Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed [With 2 CDROMs]

Having an Unleashed book will make your more of an expert on the topic you are reading about, and Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed is no different. People who have never used Linux or are experienced users will find this book helpful as it gives insight into how to install, configure, secure and get the most out of Red Hat Linux 7. One chapter many advanced users who are using a dual boot system will find helpful is Chapter 9 on System Startup and Shutdown. One disadvantage about this book, and others, is the lack on coverage on installing Linux on a Windows 2000, NT or XP version of Windows. While Windows XP is not, out yet I have been baffled at the lack of coverage on installing the Linux Loader or LILO for an NT based system.(Many people who are using the LILO and want to put it on the MBR will have to learn by trial and error.) However, the intermediate or advanced user will find the rest of the information on the LILO and the Master Boot Record to be very helpful. Also included with the book is Red Hat Linux 7 on three CD's including documentation and source. Having an extra copy (unless your getting your first copy from the book) is helpful if your copy ever goes bad. No matter what you are planning on doing with Red Hat Linux 7, you must pickup a copy of this book. Believe me you will thank me when something goes wrong and this book as the answer in it.

I have a UNIX background and wanted to dabble in Linux at home, setting up a Linux server for a home network. I picked up this book (as well as a few others) and found that this is the one I always refer to when I need to get something done. It is a great reference for "how-to's" like how to install something, change network settings, configure mail etc. Even for very complicated subjects like Samba and Apache, this book gives you just enough to get you going. Highly recommended as a reference, but I probably wouldn't recommend it to complete newbies just struggling to learn what the OS is all about.

Okay, I picked up this tome and noticed that it had a lot of what I was looking for and then some. I don't know that I'll ever use the programming sections - excpet, perhaps, Perl and C, but I have good books on those already.I have used this book in three ways. 1) After a system crash and I could not restore my filesystems, it has the commands to do the file checking and get the inodes straightened out. I have probably had to do this on four or five systems because of users must turning things off. (Yes, I have the page and the commands highlighted. 2) Initial installation is pretty easy with Red Hat, but there were times when I did not know what the things were. The book provided better explanations than I could find in many of the on-line documents that are based on the how-to. 3) After a set-up, I used the book to help me configure X-Windows for the new monitor. Now, I have several years of Unix experience so I'm not looking for how to do an ls command. I am looking for how to make the services work, what this brand of unix calls various files, and how to keep a system managed.Let me say this bluntly, THIS BOOK WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR BEGINNERS. But, for the person with some guts, or some experience with systems, you will probably find this as valuable a tool as I have...

This book has it all! The basics! Networking! Programming! I use it everyday at work.

Overall this is a good reference book. It is not the type thing that you are going to sit down and read cover to cover. Some chapters you will read all of and some you will just use to find specific items. It is probably a little advanced for someone new to Linux and a little basic for the more advanced user. It is for the intermediate type, which I am and it is great so far.