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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible (Bible)

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Linux Bible, 2005 Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Christopher Negus
ReleaseDate: 04 February, 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Rating:

Great book, good companion to UNIX DVD!
It is one of these books that were carefully edited and the examples work correctly. This book makes a great companion for "UNIX Essentials and UNIX Core" DVD course! It is nicely written, pleasure to read and easy to follow. As I mentioned I have coupled it with the DVD and these two make very efficient couple!
I also appreciate the style of the writing, open not mentoring, very nice.

Excellent, even while out of date.
From the absolute basics to a moderately advanced approach, this book offers a huge amount of tips as to which direction to approach Linux. While the Linux world develops by the day, and new advances and Kernels are constantly being updated, this book remains a helpful and near essential tool for a beginning Linux user. I would suggest that anyone reading this book actually download and install the most recent distributions rather than installing the outdated ones on the disks.

The author definitely has a strong presence throughout the book, giving a tone of guidance necessary to those new to the operating system.

Though this book is excellent in it's own respect, never rely solely upon it, and stock up on Linux books. This book seems to wax over the command line, among other small facets of Linux that need to be explored in greater detail, so I would Suggest Linux in a Nutshell, or any of the other fantastic O'Reilly books as a companion to this book

Content: 4/5
Exploration: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Completeness: 5/5
Overall: 5/5.

everything a noob will need to get up and running linux in no time
i just thought this one would be the right one to start learning linux and administering it. i've been thinking what to avail first, the RHFL3 Bible or this one. well, my decision was right and this Linux Bible really is a bible, learned a lot from it and even a dummy will not have a hard time following what the author wants to say in this book. only problem i have with this one is it didn't discuss configuring a DNS server. nways, still a great book to start with.