Rating: 
Summary: Excellent reference, better than the man pages
Review: This book was listed as an optional textbook for a Unix (Linux) class that I took, but I quickly realized that there was nothing optional about it. I had to have it. I use this book often since Linux's man pages can be somewhat cryptic to a new user like me. The author does an excellent job of explaining the commands and options in plain english.
Obviously since this is a reference book (basically a Linux dictionary) you will not read it cover to cover. Instead you will find yourself constantly referring back to it, looking up new things you haven't seen before or old things that you can't quite remember. Having this book on your shelf is sort of like having a good Webster's dictionary, it's a must.
Rating: 
Summary: Could have been excellent
Review: This could have been an excellent reference manual had the author bothered to give command syntax along with a more complete list of options. The other thing that keeps me from giving this or any other computer book I own a five star rating is a poor, incomplete index. Why is it that people who write books on computers don't use their computers to amass comprehensive indexes? Baffles me. Anyway, I keep this book close by, but it has turned out to be less than I hoped for and less than it is rated as being. If it had a good index, I would give it four stars. If it provided more in the way of command syntax, I would probably give it five stars. This is a book for intermediate to advanced users willing to jot notes in the margins on command options not included and cross references not indexed.
Rating: 
Summary: Dry to the bone reference book.
Review: This is a great book for linux commands. It will not teach you linux. It is for linux users to use as a reference for commands. It also breifly covers Boot Methods, Package Managers, shells, Pattern Mathcing, Emacs, Vi, sed, gawk, CVS and RCS, GNOME, KDE and fvwm2.
Rating:
Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: ~~
Although not for "Newbies," of my dozen or so Linux books, "Linux In a Nutshell" is the most thourougly concise (is that a contradiction of terms?) of them all. A virtual "Bible" of commands, options, and information.
This book will stay alongside your computer while the others will remain on your bookshelf. ~~ Lloyd W. Cary ~~
Rating:
Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: ~~
Although not for "Newbies," of my dozen or so Linux books, "Linux In a Nutshell" is the most thourougly concise (is that a contradiction of terms?) of them all. A virtual "Bible" of commands, options, and information.
This book will stay alongside your computer while the others will remain on your bookshelf. ~~ Lloyd W. Cary ~~
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