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Summary: i want to know about linux
Review: I want to know more about redhat linu
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Summary: Caldera OpenLinux version with book already out of date
Review: The current version of Caldera OpenLinux is 2.3 (The book includes ver 1.3.) which is freely available for download at their web site. You can also download the Getting Started Guide which tells you how to install ver 2.3 with screen shots. After you install Caldera OpenLinux you will automatically boot into KDE. Which means you can start with Chapter 3 in this book. Most of the information in the book is still true and it can be applied to any Linux distribution. This is still a good introdction to Linux. A revised edition reflecting ver 2.3 would be nice.
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Summary: Caldera OpenLinux version with book already out of date
Review: The title of this book is very misleading, IMHO. OK, so the blurb it says it concentrates on the graphical environment, and you'd better believe it! Almost everything it does is under X-Windows and the K desktop environment. It concentrates on APPLICATIONS, not the operating system. Look at the specs for the book, and you see it's 300 pages. Well, 50 of these pages tell you how to use Star Office, 24 of them are an installation guide for Caldera's OpenLinux, even eight of them deal with running Caldera's DR-DOS programs! I could go on, but I think you'll have got the idea. *IF* you want to use Caldera OpenLinux (a copy of which comes on the included CD-ROM), and want to have your Linux system work like something resembling a Windows system, then this may well be the book for you. However, if, like me, you want a basic grounding in the Linux operating system itself, then forget it, this is NOT the book for you. My copy is on its way back to Amazon just as soon as I can get it to the Post Office!
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Summary: Good for those of you trying to weane yourself from Windows.
Review: This is not a very bad book but it is extremely outdated. Caldera v2.3 is the newest version and as the reviewer below stated...download that version to use. I find this a nice guide for those of you that would like to try Linux for the first time and are either wanting to get away from Windows products or are even trying out a OS for the first time ever. It is a visual guide as stated, in color, yet the newer Caldera will allow you to skip all the X terminal and command line prompt garbage in the first few chapters, so you can jump straight to KDE pretty much. Caldera is not the most popular distro of Linux available, but it is a nice start for the beginner and this book will tell you enough to give you a working knowledge of the GUI functions it has using the KDE interface. ...Even still, this a decent price for a starter kit. Not that great...but definitely serviceable.
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Summary: Good for those of you trying to weane yourself from Windows.
Review: This is not a very bad book but it is extremely outdated. Caldera v2.3 is the newest version and as the reviewer below stated...download that version to use. I find this a nice guide for those of you that would like to try Linux for the first time and are either wanting to get away from Windows products or are even trying out a OS for the first time ever. It is a visual guide as stated, in color, yet the newer Caldera will allow you to skip all the X terminal and command line prompt garbage in the first few chapters, so you can jump straight to KDE pretty much. Caldera is not the most popular distro of Linux available, but it is a nice start for the beginner and this book will tell you enough to give you a working knowledge of the GUI functions it has using the KDE interface. ...Even still, this a decent price for a starter kit. Not that great...but definitely serviceable.
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