Linux: The Complete Reference

Rating:
Summary: Good extensive and an all round book about Linux.
Review: As a newbie, I needed a little supplement to the various (excelent) HOWTO's for Linux, just so I had one central place to look up and find descriptions and gain an overview. For this purpose, the book is wonderful. There might be a little bit too many screendumps and the command line argument tables take up a fair ammount of pages too, but it IS a reference book and that still leaves about 600-700 pages or so, to pure text documentation. Aside from the fact, that the book is gigantic (1200 pages and solid as a brick) to carry in my schoolbag to and from school, I love this book.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent coverage
Review: Execelent book on linux. Solid integration of Gnome and KDE throughout the entire book. Strong organization and a lot of helpful Internet links, compliments online resources. Kept answering my questions.

Rating:
Summary: Great Detail, well organized
Review: If you've been interested in using Linux for desktop applications and don't know where to start, this is a great place to do just that. Covers nearly every topic imaginable, comes with 2 different Linux distributions (versions), and has a relatively low price for a book of this size. Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: great for desktop Linux users
Review: If you've been interested in using Linux for desktop applications and don't know where to start, this is a great place to do just that. Covers nearly every topic imaginable, comes with 2 different Linux distributions (versions), and has a relatively low price for a book of this size. Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: do not waste your money
Review: the book contains virtually nothing that is not available free on the internet; and the internet is organized; the book has no significant table of contents and no significant index; the publisher and author should be ashamed of charging 31 dollars for a book that contains virtually nothing but HOWTO'S; other peoples work: HOWTO'S; yes, the same exactly as you can find on virtually any linux site on the internet; the HOWTO's are thrown together in total disarray; they are made useless since there is no organization and no way you can look up anything;

Rating:
Summary: Great Detail, well organized
Review: This an COmplete Ref. to Redhat Linux are the best I have found in a single book.

Rating:
Summary: Simply the best
Review: This book contains information not only about the client services, but also the servers as well. It is written in easy to understand language, yet it covers the basics, as well as the advanced linux commands, concepts, and configurations. What's even better is that it has 2 full version linux CDs(which has the server functions) included, so you don't have to spend more money on buying the operating system. If you are going to get only 1 book for linux then this is the one to get.

Rating:
Summary: Simply the best
Review: This book contains information not only about the client services, but also the servers as well. It is written in easy to understand language, yet it covers the basics, as well as the advanced linux commands, concepts, and configurations. What's even better is that it has 2 full version linux CDs(which has the server functions) included, so you don't have to spend more money on buying the operating system. If you are going to get only 1 book for linux then this is the one to get.

Rating:
Summary: Very complete!
Review: This book is chuck full of learning and reference material. Each chapter is independent. I like that you can select a chapter and understand it without needing to have read any others. This is a good book choice to learn Linux Administration. The subject matter goes deep enough in most topics that it is worthy of reference shelf space.

Rating:
Summary: PLEASE READ this book if your a LINUX wannabee.
Review: This book is very easily read and informative about the versions of Linux out there all the way to RH 7.1. I recommend it strongly simply because its the best Linux book out there. It helped me configure a Linux server when I knew nothing about Linux when I started this book.