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Summary: An Example of Modern Education Failure
Review: Instead of the attractive title "Lunix Administration Handbook," this book should be renamed as "History of the Computer Industry" becasue so much ink and paper are wasted talking about the history of computer industry and the evolution of the hardware used with Linux. To IT professionals, those old storeis have been told thousands of times. They simply do not want to hear the same old stuff again. On-line IT professionals are eager to learn how Linux interfaces are accessed and what commands are used to fulfill what kinds of configurations. They want to know how to cook a quality Fijita quickly, what ingredients and spices are used, and the basic temperature to control the cooking, instead of knowing the histories of Fijita, the history of Fijita cooking ware, and such useless things that cannot help them make a Fijita. This book seems to be written by a group of professors according to the style of language level. Now I understand why so MS graduates from Computer Sciences cannot find a job in the realistic world. I like young people to join our IT force. Recently I have interviewed a few of them. Yet none of them can fill up the positions we are offering and I need them urgently and desperately. Buy this book if you want to learn about the history of computer industry. Never buy it if you want to operate or network Linux systems. I have finished reading 50% of the book. I do not know if I have enough time to waste with the rest of the pages. The writing style and the sentence structures are beautiful, but I need a book that teaches me the Linux skills, not English skills.
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Summary: Another excellent book by our friends, Evi, Garth and Trent.
Review: Just got this book and opened it to the security chapter with the purple, Unix System Admin Handbook opened to the same chapter. The new Linux Admin Handbook follows the exact same, time-tested layout as the Unix book. Fans will feel right at home. However, it has lots of new info for Linux users. This is a great overview of the useful and important things you need to know. If you are new to Linux, I recommend this be your second book. Your first book should teach you how to install Linux and get your system up and running with an overview of all the basics. My two favorite things about this book is that it is very easy to read compared to other tech books and it gives you what you need very quickly without diving into a "rabbit hole" of impractical information. Thank you Evi, Garth and Trent.
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Summary: Best single book on linux available
Review: Over the past six months, I have configured three Linux machines for use in my home. While I have worked in Windows for years, these boxes were my first foray into the world of Linux. I had any number of questions, and encountered numerous problems along the way. I relied on various web resources, and purchased a number of books. This is the one resource I continually go back to for answers. If you are looking to buy one book about Linux, this is it. You could also consider O'Reilly's 'Running Linux' (more of a beginners guide) and 'Linux in a Nutshell' (a comprehensive reference book of Linux commands).
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Summary: So far it's been a waste of my money...
Review: Purchased this book around Xmas. Month and a half have passed and I have not been able to make one good use out of this book. In my opinion, this is a college text book for students who know knowing about Linux and want to learn Administrative concepts. It is a worthless book for hands-on administrators as well it is worthless for people like me who know enough and need to explore advance topics.
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Summary: Buy their Unix book instead
Review: The first edition of Unix System Administration was a classic. The updated versions have been split into a linux-only version and the original, pan-Unix treatment (including Linux--just not as many variants of Linux as this book covers). I bought the Linux one, but now I wish I had the updated pan-Unix book. The authors' strength is their knowledge of Unix fundamentals, not the (ever-changing) details of various Linux distros. You're better off learning from them how vendor Unices are different in major ways from each other and from Linux. Finally, the authors don't seem nearly as well informed about Linux as they do about the older Unices. While their older book's advice was bulletproof, in this one they miss some important information. The most serious example is their recommendation to use 'dump' for filesystem backups, when Linux Torvalds has explicitly announced that it's not safe to use. 90% of this book is the same as the Unix book, so it's not a loss either way, but I'd recommend you get your Linux info fresh off the net, or in some other book series that's updated more frequently.
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Summary: Linux made easy
Review: The Linux Administration Handbook (with its sister book Unix System Administration Handbook) is a great book for Linux/UNIX Administrators. I especially like the chapter on installing software. That was very helpful. Also the TCP/IP Networking chapter was helpful in solving a trace route problem. This is a great book for any administrator (even those who live on the dark side as Windows Administrators).
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Summary: Should cost more!
Review: The Linux Administration Handbook covers everything you could possibly want a handbook, or two, to cover about linux. If you have any desire to become a unix or linux system admin, GET THIS BOOK. Everything from booting to web hosting is covered in a completeness that obviously comes only from sheer experience. Note that the handbook does require you to have basic linux knowledge, so I'd pick up an decent intro book (Like UNIX for Dummies), also, it helps if you know a bit about cabling (for the serial port chapter) & c (for kernel programming). Some people have bashed the handbook for being a bore to read. Personally, if you want a boring book, check out Beginning Direct3D game programming!!! The jokes the authors tell in this book are actually funny. It's a CRIME that the handbook sells for [that price]. There's so much information in here it's unbelievable. Pick it up now while it's still cheap.
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Summary: simply awesome
Review: they've done it again - this book sits on my desk next to the
'purple bible' (unix system administration handbook, 3rd ed),
and like it, are excellent resources.
this is not a linux howto-book for beginners looking to get into
using linux. this book is meant for admins and power-users. it
is deep, detailed, and concise. this book will be one of the
most often used tools in your toolchest.
written by experts for real-world use, this book is worth twice
the price.
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Summary: Comprehensive coverage and nice drawings.
Review: This book seems like a very comprehensive book compressed into a manageable number of pages. I haven't delved too deeply into, but have already found it useful in solving a problem I was having getting WinXP/Linux to dual-boot. The edition I bought features tabbed pages, so finding a particular area of interest is easy. The writing style is inviting, although I did find some of the digressions, like the section entitled "System Administrator Syndrome", comical but unnecessary. This book was the most appealing of the books I thumbed through on the shelf at my local Barnes and Noble and I found helpful information in the first 20 pages. The pencil drawings are also very amusing. 5 stars!
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Summary: An Excellent Book for the Professional
Review: This is an excellent book on the subject; it is comprehensive and very well-written. The authors explain not only how things work, but in many cases they include historical background to explain why things work as they do. The book is clearly targeted at professional system administrators. There is little discussion of the GUI-based administration tools that come with most Linux distributions, nor are there enough examples to simply use the book as a cookbook. The book is primarily concerned with server rather than client administration; it won't tell you how to get your sound card to work or configure your desktop environment. For the amateur trying to configure a home Linux system, this may be the wrong book, but for a professional systems administrator, or a developer curious about the mysteries of system administration, this book is a five-star must-have.
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