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Summary: SE Using Linux, Fourth Edition, Better than ever!
Review: The fourth edition hits the stands just as main stream media recognize what a force Linux has become in corporate america. With the help of Steve Burnett, Que, and the thousands of readers who have provided feedback on the first 3 editions, we have created a great resource for those interested in learning what Linux is and how to use it . Kudos to Linus and the rest of the Linux development community for greating and supporting such a great OS environment. thanks to all!
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Summary: Don't buy it!
Review: This book is rubbish. Please do NOT buy it! If I had to rewrite the book, it would have been 40 pages instead of 900! The CD-ROM's that come with the book are rubbish to. You're better off buying Red Hat Linux at your local computer shop.
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Summary: Don't buy it!
Review: This book is rubbish. Please do NOT buy it! If I had to rewrite the book, it would have been 40 pages instead of 900! The CD-ROM's that come with the book are rubbish to. You're better off buying Red Hat Linux at your local computer shop.
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Summary: Good Book but problem with CD
Review: This book is very good in the sense that it covers almost everything from how to use Linux effectively (play games, use office suite, play audio CD, etc) to system administration tasks. Good price for such a complete book. The problem is that I can not run the CD from my CD ROM drive. Whenever I run the setup.exe, my CD ROM just tried to read it, but then it stop responding. I don't know why this happen but I cleaned my CD ROM drive already and the problem still exists. So far I never had problem with my CD ROM. I just bought this CD-RW 1 week ago. Must be problem with this CD software.
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Summary: I have found this book thoroughly useful.
Review: This book was really a help. I had installed and configured a few different Linux systems, but always had trouble with getting the network card to work, and configuring XFree86. I found the book easy to read and very helpful with the problems I had. I now have a very stable Linux installation!
I also reccomend O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell for a thorough command and shell reference.
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Summary: Zero Info
Review: This book was written by someone installing a distro and writing down notes. There's absolutely no info in here. If you get stuck then tough. There are many better books for beginners out there.
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Summary: Not thorough, nor helpful
Review: This books is not as helpful as I expected at all. The structure looks very good, but when I read it, I found none of the topic was explained clearly and thoroughly. For example, adding a user, it only mentioned command adduser without indicating which file that really recorded the user information. Actually, when I installed Linux and set up configuration, I have to look for other help, like Linux online help. This book just added my confusion.
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Summary: Very good book
Review: This is a VERY good book, it covers all versions of linux, but it mainly focuses on Red Hat Linux and OpenLinux, although I was suprised that it didn't come with Slackware linux as it was in the previous edition. You could tell that it wasn't edited extremely well, as it still contains sections which mention the "Slackware" CD that comes with it. I wasn't too disappionted about that there wasn't any mention of 5.2. Ihe CD's contain all the RPMS and the Source RPMS for Redhat linux which I found very useful. The installation process is simplified, even though I had already installed it when I read. I think it's a bit more expensive at £37.49 UK Pounds then it should be and it should contain Slackware, but apart from that it is a flawless book.Overall: Que made a book which covers mainly two versions of linux. I can't wait until next edition, when I hope it will contain Slackware.
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Summary: Tons of information and explanations.
Review: This is a very useful book crippled by a weak index, as are almost all the computer books I own. I am a big fan of books published by this publisher because they seem to me to be the most useful of all the computer help books. But would someone please explain to me why computer books have such weak indexes? It totally baffles me. Anyway, if you need a good book to help you with Caldera Open Linux, this is the best.
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Summary: Tons of information and explanations.
Review: This is a very useful book crippled by a weak index, as are almost all the computer books I own. I am a big fan of books published by this publisher because they seem to me to be the most useful of all the computer help books. But would someone please explain to me why computer books have such weak indexes? It totally baffles me. Anyway, if you need a good book to help you with Caldera Open Linux, this is the best.
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