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Summary: An Excellent book
Review: A MUST have for any Linux user and administrator. Everybody and not just administrators, should read this book, which tells you what all you can do with Linux (from installation, dual boot with other stupid OS'es like Windows, networking, back up, disk management, security, firewall and a lot more). I feel the authors have done a great job explaining everything you need to know about Linux use/administration. I really appreciate the humorous touch, which makes reading the book more interesting. Infact, I keep the book by my bedside. I sincerely wish that this book becomes ubiquitous (making it cheaper, ideally FREE) and EVERYBODY has a copy of it.
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Summary: A Fountain of Linux Knowledge.
Review: As a System Administrator with over 6 years of UNIX and 3 years of Linux experience I was immediately impressed with the wealth of information and references I was unaware of. These folks are well connected in the Unix/Linux community and point the reader in the right direction to get specialized information reguarding Linux. However most of what you need to administrate Linux is contained right within their book. This is not a dry tomb. I found it to be
entertaining as well as informative. This is a must have for every Linux SysAdmin.
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: For those who need more than simply knowing how to add a new user via the GUI.Covers the whole gamut of Linux Admin. A lot of quality work has gone into this book, and the result shows. Everything you could possibly want to do is covered, whether it be syslog daemon config, mail server config, routing, and there are even diagrams on Serial pin-outs!! "Well done" to the authors. A must have in any admins library.
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Summary: In-depth, concise, interesting.
Review: Hands down, the best book I've read on Linux System Administration. Nemeth et al. explain everything you need to understand Linux from the ground up. They don't just tell you things, they explain WHY it is that way and things relating to it. They give a great list of references at the end of each chapter and sometimes RFCs relating to it. Though not for the absolute beginniner, anyone with semi-rudamentary knowledge of Linux (if you know what kernel modules, bash, and init are) you will keep this handy reference and bedtime read by your side at all times. One thing that is not included is the X Windowing System. Tough unnessecary for a server configuration, that is one aspect of Linux I would love to have explained with the clarity and voice of this book. Aside from that, this book is great!
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Summary: Excellent - Exactly what I was after
Review: I found this book extremely easy and interesting to read, I find it hard to sit down and just read cover-cover a techinical book, but not so with this one. This book does not concentrate soley on basic "how to run a program", "how to add a user", but covers a wide range of topics, including details of routing/networking/DNS/etc. Every so often I do feel it lacks a little in examples, and could use a bit more in terms of sample of configurations etc. However, it did not resort to pages of code listings as other titles can tend do. On the whole, highly recommended.
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: I frequently refer to this book and have found it very useful and informative on just about every subject that is Linux. I would have given it 5 stars except that the index of the book is broken. I use the index of reference books, like all other admins, to quickly find the page of the subject for that I am looking. The page numbers that are referenced in the index are incorrect. This is VERY frustrating! This book shouldn't be the only Linux book on your shelf, but I do recommend having it.
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Summary: make clean; make index correct
Review: I frequently refer to this book and have found it very useful and informative on just about every subject that is Linux. I would have given it 5 stars except that the index of the book is broken. I use the index of reference books, like all other admins, to quickly find the page of the subject for that I am looking. The page numbers that are referenced in the index are incorrect. This is VERY frustrating! This book shouldn't be the only Linux book on your shelf, but I do recommend having it.
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Summary: Nemeth et al shine again!
Review: I have owned several editions of Nemeth's 'UNIX System Administration Handbook' (USAH) and I have always been highly impressed by the quality of writing and instruction. In that book, Nemeth et al brilliantly (and humorously) packed material into 853 pages where other lesser authors (J. Winsor comes to mind) have needed several (dry) volumes. Most Unix System Administration books merely regurgitate or re-word 'man' pages and are entirely useless.
So, being as familiar as I am with their past performances, I did not hesitate to buy this their latest work from Amazon. Understand that there are a lot of similarities between Unix and Linux and as such, this book doesn't really differ that much from USAH. There is still the same highly informative prose, the same humorous approach to instructing via the written word. I think this is an attempt by the authors to capitalize on the popularity of the Linux Operating System and in any other author, this would be gauche. Not so with Nemeth and her team of writers. Here, they have again done an extra-ordinary job of instructing both experienced and novice sysadmins in the fine art and science of being that most noble of professions: a Unix/Linux System Administrator.
Good job!
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Summary: for admins, not your mom
Review: I picked up this book because I have used the 2nd and 3rd editions of UNIX Administration Handbook for years. This book is easy to read and provides some entertainment with the authors' insight into Linux administration. As with it's brother the UAH, this book follows the same format but IS updated to reflect the Linux specifics. I picked it up also because it covers RH 7.2 and the UAH only covered 6.2. This book is a must for people who admin linux servers for large corporations, small businesses, or simply are running their own mail/dns/web server from their DSL connection at home.
If you are looking for a book that gets you setup on KDE or GNOME, this is not the book. If you want to learn and use the power of a networked Linux server, this is for you.
I have worked with UNIX for 6 years, Linux for 5 and recommend this book to anyone who will admin it.
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Summary: I don't like it much
Review: I see all nine readers rate this book five stars, may be they are used to books written in such style, or this is similar in structure with other books they are familar with.
I found it is useful. It is a bit old, as Redhat Linux now is v8.1 rather than 7.2, at least the installation part has much difference. I found other info like the booting sequence, or direct copy of 1st 512B of Linux boot sector to allow Linux bootable from a Win2K boot menu, these info are not in this book.
When I tried to set up NIS or network in Redhat V8, they can be done much easier than decribed steps in this book - I know many Unix admin may like the console mode or direct editing style anyway.
The main thing I don't like this book, or many other such books in similar style, is that the useful info are hidden in pages of undirect or less technical statements. At least 50% of the statements are not useful for me. May be the author like to use a chat style of writting, may be mnay of readers like it and feel more relax in reading, but I just want clearly strcutured, easy indexed, technical step by step book.
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