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Summary: Only mistakes
Review: Ok tell me a page number page 111 ....Page 110 and 111 contains some printouts of installing a debian package. If you are surprised, what each of these lines mean, you are out of luck. This book doesnt explain or even try to explain any of that. After you go through the 5 pages dedicated for debian package manager, when you look back, you realise that the actual information content could have been given in half a page or so. The coverage of each topic is like that in this book. Like someone else suggested, pl go to the nearest book store and see this book for yourself. LPI Prep kit on the other hand is excellent compared to this.
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Summary: wonderful pack of mistakes
Review: Page # 236 "A zombie is a process whose parent has terminated and cannot clear references to the child process" He even goes one more level and says... "chare 1870 1 7 17:25 ? 00:00:01 kwm The output of ps indicates that the process is now a zombie and is owned by the init process" This clearly shows his ignorance about the basic definition of a zombie process. What else do you expect from someone whose only experience is clicking some silly microsoft buttons. Shame on you authors. It makes me so angry that some cheap MS guy managed to get guy 40$ from me for this useless book. By the way a zombie process is a process which is already dead ( and hence the name zombie ) , but whose parent is still alive, but has not yet asked for the process termination status. ( So the OS still keeps parts of the dead process' process table thinking that some time later the parent is going to ask for the status - wait system call. This results in the wastage of system resources ).
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Summary: Are you kidding
Review: The book is a non starter. It will be silly to beleive that this is all they ask for the exam. Because there is absolutely no solid information at all. Towards the end you will feel that the authors wrote this book while watching Jerry Springer show. They simply did not seemed to care about it anymore. Page 285 - The only information about Samba is a half page print out of the homepage Page 286 - 287 : unnecessary lengthy /etc/hosts file are printed 3 times. Page 282 : half page printout of homepage Right from the beginning, the book is crammed with serious mistakes. My estimate is that if the authors try hard for about 2 years, they will start to understand linux. Then they will have to spend another 5-7 years to become good in it. Only after that should they even think about teaching linux.
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Summary: Not worth half the money
Review: The book is nothing but a collection of blunders. Here is a sample from Part II On page 22 author gives the complete commands for fdisk in almost one page without any explanation at all. As if that was not enough, the very next chapter repeats the same table - again without any explanations, but with one difference - most of the commands are b b - Edit the disk label b - Toggles the DOD compatibility flag b - adds a new partition b - Creates a new empty DOS partition table b - quits without saving the changes b - Creates a new empty sun disklabel. This is probably the simpler of the mistakes, as the editor can be blamed for this. Throughout the book you will see mistakes simply because the Author himself has not understood the concept. Like mixing up between Partition table, boot record and superblock. It came as a surprise to me that many people gave good rating for this book. Frankly I suspect foulplay here. It could very well be the authors themselves.
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Summary: Somewhat Disappointing
Review: The book--General Linux II--only covers half of what the Exam will cover. Fraught with typos and errors, I can hardly believe that this title was even brought to market.... As early as on page 15, "MM" is defined as "two-digit year" instead of a "two-digit month". On page 17 lists "ea_h" instead of "each", "usad" instead of "used". Even crucial Linux commands were not spared. A hundred pages later, Question 4, "dpkg" is spelt as "dpklg"! Again, if you flip to page 322, Question 33 and elsewhere, there is no distinction between an "I" and "l", and since you can't tell the distinction between the letters, you cannot at all answer the question. There are more errors but I can overlook them if not for the fact that the material was so meekly presented that one wonders how claims can be made by the publisher as "The Smartest Way to Get Certified". Typos aside, the section on Hardware and Architecture does not elaborate sufficiently on LPT1 and LPT2 for the IRQs. Nor did the section on Package Management touch on non-abbreviated commands or alternate commands (L can also mean --listfiles, etc, etc). I've highlighted only a few of the many deficiencies in the book since the errors are too many to list. The fact that the main author Chris Hare is not even LPIC qualified left me a nagging feeling that there is no quality control in place. To sum it all, the book covers about half the objectives adequately of the LPIC exam. The rest is really a hit and miss affair by the authors (actually more misses than hits), who clearly reveal a lack of understanding of the material needed on the LPIC exam. (I personally believe that Dulaney's name is merely to grace the book, since most screen shots clearly shows Hare's user name). The only saving grace is that there are more than 200 questions and answers that can help in some preparation. Use this book only in conjuction with another book, and only if you got money to spare.
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Summary: Full of Errors and Typos
Review: The title explains it all. Your better off with O'Reilly's LPI in a Nutshell. The O'Reilly book covers both the 101 and 102 exams. The Exam Cram LPI 101 book was okay, but the 102 book is terrible.
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Summary: Yeah, It's That Bad
Review: The word "awful" comes to mind as you read through the endless unexplained printouts, laugh at the typos, and scratch your head over the bungled explanations. How did this monstrocity ever see the light of day? What exactly DID they mean on page 6 when they advised us to "try to deal with each question by thinking through what you know about (sic!) networking essentials"? WHY are there 3 places in this book that list fdisk commands (one of them comically assining the letter b to six of the options)? And is a 4 page printout of lpd.perm supposed to replace an explanation of what it's for? These are all interesting questions, all of them aparently missed by the editing staff at Coriolis Press. As others here have pointed out, the glowing reviews on this page (and there are some) could only have come from the authors themselves (close relatives?). Do not buy this book. As far as LPI exam preparation goes, O'Reilly's "LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell" by Jeffrey Dean is actually very good.
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Summary: Terrible!
Review: This book is filled with errors. I was going to be nice and give it 2 stars, until I read this on page 122 about vi --> "Who wants to work with such an application when word processors such as Microsoft Word exist?" Are you kidding me? Has the author ever even worked with Linux before? I've read over 20 Exam Cram/Prep books before and this is easily the worst one. Go buy O'Reilly's LPI in a Nutshell. It covers both exams in one book and is much much better than this.
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Summary: Terrible!
Review: This book is filled with errors. I was going to be nice and give it 2 stars, until I read this on page 122 about vi --> "Who wants to work with such an application when word processors such as Microsoft Word exist?" Are you kidding me? Has the author ever even worked with Linux before? I've read over 20 Exam Cram/Prep books before and this is easily the worst one. Go buy O'Reilly's LPI in a Nutshell. It covers both exams in one book and is much much better than this.
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Summary: awfull, full of errors a waste of money
Review: This book is full of errors, does not address portions of the test and is waste of money. Not only does the book contain errors, there is not even an errata site to report errors! I can only think that the publisher/authors realize that if they did create an errata site for this dismal excuse to waste paper it would be just as long as the book! Yes there are other section just as useless, but this is the one section that was totaly useless. I dare any one to glean any useful information from the book about the debian pack manager. Being a Suse and Redhat user this is the one section that I needed assistance with. This book was of NO USE on this issue. Do not waste your money on this book!
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