Linux for Windows NT/2k Administrators: Secret Decoder Ring [With CDROM]

As an experienced NT/2000 developer and administrator, I was having lots of difficulty making the mental transition to Linux/Unix. Minasi manages not only to keep the reading interesting, which has to a challenge in this subject matter, but the book does a great job in spelling out all the steps needed to do things that are second nature in NT/2000. Something as mundane as setting up a FTP server in Linux required an explanyion of how user rights are managed - Minasi came through. He even has useful tidbits on VI and other tools that come in handy with Linux.Also, I found it rather interesting that even thought he's known as the NT/2000 guru, he shows no reluctance to point out all the parts where Unix/Linux is superior to NT/2000. He even advises readers that it's a good career move to learn Linux! One of the very best tech books I've read in years. Great work!

alright, you guys didn't put my last review in because I made fun of Linux dorks. Well I won't do that this time. The book rules, alright. If you're an NT guy/girl, that is. If your not, then you obviously won't get much out of this book. Buy the freakin book. Mark does a great job of explaining how to set up all the services that you need to know with just the right amount of detail. If you want more detail, go buy one of those thousand page books that Craig Hunt writes. Him and that other guy with Mark made a good team for this project. Good job Mark & Co.

This book is just brilliant. Im a Windows NT/2000 administrator and I wanted to get a grasp on Linux,I have looked at other books on Linux, but this book cuts out the waffle and explains it in terms I already know, saving me so much time.The sections on DNS, Sendmail, Apache and Firewalls are just outstanding.What I like in a book generally is that the Author should explain it to me like Im a two year old, which really fuels my interest and then load on the technical info, its re-inforced then and so much easier to apply, this book does just that The result - when you pick this book up, you just cannot put it down.Buy this book you will not be dissapointed.

I've been waiting for a book like this for a long time. Every other Linux book that I had tried was either for the newbie or the well experienced. No one has taken the perspective that there are people out there who are familiar with servers and networking and might have a clue or two. I've been an MCSE for over 5 years now so my mind and methods were assimilated by the Microsoft way. Learning Linux was an exercise in futility since I couldn't link the methods of the two operating systems together. This book has changed everything. I got the book about a week ago and have gone through half of it already. The author keeps me interested in the material and presents it in a way that any NT administrator can understand. I can safely say that I have learned more about Linux in the first 6 chapters than I have learned from the 4 other Linux books I have purchased in the past. If you know NT/2000 and want to learn Linux, get this book.

I am so happy when someone wrote a book about Linux for NT/2000 Administrator, and couldn't be more happier when this person is Mark Minasi-- DA MAN. I have been waiting this book to be out since July.. I got it on Oct 9 and I being reading since then. I read every words, front cover, back cover, Intro.. (I work 10 hrs+ everyday and in 3 days I already on page 87) I'd try to learn linux since beginning of this year, but all the books that I buy about Linux is too hard to understand, It doesn't explain in a NT/2000 term that I understand, so, I finally gave up the ghost, gave up Linux... This book is so easy to understand... It explain everything in NT terms... The book come with a Linux Mandrake CD, and the book does not base on Mandrake, It also talk about other distributions... I know NT/2000 pretty darn well, but I am a newbie on Linux... With this book, I know it can get me up to speed with Linux... THIS is DA BOOK, if you know NT/2000 and TCP/IP and want to learn Linux FAST.