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Summary: Still has a few jewels left, but extremely tarnished
Review: I would say that sales of this book should be left to the stores dealing in obsolete computer merchandise. Most (if not all) of the applications mentioned in this book are obsolete, having been upgraded to the point where a great deal of the advice given is no longer valid.This is not, however, to say that this book would only be useful as a boat anchor. It still has a good deal of useful information in it, and can still be quite helpful, ... My only burning question is, where ... is the 8th edition? My comment to that person who only gave it one star would be; Sure, it's the HOW TO pages. All neatly bound and printed. Do YOU want to sit down and print out all that ...? I have better things to do, and I, for one, prefer hard copy. Easier to read.
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Summary: pretty big
Review: If you miss all your "not there anymore" How-TO's from the TLDP .... this one has them all (1997 and prior) so ... i beleive the cost of the printer INK is far more costly than the price than the 2000 pages this provides ..... even if you don't need it all .... Sometimes its better to get away from the box to read the info .... :-)
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Summary: pretty big
Review: If you miss all your "not there anymore" How-TO's from the TLDP .... this one has them all (1997 and prior) so ... i beleive the cost of the printer INK is far more costly than the price than the 2000 pages this provides ..... even if you don't need it all .... Sometimes its better to get away from the box to read the info .... :-)
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Summary: A waste of trees
Review: The book contains a complete walkthroug of the installation and a lot of howto's. It has all the answers.
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Summary: The Book With All The Answers
Review: The book contains a complete walkthroug of the installation and a lot of howto's. It has all the answers.
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Summary: An excellent buy!
Review: This book has many useful articles in it and will be useful to any linux users at any ability. It includes a lot of things that other books leave out like gcc and teTEX. This book also includes an excellent discussion of how the linux file system works --essential if you want to work with files effectively. The Network administration section is excellent as is the section on being a SysAdmin. The book would be helped by a better organized table of contents and perhaps by grouping similar HOWTO's together. As it happens, it looks like Mr. Purcell has glombed a bunch of stuff together and then slapped together a quick index and table of contents and then sent it off to Walnut Creek. Also, the pages are too thin. I think I am going to tear the book when I turn a page. Havoing said that, this will be a cherished possession for many years and I will read it often.
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Summary: Wonderfull summary of HOWTO's
Review: This book is the summum for new linux users, it summarises all important HOWTO's, so you never need to print them yourself. Inside is also the NETADMIN GUIDE and the SYSADMIN GUIDE. This book got me started and keeps me going.
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Summary: A must-have book
Review: This books is a collection of How-to's put into book form. Although, you can get all the Howto's from the Linux Documentation Project, this book is still indispensible. Contains most (if not all) of the How-To, plus the Network Administrator Guide, and System Administrator's Guide.
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Summary: Indispensable Linux reference
Review: This Walnut Creek CDROM Books' "Linux, the Complete Reference" is a complete printed edition of all the Linux HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs that are accumulated over the years by contributions of LDP volunteers on the internet. This is the single volume that I look up whenever I have questions about Linux, and check out before going out to post a help-me message on netnews. While none of the articles are written newly for this book (they all exist and available for free on the net), the value of this book is in that it contains all of them in a single paper volume as a reference book. Since many How-to-Linux type books on the market are second-hand works derived from these LDP documents (exceptions are "Running Linux" and few others), why not look up this original stuff and be done with it? Highly recommended. And don't confuse this one with other similar titles.
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Summary: A waste of trees
Review: What a dissapointment - this book is just a collection of the Linux Documentation Project's "how-to's." Back that up with a horrible index (a measly 7 page-index covers 2000 pages of text), and these guys get an F for effort. The installation-guide wasn't any help for me because I bought a specific guide for that. What I needed was a comprehensive and well indexed reference.
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