and underused.
This book covers the shell, X windows, text editing, text manipulation, file system commands, network access, configuration and other common Linux areas of interest. It has a wide range of coverage, which means that even though the book is quite thick the time spent on any one topic is fairly light. One exception is text manipulation, which is covered in significant depth.
This book is definitely worth the look, but you should also consider O'Reilly's "Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora".
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Summary: Cookbook approach to working with Linux
Review: Let me start with what this book is and is not. There is nothing on how to install, troubleshoot, or administer Linux and it is not supposed to have that information. This is a cookbook and is designed to be a resource when you have a specific goal in mind and want to know how to get there. The first several chapters focus on the very basic Linux information that everyone working in the operating system should know. This includes such common items as how to determine what processes are running and how to determine who you are logged in as. Of course anyone with even a minimum of Linux experience knows this stuff. For the more experienced Linux users the later chapters deal are a real treasure. It includes things like viewing and editing images, PostScript, working with sound, and cross-platform conversions. The recipe style layout really works well. Like a list of ingredients the author lists the program to be run, package manager name for the installation package, and the home page where the package can be found. This is one of the really nice features of the book. If you are looking for how to accomplish a specific task you can look it up, see if there is a program to accomplish it, locate and install the program if necessary, and follow through the specific directions to achieve your desired result. The Linux Cookbook, 2nd Edition is very highly recommended for the new Linux user, and recommended as a desk reference to keep available for the more experienced user who may just need to know how to convert that mp3 file to another format and burn the result to a CD.
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