General
Linux Administration Handbook
Format: Paperback
Author: Evi Nemeth
ReleaseDate: 25 March, 2002
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Rating:
Jumpstart to linux 
instead of going through all the howto and man pages this book does the job well. this is extremly good book for anyone who is new to moderately experienced in linux.
extremely well written for subject like system administration.
-covers the highlights and details- 
LAH even tells you how to build a kernel. Authors Nemeth,Snyder and Hein cover the subject matter very well. Even mentioned apt-get.
But, they forgot to tell about the fickle nature of this package
when updating on certain platforms. Updated a site the other day
www. linuxfree. net and had all kind of problems with it. In all
honesty this is a pretty good 890 page reference. Well worth it's
price.
Comprehensive coverage and nice drawings.
I haven't delved too deeply into, but have already found it useful in solving a problem I was having getting WinXP/Linux to dual-boot. This book seems like a very comprehensive book compressed into a manageable number of pages. The edition I bought features tabbed pages, so finding a particular area of interest is easy. The writing style is inviting, although I did find some of the digressions, like the section entitled "System Administrator Syndrome", comical but unnecessary. This book was the most appealing of the books I thumbed through on the shelf at my local Barnes and Noble and I found helpful information in the first 20 pages. The pencil drawings are also very amusing. 5 stars! .
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