Fedora 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Bible [With 2 CD-ROMs and DVD]

The book is very good, it was detailed with exactly what I was looking for. this will be a very good book to have for reference in the future. Money well spent.

This book is truly awesome. I knew next to nothing about linux and after having the book for 2 weeks I have built a server ready to control the network for a small business.

I bought this book mainly to get the next upgrade of Fedora along with useful documentation. The book is enormous and contains much information that was useful to me along with much more information that was of no interest to me, but may have been interesting to someone else. In other words the book is like an encyclopedia.

The new book of Negus is of superb quality to the introduction of the basic and of some advanced features of Fedora Core 5. The FC5 is significantly improved related to the previous FC4 and the Negus book succeeds in presenting to the reader all the appropriate material. Also the accompanied DVD with the full FC5 distribution, the CD Fedora 5 extras and the live Fedora Core 5 CD, contribute to the value of the book. I strongly recommend this book as well as the excellent Fedora Core 5 distribution that it covers.

This book reflects the amazing progress that the Fedora Linux project has made recently. If you have not used the free Red Hat-sponsored Linux system since the Red Hat Linux days, you may be surprised at how excellent Fedora has become. Red Hat has backed up its support for Fedora by putting many of its world-class developers on the project; not only in Fedora Core, but also in Fedora Extras, Fedora Marketing, and Fedora Live CD projects. Those projects are reaching to the greater Linux community in ways that have really begun paying dividends. As in previous editions, this book takes the reader through a wide range of topics (installation, shell and desktop use, system administration, and more than a dozen network servers). But in this edition, the book also includes features from revitilized Fedora projects outside of Fedora Core. The first CD that comes with the book (an unofficial live CD built with tools from the Fedora Kadischi project) lets you test out Fedora before installing it. The CD may be a bit slow to boot, but gives a good set of Fedora applications to try out. The second CD contains hundreds of Fedora Extras packages (including some nice multimedia tools and wiki software). The DVD with the book is the complete Fedora Core 5 installation DVD. It includes more than 2,200 software packages. I hope you enjoy my book. --Chris Negus