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Summary: This is the one people, this one works!!!
Review: This is the one my friends I swear it. I took this exam three times folks three. First I used the Sybex, and Exam Cram Books for this exam study for about 2 months. I was very confident and took the test. I got a rude awakening and thought maybe I needed a little more practice on my commands. Two weeks later went and took the test again and failed. Then I thought to myself something is not right. I thought that maybe I need some other study material. Thats when I purchased this book and everything started to click. Especially with the hands on projects that helped even more and reinforced what I had learned. Then people on March 7 of this year I became Linux+ Certified. I am telling once again this is the book.
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Summary: Linux+ Bible
Review: This is the second "Bible" book I have read by Trevor Kay. The first one was the Server+ Certification Bible. Trevor has a unique writing style that really helps you digest each exam topic without overwhelming you. The Linux+ Bible walks you through each step of becoming a Linux guru. I especially like the troubleshooting section, it came in handy not just for the exam but on the job. I thought this book was great at helping me pass the exam and I recommend it to anyone studying for the Linux+ exam.
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Summary: broad, but none too deep
Review: Trevor Kay's work with the Server+ Bible was a primary reason for my reading through the Linux+ Bible though the book fell short of my expectations. Numerous syntax errors abound and you must be careful when going through the examples in the book. However, this book continues his easy-going writing style which made the reading seem very quick. Having taken the exam recently (and passing!), you really do need a solid understanding with the command line (switches, switches, switches!), system administration/management and troubleshooting along with hardware fundamentals. For the most part, this book starts it all off for you, but you will likely need other resources to finish off the Linux+. Do not be lulled, the end of chapter questions, practice test and CD-ROM have way too many easy questions which are not indicative of the Linux+ exam.
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Summary: You will pass
Review: Very comprehensive guide to the Linux+ exam. You will definitely pass, especially if you have even the slightest previous Linux experience. Of course its not perfect, but I haven't found any one exam book that covers the material perfectly.
Rating: 
Summary: disappointing, and possibly misleading
Review: We bought three copies of this book for a study group. Not only
does it have lots of typographical errors, by Chapter 13 I had
decided that I did not trust the author's judgment, either about
Linux in general nor about the CompTIA objectives. Furthermore, I just don't think the book is well organized. To be specific: Typos:
For example, the periods in commands like "cd .." got messed up. (See p. 299: this is only one of several such problems.) I
don't remember all of the typos, but there were many. Sloppiness:
The author talks about about "getty" and "init"
(p. 413), when "mingetty" is used in the examples (p. 217, 332). Factual errors:
The author's explanation on p. 139 that you save 3072 bytes per file saved
(presumably 4096 - 1024), makes no sense to me, at least not for ext2fs. How can the author say the following? "The /etc/inittab file will control the
TERM environment, so be familiar with the location and format of the file."
(p. 277). The example file /etc/inittab has no reference to TERM, so at least superficially this doesn't make sense.
Further research indicates to me that TERM for the mingetty's
in the example is set by the kernel, but even if that is not
the case, I just don't see how it has anything to do with
the author's sample inittab. Errors in judgment with regard to CompTIA objectives:
He doesn't mention at all the "timer" mentioned in the CompTIA
Linux+ Objective 5.6 (in Chapter 13). I don't know what in the world
CompTIA is talking about. The author should have said something about it. Help with less obvious matters like this is what I had hoped for when I bought this book. For another problem having to do with Objective 5.6 from Chapter 13, his explanation of "core services" is,
at best, poorly thought out. My system, at least, will continue to
run when all of the programs he lists as core services have been killed.
That fact contradicts his explanations. Organization:
The explanations of basic commands like "ls" and "rm" are in
Chapter 9 (p. 300). This comes well after chapters about
configuring X-windows (Chapter 6) and configuring networking
(Chapter 7), and so on. The easier, more basic stuff is
presented after the harder, more advanced topics.
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