Fri, 29 Apr 2005
Linux Quick Fix Notebook
Peter Harrison, Linux Quick Fix Notebook, Bruce Perens
Open Source Series, Prentice Hall
The idea of this book is that it's an expansion of the advanced
sections in more user level books. It's also all command line
which neatly skips past the different GUI's employed by distro's.
An underlying idea is that you might want to set up a Linux
system for a website or similar while already running some proprietary
OS. As well as that, the book suggests it might be useful for
certification purposes.
As such the book could be pretty useful. There are a number of situations
outlined within logical divisions: website project, RAID, kernel
mods, VPN's and many more. There's an explanation of what's going
on, and how to make things happen as well as examples of console
output.
Random access to solutions is always a bit difficult on paper.
The key is a really good index that maybe includes things under
different headings according to which way different people might
be heading into a problem. The index in this book is quite good,
but not inspired. On paper it's hard to match a set of flat files
on a computer which you grep ... and then there's the web. The
advantage of a book is that a cohesive collection of information
is right there in your hand.
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