Mastering Gnome

Rating:
Summary: The book is useless.
Review: I found this book very useless. It doesn't talk about GNOME internals, all it teaches you is what to expect from the icon when you click on it. I was very disappointed with this book.

Rating:
Summary: The book is useless.
Review: I found this book very useless. It doesn't talk about GNOME internals, all it teaches you is what to expect from the icon when you click on it. I was very disappointed with this book.

Rating:
Summary: Great for a Linux-novice but adept Windows-user
Review: I have used Windows for years, even created as well as used software applications. But Linux/Unix has long been a mystery to me. I installed Red Hat 7.1 onto my home computer and the automatic installation was easy enough but then I was dumbfounded. I tried to get some jobs done, like installing software, viewing files etc. but didn't know how.

This book does not tell you everything. In fact, you need to get some other book that is completelly about Linux administration and command line use. But for using the Gnome windowing system, this book is a great start. In a couple of days I was using Gnome like Windows, with no trouble.

Now, I just need to dive deeper into Linux admin and command line use... ;)

Rating:
Summary: Warning: Out of date
Review: This book, despite its size, is really just a presentation of Gnome. Many, many pages are taken up with descriptions of various programs that work under Gnome. It is nice to know what is out there, but I quickly needed more information than this book could provide.

Most of all though, this book is very out of date.

Rating:
Summary: Mastering Gnome is very good
Review: This is a great book.

It is well written and informative.

I had no idea just how powerful and flexible Gnome was until I read this book. I used to be a die hard KDE user but since reading this book I've switched to using Gnome.