Customer Review: Might be confusing for some who don't realize that various flavours of UNINX and Linux abound but so what! This book is not supposed to teach that kind of thing anyway.
Customer Review: I have been working as a systems admin for the last 6 months. I wish i had this book when i first started. It breaks things up clearly and is easy to follow. It is the only book that I have read on the subject that can be read from cover to cover instead of as a reference.
Customer Review: I stumbled across this book on a library shelf when I was about to install Linux on my home machine for the first time since I'd had Debian (pre-fancy-new-installer) on my laptop in college. (The wireless on that *&@$ thing never worked. Eventually I reformatted it, having learned nothing. But I... more info
Customer Review: I have found this book to be great. I was familiar enough with Linux and yet always seemed to be scouring the internet for How To guides for setting up simple services like Samba Server, FTP services and so on. This book is basically a collection of those most common guides, the configuration of the... more info
Customer Review: This book covers in a excelent way all the process for creating device drivers. Its very good for who wants to start to programming and for who already knows how to programming.
Customer Review: This is a wonderful book to understanding how the linux networking code works. Good coverage of networking code for a beginner-developer to grasp.
Customer Review: Lets make this clear if you haven't memorized all man commands yet then you definately need to buy this book. I totally agree with other reviewers here that this book is an invaluable reference guide to any sysadmin working on the job. I have found that this book has gotten me through LPI 101... more info
Customer Review: As a sysadmin and avid Python user I was looking forward to all the cool tricks/hacks I'd pick up from this book. Once I got it, I was a bit disappointed. The title should be "Learning Python for System Admins". It's very much an into to Python itself, and not anything close to a "cookbook" I was... more info
Customer Review: The Linux networking cookbook is very specifically orientated to Linux networking tasks. While this book would give useful ideas for other *NIX operating systems the real value is for Linux users. The book is orientated for Fedora and Debian (Ubuntu) users as these are the basis of a number of... more info
Customer Review: This book explains step by step how to properly configure basic network services for a corporation.
The text describes most used open source applications and it is focused on Debian Linux distribution ( Ubuntu is based on Debian).
The content of the book is very detailed and the quality... more info