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“As this book shows, Linux systems are just as functional, secure, and reliable as their proprietary counterparts. Thanks to the ongoing efforts of thousands of Linux developers, Linux is more ready than ever for deployment at the frontlines of the real world. The authors of this book know that terrain well, and I am happy to leave you in their most capable hands.”
—Linus Torvalds“The most successful sysadmin book of all time—because it works!”… More >>
7 Comments Received
May 30th, 2010 @05:50
Instead of the attractive title “Lunix Administration Handbook,” this book should be renamed as “History of the Computer Industry” becasue so much ink and paper are wasted talking about the history of computer industry and the evolution of the hardware used with Linux.
To IT professionals, those old storeis have been told thousands of times. They simply do not want to hear the same old stuff again. On-line IT professionals are eager to learn how Linux interfaces are accessed and what commands are used to fulfill what kinds of configurations. They want to know how to cook a quality Fijita quickly, what ingredients and spices are used, and the basic temperature to control the cooking, instead of knowing the histories of Fijita, the history of Fijita cooking ware, and such useless things that cannot help them make a Fijita.
This book seems to be written by a group of professors according to the style of language level. Now I understand why so MS graduates from Computer Sciences cannot find a job in the realistic world. I like young people to join our IT force. Recently I have interviewed a few of them. Yet none of them can fill up the positions we are offering and I need them urgently and desperately.
Buy this book if you want to learn about the history of computer industry. Never buy it if you want to operate or network Linux systems. I have finished reading 50% of the book. I do not know if I have enough time to waste with the rest of the pages. The writing style and the sentence structures are beautiful, but I need a book that teaches me the Linux skills, not English skills.
Rating: 2 / 5
May 30th, 2010 @06:34
One of the best informational books that I’ve ever read.
Rating: 5 / 5
May 30th, 2010 @08:07
Yes, the book is not bad… But the index at the end is so bad, basically think that the book has no index if you plan to buy it. That’s like everything in linux: it seems great but just impossible to use.
Rating: 3 / 5
May 30th, 2010 @08:54
Purchased this book around Xmas. Month and a half have passed and I have not been able to make one good use out of this book. In my opinion, this is a college text book for students who know knowing about Linux and want to learn Administrative concepts. It is a worthless book for hands-on administrators as well it is worthless for people like me who know enough and need to explore advance topics.
Rating: 1 / 5
May 30th, 2010 @09:57
Administering a Linux environment (or *any* environment, for that matter) requires you to be a master of many different skills. But since you can’t know everything, you’ll need some help. This is a classic… Linux Administration Handbook (2nd Edition) by Evi Nemeth, Barth Snyder, and Trent R. Hein. One of the most practical books on the subject I’ve seen…
Contents:
Section 1 - Basic Administration: Where to Start; Booting and Shutting Down; Rootly Powers; Controlling Processes; The Filesystem; Adding New Users; Adding a Disk; Periodic Processes; Backups; Syslog and Log Files; Software and Configuration Management
Section 2 - Networking: TCP/IP Networking; Routing; Network Hardware; DNS - The Domain Name System; The Network File System; Sharing System Files; Electronic Mail; Network Management and Debugging; Security; Web Hosting and Internet Servers
Section 3 - Bunch O’ Stuff: The X Window System; Printing; Maintenance and Environment; Performance Analysis; Cooperating with Windows; Serial Devices; Drivers and the Kernel; Daemons; Management, Policy, and Politics
Index; About the Contributors; About the Authors
Now when I think of “handbook”, I normally envision something relatively small and thin… facts only. Not this book! At 1000 pages, it occupies a chunk of space on the bookshelf, but it’s space well utilized. Rather than regurgitating the documentation manual for all the Linux utilities, the authors cut to the chase and go straight to practical explanations. They’ll tell you, based on their experience, what works and what doesn’t. The target audience is someone who is already relatively familiar with Linux, but needs to administer it in a production environment. There’s not much wasted space with handholding and tutorials. Furthermore, they try and cover most of the popular Linux server distributions: Red Hat Enterprise (4.3 ES), Fedora Core (5), SUSE Linux Enterprise (10.2), Debian GNU/Linux (3.2 “Etch”), and Ubuntu (6.06). By using icons for each distro in the margins, you can quickly focus in on specific information for your particular environment. That seemed to make the wealth of information presented even more valuable, as I could “at a glance” figure out where I needed to read.
If your day job involves making a Linux system run smoothly, you owe it to yourself and your users to have a copy of this nearby…
Rating: 5 / 5
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