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Summary: Beware of the tricky nanny!
Review: This book is meant to literally take your hand so you can be walked from Gates to Tornvals with no pain, but in the end you have to go RTFM, just because the book is plenty of errata and falls into tricky omissions. You can have a damn hard time installing the system if anything does not go just like the book says. And chances are it won't. So if you expect to turn this half-caring guide into Your Linux Nanny, be prepared to fall under some Murphy's laws. Besides, this is only a tiny taste of penguin's meat. I wonder if it would just have been swell to start with O'Reilly's Running Linux.
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Summary: Don't buy unless you want an expensive, basic install guide
Review: This book is no different from RedHat installation manuals/information that can be read on the web for free. Horrid as a reference manual. Buy 'Running Linux' instead. ISBN 156592469X. Regret that I ever bought this book. In addition it is old (RedHat 7.2 and not 8.0).
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Summary: Good intro to Linux...
Review: This book was a 4 star book just 4 months ago. Today, it is quickly slipping into the realm of dinosaurs as a function of its aging CDs, which feature Red Hat Linux v7.2. If you are interested in exploring Linux, this is one of the lesser-expensive ways to get started, and RHL 7.2 is at least a viable starting point for most newbies.I used the book a couple of times to try to figure out something specific to Linux, but the content is little more than a command summary similar to what the man pages offer and a basic installation and configuration guide. At the cover price as sold by Amazon, you can not beat this for a gift of Linux or other way of getting your hands on CDs...without downloading the files for "free."
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Summary: Good intro to Linux...
Review: This book was a 4 star book just 4 months ago. Today, it is quickly slipping into the realm of dinosaurs as a function of its aging CDs, which feature Red Hat Linux v7.2. If you are interested in exploring Linux, this is one of the lesser-expensive ways to get started, and RHL 7.2 is at least a viable starting point for most newbies. I used the book a couple of times to try to figure out something specific to Linux, but the content is little more than a command summary similar to what the man pages offer and a basic installation and configuration guide. At the cover price as sold by Amazon, you can not beat this for a gift of Linux or other way of getting your hands on CDs...without downloading the files for "free."
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Summary: Learning Red Hat Linux
Review: This book's target audience is obviously the Linux newbie, not just Red Hat newbies. For someone experienced in using Linux, this probably is not a book you would want to purchase. The book does, however, go into some decent newbie level tutorials. What I found to be less desirable was the amount of reliance this book had on linuxconf which, as an experienced Linux user, I prefer not to use. Best I can tell, linuxconf is generally not the admin tool of choice. The book did go into other options, but not to the extent that I had hoped.
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Summary: Need to read this book first, if you are a windows user.
Review: This is a great book for people who is currently using Microsoft Windows and wants to venture to RH OS. It has all neccessary informations to have your RH OS install and running. I would have give this book a 5 star, but for RH book, it just mentioning the word Microsoft to much.
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Summary: Installation guide not working
Review: this is one of those books that is excellent for getting your toes wet. It reminds me of my granddad teaching me how to swim. He threw me in the water and made sure I didn't drown. That's about how this book is. Not so much info that it drowns you and a few pointers. not good for people allready familiar with Linux though. Strictly a beginners book
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Summary: pretty good foot wetter
Review: this is one of those books that is excellent for getting your toes wet. It reminds me of my granddad teaching me how to swim. He threw me in the water and made sure I didn't drown. That's about how this book is. Not so much info that it drowns you and a few pointers. not good for people allready familiar with Linux though. Strictly a beginners book
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Summary: Wonderful book for Newbies using RH 7.2 on a Desktop!
Review: This is the third book about Linux that I've purchased. I'm very glad that I purchased this book! I'd installed Red Hat Linux 7.2, on 2 of the boxes on our home LAN, to dual boot with MS Windows 98 Second Edition. Until now, our use of Linux has been minimal. My wife boots into Linux to play games in KDE and I use the Konqueror web browser. This book will make it possible for me to know what I'm doing with Red Hat Linux 7.2 and eventually discontinue the use of MS Windows. There are many illustrations in the book, which show what the reader will see on their CRT screen and the text explains what to do. The book explains, for example, how to configure the SAMBA server, which will enable us to have File & Printer Sharing, between Linux and Windows boxes. The majority of the book, probably 90%, is very easy reading. There are two chapters about the BASH shell. The first is easy to read and the last chapter in the book, "Advanced Shell Usage and Shell Scripts", is harder to read, but both chapters contain data that's very important to the reader, as do the appendixes. I found one error in the book. On page 100, the author says, "you must be logged in as ROOT to shut down your system". Probably that is true for the "Server" installation, which would be appropriate and necessary, but it is NOT true for the "Workstation" installations which I've done, or the one "Custom" installation I've done. Users on our systems can shut down the system, without knowing the ROOT password. I believe if you want a book that will help you install and use Red Hat Linux 7.2 on a Desktop, this book is an excellent investment. It explains how to do many things that I wanted to do. The other books I'd purchased are: "Linux for Dummies, 3rd edition". It came with CD-ROMs for Red Hat Linux 7.0 and when I tried Red Hat, I discovered that I liked it better than Mandrake. I'd purchased the boxed set for Mandrake Linux before that! "Running Linux, 3rd edition" is a super book, which came highly recommended to me, by a man in Red Hat Technical Support. It's a classic, but tough reading for a Newbie. I've read the first 488 pages, twice.
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Summary: Comes with 6.2 CD
Review: To answer below reviewer Xavier Velasco H., question " I wonder if it would just have been swell to start with O'Reilly's Running Linux." It says on page 5 of Learning Red Hat Linux " This book will take you through the basics of setting up and using Linux. After you've mastered what this book offers, you should consult Running Linux, Third Edition by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Lar Kaufman (O'Reilly, 1999), a more advanced book that focuses on setting up and using Linux servers." I was hoping Learning Red Hat Linux would of been more detailed in it's reasons for doing and options. More on the Linuux ext2 file system, examples and how-tos on setting up a dual/triple boot system. More answers to WHY. More explanation on the various setup screen options and LILO. It was a heck of lot better than this other Linux book I got 2 yr ago, Linux Encycloopedia.
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