A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8

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Summary: Look CLOSELY at content: sadly, I found it mostly worthless!
Review: I loved his Solaris PG; it was one of the very best Solaris books.
However, I was shocked and very disappointed to see the contents of this book is mostly shell, Xwindows (etc), and other mundane commands.
Compare this to other Linux books that cover broader and deeper Linux topics. I unfortunately feel many other books offer a much more practical, useful value.
So, look closely and think carefully before buying this book.
(Based on the 1st glowing review, Maybe my impression doesn't apply to everyone. And I'm sorry to feel so totally negative about this book because Sobell's other books are so great.)

Rating:
Summary: It does not look like a practical guide
Review: I read half of the book, but I realized that it is NOT really a practical guide as he titled, rather boring textbook. He spent a lot of space as describing the topics with many tables, and it made me boring to read this book continuously. What is a practical guide? It might be different from a reader to a reader, but what I am thinking is that he should have provided more practical examples instead of providing tables of describing menus or options. We can know them by reading manuals or man command.
If you are a beginner and are looking for a practical book, then you need to be careful to choose this book.

Rating:
Summary: Remarkable
Review: Thank you (to the author) very much because of your new book "Practical Guide To Red Hat Linux 8", my path of migrating from Windows to GNU/Linux (as you (the author) mentioned, GNU/Linux instead of Linux) has become a far less bumpy ride. I've bought two copies of the book, one left in office and another at home (the big tome is not easy to carry around and I'm afraid it will fall apart).