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Mastering Red Hat Linux 9

Format: Paperback
Author: Michael Jang
ReleaseDate: 17 March, 2003
Publisher: Sybex
Rating:

I encourage you to look for another book.
It is pretty good book for newbies like myself. Well, i bought this book and i am stuck with reinstalling the kernel part. However, it covers too much about xwindows.

Usually gui enviroment is created to let the users get used to the os easily. I don't see a reason why it needs to teach you how to use your right-click-menu.

Another thing that i didn't like about the book is this book is to generalized. Since it is "mastering" linux. It should include more important things and more explanations such as installing new kernel, how to manage webservers etc. Instead it was telling you about all these junks.

The Best of Its Class
Beginners through advanced users alike will find it invaluable as a reference. Michael Jang's Mastering Red Hat Linux 9 is bar-none, simply the best of the BIG books on RH 9.

It's obvious this book was written from scratch -- so many books suffer from over revision with errors and sentences stuck in here and there that don't make sense, but not this book.

Jang is an excellent author -- thank you, Michael, for putting so much effort into your writing. It's clear you have the reader's needs in mind and that you understand the challenges Linux users face, and the questions we will inevitably come up with. In the perfect world, Red Hat would give authors like Michael some of the profits, since his book will most definitely help their company sell more product.

Good Book, can still be improved
It serves well as a guided instruction on those who are just starting with linux. The book is pretty comprehensive and generous with examples. This is book is also a good refernce material, however, there are certain topics I was hoping would be included, like OpenLDAP, mySQL, TACACS+ and how these tools integrate with Linux for it to become more rounded.

Overall, Mastering RH9 is still book worth having on our shelves.