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Customizing and Upgrading Linux [Paperback]

Linda McKinnon (Author), Al McKinnon (Author)
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047120885X 978-0471208853 January 4, 2002 2nd Edition
A no-nonsense guide for IT professionals

While Linux vendors promise speed, efficiency, and reliability, it's the IT professionals who must deliver on that promise. Updated to reflect all the recent changes to Linux version 2.4, this new edition of the McKinnons' popular guide gets system administrators and engineers quickly up to speed on everything they need to know to customize and upgrade their Linux systems. From swap-space options, disk partitions, and installation, through printer and video device configuration and installing and upgrading the Linux kernel, this guide follows the highly successful, classroom-tested approach that the McKinnons have refined during their years as professional trainers.

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A fast-paced guide to customizing and performing upgrades to Linux on a network

In order to fulfill Linux's promise of delivering speed, efficiency, and reliability to a network, you must be able to properly customize and perform upgrades on this operating system. Updated to reflect all the recent changes to the core Linux kernel up through version 2.4, this new edition of the McKinnons' popular book gets you quickly up to speed on everything you need to know to customize and upgrade your Linux systems. Following the highly successful approach that the McKinnons have refined during their years as professional trainers, this accessible guide takes you step-by-step through the decisions and procedures required to customize Linux and make use of the many available upgrades.

This book shows you how to:
* Install Linux on an IDE or SCSI/RAID system
* Install Linux using NFS
* Configure the video and monitor performance
* Upgrade the kernel using RPM packages

About the Author

LINDA Mc KINNON has more than ten years' experience working with large organizations to develop Requests for Proposals for government projects, architect networks, and implement systems-integration projects. She teaches courses in SP2 /AIX and WebSphere Commerce for IBM Worldwide.
AL Mc KINNON is a professional engineer who regularly assists clients with network auditing, optimization and troubleshooting, distributed access and systems management, and systems migration. He teaches courses on network operating system administration and is a technical author and editor of IBM computer education and related materials.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 2nd Edition edition (January 4, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 047120885X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471208853
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,708,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Covers Stuff not all the books Do, August 7, 2002
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This review is from: Customizing and Upgrading Linux (Paperback)
This is an interesting book. If you're looking for how to set up any of the standard UNIX type services like DNS or a Samba server, this is not the book for you. But it does cover stuff like installing over a network, configuring XFree86, installation on SCSI, and kernel building, which are topics not always or often covered in other books. All in all, a handy reference for a Linux bookshelf.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It's about time this book was published, April 7, 2002
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This review is from: Customizing and Upgrading Linux (Paperback)
As an experienced Unix person but new to Linux, I found this book to be very helpful and relevant to getting Linux up and running, and then updated. Updating the kernel is really a complex task, and was very well explained by the McKinnons. I've tried to follow a couple of other books and found them to be less helpful than the mcKinnons' book.
It's well worth the money, and is an essential reference guide for anyone working with Linux -- especially us newcomers.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't live up to its title, March 26, 2002
This review is from: Customizing and Upgrading Linux (Paperback)
I'm sorry I can't say that this was a great book. The authors clearly have put forth a great dea of effort.
The book failed to provide any real information on customizing and upgrading. Fully half the book describes various installation techniques, all of which are covered very well in the basic 'Installation guide' provided with most versions of Linux.
The next chapter, Video config, spend a great deal of space on discussing CRT technology, but then only weakly connected it to xf86config. The chapter on printers relatively useful.
The next chapter discussed RPM at length. Then kernel RPM.
The use of packages is pretty straight forward, but the authors managed to get two chapters worth out of it.
The final chapter was actually useful but extremely small. The entire topic of building a kernel was treated in only a few pages (when you discount for pictures). That was it, end of book :-(
Overall, I was expecting a book that I would be able to look in the index for a topic like 'configuring name servers' and find the page that describes it. Alas, I was quite disappointed with the fairly brief treatment the book gave to the more interesting aspects of 'Configuring and Upgrading Linux'
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