Linux Pocket Guide

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Linux

Running Linux

Format: Paperback
Author: Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
ReleaseDate: 01 December, 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:

Authors are so smart, they're dumb
But it fails in small, maddening ways when speaking to this audience. This book is pitched, at least in part, to Linux beginners. After a lot of discussion of disk partitioning and install, page 65 tells you to run the "man" command in a shell session. It offers no clue that the only way to terminate a "man" command is the letter Q - a completely unintuitive action. So a new user can flounder forever, or at least until they get frustrated and reboot. But I don't mean to slam just this book. That same problem exists in most other beginning Linux books, even O'Reilly's pocket guide. All these knowledgeable authors seem to think that noephytes will somehow magically gain access to information that the authors have in their heads, but haven't committed to paper.

Except for that, it's a very good book. .

KEEP YOUR LINUX RUNNING


Dalheimer and Welsh, begin by introducing you to Linux, and bring you to the point where you can do all the standard activities people do on other systems: emailing , web surfing, playing games, watching videos, and so on. Are you a programmer who is increasingly using Linux because of its extensibility and low cost? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Matthias Kalle Dalheimer and Matt Welsh, have done an outstanding job of writing this 5th edition of a practical guide that provides you with an overview to Linux as a desktop and a back-office system. Then, the authors show you how to set up your Linux system and its environment for such tasks as printing and sharing files with other systems. They also show you how to take care of your system in other ways. Next, they explore interesting advanced topics that make Linux a powerful asset, such as programming. Finally, they introduce several services and other advanced networking activities.

In this most excellent book, the authors show you how you can completely change the way you work with computers by exploring a powerful and free operating system. More importantly, this book gives you some of the behind-the-scenes views, so you have an understanding of the workings of a system, even if it's not strictly necessary for casual Linux use.

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Fantastic Linux Resource
Intro to Linux
02. Before I state my thoughts on this book, at over 950 pages this is one of the biggest books you will find on a computer shelf, so it's worth providing a list of the content within:

01. Installation
03. Desktop Environments
04. Basic Unix commands
05. Web Browsers & IMs
06. E-Mail Clients
07. Games
08. Office Applications
09. Multimedia
10. System Administration Basics
11. Managing Users, Groups, Permissions
12. Installing/Compiling Programs
13. Networking
14. Printing
15. File Sharing
16. X Windows
17. System start & shutdown
18. Configuring the Kernel
19. Text Editing
20. Text Processing (XML, TeX, etc)
21. Programming Tools
22. Running a Web Server
23. Handling E-Mail
24. Running an FTP Server
25. Running Web Applications with MySQL & PHP
26. Securing the System
27. Backup & Recovery
28. Running Windows Programs

As you can see, this is one INVOLVED book. With a massive amount of page, this is not for someone that is looking for a quick how-to guide, or someone that is looking for a teaching tool for Linux. First and foremost, this is a REFERENCE book, and it's a darn good one at that.

Ideally if I wanted a guide that explained to me the ins and outs of setting up Linux and getting things up and running, I would want a lot of content, and a lot of explanation contained within. For the relatively low price of this text, that is EXACTLY what you are going to get and it's no wonder this is in its 5th Edition.

Fantastic material that is in-depth and T-H-O-R-O-U-G-H as it examines one of the hottest operating systems out there in the world today.

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.