Linux Unleashed (4th Edition)

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Summary: If you have Red Hat, Caldera, or Debian....
Review: ....this is the book for you. It provides the locations of files and important documents. Overall coverage of just about everything you could ever want in a book. If you don't use Red Hat, Caldera, or Debian then this isn't the book for you; but if you do, it's the ultimate reference.

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Summary: Very Good Book Covers Extraordinary Topics
Review: I am an intermediate Linux user, and firmly believe that if you had to buy only one Linux book, this would make a great choice. I was very happy to see the variations between the Red Hat, Cladera, and Debian distributions being discussed. This book really covers an amazing amount of topics. For example, the basics of the languages C, C++, Perl, gawk. Tcl, Python, and Java are mentioned. Of course, the material would never cover any of them in depth, but the author's attempt at including so many was surprising. I believe that if I had a year to sit down and understand all of the contents in this book (almost 1500 pages) I would truly understand how to use Linux.

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Summary: Most Balanced Linux Book Created
Review: I believe that this book is perfect for learning everything about linux. I know when i bought it i was a little confused...well a lot, but now i understand it much better. It takes time, you must use linux a lot and when you come up with problems, look them up in the book. The more you look up, the more you will understand about linux. Basically i'm saying the more problems you have with your linux console, the better you will be with linux (because you have used this book to help you solve your problem).

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Summary: Too many topics (good), but little detail (bad)
Review: I was searching for an updated reference Linux book, to consult now and then. I bought Linux Unleashed with this idea in mind. However, i have found that trying to cover so many topics had resulted in covering them superficially. For instance I have found myself trying to add a new hard drive after using linux for more than a year and all the instructions for partitioning and adding drives were referred to the initial installation of the OS, and i wouldn't like to reinstall linux just to add a drive. I still have an old book on Linux by Tim Parker that although outdated explains everything more clearly and with more detail.

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Summary: If you have Red Hat, Caldera, or Debian....
Review: The book seems to contain quite a bit of information, but as a person with no prior expiereince with Linux I found it very difficult to use as a reference book. I would recommend the book to people with some Linux expierience.

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Summary: Good for someone with previous Linux expierience
Review: The book seems to contain quite a bit of information, but as a person with no prior expiereince with Linux I found it very difficult to use as a reference book. I would recommend the book to people with some Linux expierience.