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Summary: Best Linux Book Yet
Review: As Linux keeps getting better and better, so does the books that cover it. The Red Hat Linux Bible 7.3 has so far helped setup my system as router with ip forwarding, and demand dialing. Next I will work on setting up a proxy services for the rest of my LAN. A little more space could be spent on hand editing various scripts, as well as, on what the utilities are doing the config scripts for educational purposes. It is so far very clear cut and straight to the point. Thanks Chris Negus. (Now there needs to be a book like this on the new Debian 3.0)
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Summary: OK for a reference
Review: I found this book to be fairly decent for a reference, if you are only looking to perform tasks through a gui interface. Very light on command line, which is the workhorse of Linux. By far, O'Reilly is the best source for Linux/Unix books.
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Summary: OK for a reference
Review: I found this book to be fairly decent for a reference, if you are only looking to perform tasks through a gui interface. Very light on command line, which is the workhorse of Linux. By far, O'Reilly is the best source for Linux/Unix books.
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Summary: RedHat Linux 7.3 Bible
Review: I have the Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible and this book is full of errors. It has very shallow information and has caused me much grief
in my pursuit to learn Linux. This book is totally useless, today I had to look at the credits in the front of the book and see the names of the morons who contributed to this books publication. Each
project I started using this as research had serious problems and flawed solutions. Incredible 1040 pages and a big fat zero....
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Summary: Excellent book for novice and experienced users!
Review: I perused this book at the local borders book store and was immediately attracted to the style of writing. Chris Negus does a marvelous job of explaining all the intricate details in a very straightforward fashion. The technical stuff related to installation and setting up your servers is first rate and works in ALL of the instances. The book is voluminous and costs 50 bucks, but believe me when I say that this book is worth every cent you paid for it and more. Just the chapters on installation, GNOME and KDE are worth the money you will pay for it. Add to it, the chaps on Apache, FTP and Telnet, this is one great book...as I said, for the novice and experienced user alike. Recommended highly. Oh, BTW, I have my own personal copy now and I enjoy it a lot!! p
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Summary: Still looking.
Review: I'm still looking for the right book. I've read quite a few of these Linux books looking for something that I can recommend to people who are new to Linux but, not new to computing. People who are knoledgeable but not too familiar with Linux. To be fair, this book covers an enormous subject. It tries to cover a tremendous amount of material in 1000 pages. However, when a book claims to be The Bible on a subject and "100% Comprehensive", one has high expectations. The biggest problem with this book is that it is hard to read. It simply doesn't flow well and the topics are not ordered in a sensible manner. For example, Chapter 2 discusses installing Red Hat for the first time. This is fine and is certainly detailed enough however, the chapter ends with a downright flippant discussion on recompiling the Linux kernel.(If you don't know, this is a complex and dangerous operation in Linux and should not be attempted until a fair bit of familiarity with Linux has been developed.) This discussion should have been toward the end of the book and should have been far more detailed or, better yet it should have been left out completely. Although this is an extreme example, there are numerous other instances in the book where the arrangement of the material presented is not good. Some of the material covered is in good detail. However, some is completely inadequate. For example a full chapter is devoted to Sendmail and rightly so, Sendmail could easily take up the whole book. But, after touting the advantages of Postfix, new to Red Hat 7.3, as a Sendmail replacement, the book gives a single page on Postfix and advises to look in the Postfix documentation for further information. Why mention it, if you aren't going to discuss it? Contrary to how it may seem from this review, this book is NOT bad. This book is a good reference book to have on the shelf if you are somewhat familiar with Linux and you need to implement a particular service quickly. In most cases The book gives you enough information to quickly install and configure a particular service such as Apache or Sendmail or Samba, etc. Now then, the problem is whose review do you use? What is the reviewer's background? How knowledgeable are they, and how does their skill set compare to your's. Hopefully the following will help you decide. I have 10 years experience as a network engineer and hold the following certifications: CNE, MCSE, CCNP, CCA, CUE, ASE, NNCSE, NNCDE and more. I am not new to Linux but I am far from expert on this broad subject.
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Summary: Still looking.
Review: I've been messing with this book for a while and have three main points to share. First, the index is very skimpy. That may not sound like much, but it always disappoints me, and with a book of over 1000 pages, it's crucial for finding key information. Second, the book provides very little assistance when encountering difficulty installing the OS. And third, and most painful, the installation CDs were faulty (at least in my copy). If I try to install anything but the minimal of systems, CD #2 starts hissing and coughing. The installer says it can't read the disk, and everything quits. I gave this 2 stars rather than one because my first two points are not critical, and the third is most likely an issue with my particular copy, not the book as a whole.
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Summary: not the greatest
Review: I've been messing with this book for a while and have three main points to share. First, the index is very skimpy. That may not sound like much, but it always disappoints me, and with a book of over 1000 pages, it's crucial for finding key information. Second, the book provides very little assistance when encountering difficulty installing the OS. And third, and most painful, the installation CDs were faulty (at least in my copy). If I try to install anything but the minimal of systems, CD #2 starts hissing and coughing. The installer says it can't read the disk, and everything quits. I gave this 2 stars rather than one because my first two points are not critical, and the third is most likely an issue with my particular copy, not the book as a whole.
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Summary: Best Price
Review: If your going to Fairleigh Dickinson University and taking up Network Security Professional you will need this Book the price is Great
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Summary: Decent
Review: Linux 8 and 9 have come out since I got about a third into this book, so I feel left out.
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