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Summary: An average red hat book
Review: Overall, i am happy with this reference book. It have guided me through many networking in Red Hat. Unfortunately, the author did not take a further step in explaining many important configuration in networking. Many times i have been left limboing and figure things out myself. It does gave a good start and I am still using this book even in my Red Hat 9 now.EQ
Rating: 
Summary: A book that fits its title
Review: This book, unlike many of its kind, includes an in-depth look at the KDE Destop manager, tetex publishing and a lot of instructions on how to maintain your Red Hat system. Most books on Red Hat 6.x-7.x just help you with the installation and then leave you there. This book assumes that you wish to use your computer in a productive way and gives you the tools to do it. There is, however, no discussion of the Red Hat version of gnoRPM which is a very helpful guide to installing and ugrading any of the packages available to RedHat. Negus is mostly concerned with the nuts-and-bolts of command line interaction with the system. This is good if you really want to learn as you go. The size of the book makes it very heavy, but it is worth every penny and will probably become one of your best Red Hat books for years to come.
I am very glad to have and will use it as my main reference. Negusb is a great author.
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Summary: A complete reference
Review: This is a great reference for medium linux users, and it has many tips. If you are working in a home server or a personal project about networking, you got your best reference. You have a detailed explanation about many server tasks, for example: FTP server, HTTP server, secure user access and other topics.
You can try everything inside the book with your PC after installing Linux in your system (included installer Cds with the book). The complete reference.
Rating: 
Summary: Retreads
Review: This review is based mainly on the 7.2 Bible, although I checked the 7.3 in the bookstore to see if it had improved much. The 7.2 was basically old shallow material, with some paragraphs about stuff that had changed. I looked up PAM: "see Pluggable Authentication Module", look up the latter: "p. 588". On p. 588 there is one useless sentence on the subject! I looked in the index for "usb", which has been available in the kernel for a couple revs. Nary a word. I had two boot failures, and the book was useless on dealing with either one. My CD wouldn't mount: the CD troubleshooting section suggests rebuilding the kernel and never mentions trying a different jumper setting on the CD hardware (thank you, web!). Look elsewhere!
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