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If you have more than 10 minutes Net experience and say, ooh, 3 minutes of coding html you can skip the first 200 or so pages. If you have a couple of days of Linux under your belt, you'll find that most of the remaining content can be found in the relevant man pages.

If you're about to join the Linux club you should note that the author used the Caldera distro, and he assumes you will too. So don't install RH/SuSE/whatever and expect to find his admin menu! He also assumes you'll have enough knowledge to fill in the gaps where he was obviously getting bored writing the book.

Sysadmin's should not look here.

Also includes one of those completely out of date CDs. Why oh why?

The examples in the book regarding SSI do not indicate double quotes " around the commands. If you're not familiar with this (like I wasn't) you'll probably end up banging your head against the wall for weeks trying to figure out why SSI doesn't work.

Suck! Yes it was really suck. If you want step by step instructions, you are better off buying other book. The CD-ROM was really really lousy because they have so little driver listing. I have installed RedHat Linux before, and it worked great with all software drivers available in their presented option (I tested this Caldera version because it offered 500MB disk space rather than 2Gbyte like RedHat.) I have all brandname hardware device and yet this Caldera does not have software driver for me to install. Ex: SoundBlaster from Creative Lab, now this is the basic standard sound card. How could this Caldera not support driver for this? see what I mean. So, If you got no name brand, you are in deep yogurt! I don't have money to throw away; so, I am really regretting buying this book. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!

Nicholas Wells may be the most talented technical writer I have ever run across. This book is an extremely well organized and beautifully written introduction to installing and running a Linux based web server. It also provides fascinating information about topics such as how the internet works, why Linux is a superior operating system, and who makes it that way. That said, I found his statement somewhere near the beginning of his book (the one that convinced me to buy it), to the effect that it should be fine for ANY Linux distribution to be overly optimistic. I have been using it as a reference source for 3 days now with Red Hat linux and have encountered a great deal of frustration trying to implement advice and commands that don't work in the Red Hat environment. Even so, I don't regret having bought the book. I just wish he would write another one for Red Hat.

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