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Hands-On Linux: Featuring Caldera Openlinux Lite, Netscape Navigator Gold, and Netscape Fasttrack Server on Two Cds

Format: Paperback
Author: Mark G. Sobell
ReleaseDate: January, 1998
Publisher: Addison-Wesley (C)
Rating:

A good addition to any LINUX library
Sobell's book doesn't cover everything, but the topics he does cover are well presented, clearly written and often cross-referenced in the text itself, which save a lot of frantic paging around to find a forgotten detail. It's probably not possible to write "complete" book on Linux, because the OS is still new and rapidly evolving, both technically and as a commodity in the computing market.

Sobell focuses on basic Linux programming and development, rather than installation, setup, hardware, etc. , so his book makes a good companion volume to the "sysadmin" handbooks on the market, which often come up short on details about the OS language and utilities.

Excellent for intermediate and beginners
It really helped me once i had Linux installed. This is an excellent book. Of course if you are still struggling with getting Linux installed then look elsewhere. Overall an Excellent buy. Yet the software bundle is a little lacking. The software bundled doesnt really demonstrate the free software capabilities of Linux considering most of it is on a 90 day evaulation period.

Don't bother if you'r installing
This book does not help in the least, and I don't understand why Caldera would put it on the shelves with a CD in the back. Installing Linux and all its modularized parts is deeply confusing.

For example, the most important reconfiguration item available is called LISA, and it does not appear in the index.