LINUX Administration for Dummies [Paperback]

Michael Bellomo (Author), Dummies Technology Press (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764505890 | ISBN-13: 978-0764505898 | Publication Date: October 1999

Linux Administration For Dummies shows its readers just how to maintain Linux in a client/server environment.

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About the Author

Michael Bellomo received a degree in law from the University

Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764505890
• ISBN-13: 978-0764505898
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,614,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Bellomo holds an MBA from the University of California at Irvine, a Juris Doctor in Law from UC San Francisco, and a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma Manufacturing Techniques from UC San Diego.

Currently he is a manager at a major biopharmaceutical company, dedicated to the manufacture of plasma-based medicines and therapies.

Michael has written 19 books in various non-fiction fields, including technology, business operations, and 'mass market' science. Michael's books have been published internationally in Italian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Korean, German, Russian, and Chinese.

Since the Silicon Valley dotcom boom, he has worked as a financial e-commerce manager, a think-tank analyst studying how new technologies (TiVo, eBay, Blackberry) change consumer markets, and as a risk assessment engineer with a DoD consulting firm.

Michael was part of the team that analyzed what went wrong during the Columbia shuttle disaster. He has worked on projects ranging from how to stop bioterrorists to streamlining NASA's ability to send payloads to the International Space Station. Due to his background as a voiceover artist, he was selected by NASA to be the featured narrator for a DVD presentation sent to Congress on the development of the Orbital Space Plane.

He is the co-author of two Amazon bestsellers involving technology and science: eBay Your Business and Microbe: Are We Ready For The Next Plague?, a chilling work on how vulnerable we are to new, exotic diseases and acts of biological terrorism. The book is now a required text for upper division biology courses at California State University, Sacramento and San Francisco City College.

In December 2006, Michael was invited as a guest lecturer and panel participant at Harvard University for his latest popular science book, The Stem Cell Divide. The book is a look into the kaleidoscope of scientific wonder, religious dogma, and the hype machine surrounding the field of stem cell science research.

Michael lives in Los Angeles, California.

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Intro to Administration = 10 Complex Stuff = 6, October 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: LINUX Administration for Dummies (Paperback)

Awesome intro to basic administration, if you have more than year of hardcore admin experience, though, this book is gonna be too simple. Otherwise it uses analogies and examples to show you what to do, which is pretty good for beginners.

I particulary liked the fact that I didn't have to slog through a lot of **stretched** or stupid humor to get to the meat of the book. The jokes that were there were generally OK. Sometimes, they were pretty funny. Most imortant, they were never boring.

I feel like I got my money's worth. If this guy ever writes a more advanced Linux Administration book, I'll buy it in a minute.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Restored my faith in the Dummies series, October 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: LINUX Administration for Dummies (Paperback)

Got the information I needed. Although it's on more complex stuff, it's a lot less murky than `Linux for Dummies'. Some of the jokes are fun too. Only thing is, needs to cover GNOME or KDE! If the Dummies editors are listening (and if they aren't---dummies, that is), they need a KDE or GNOME book!!!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not particularly helpful, June 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: LINUX Administration for Dummies (Paperback)

Most of the "for Dummies" franchise books are designed for the neophyte, and so one has certain expectations. But this book is not written for someone who wants to begin administrating linux from scratch as, say, a pilot project to determine the value of the operating system. It may have some value for someone snatched out of the typing pool (do they still have those?) and chosen to administer an existing Linux network, but, in my situation, that is difficult to determine.

First, it doesn't explain how to do anything, really that would seem to have practical value today. As an example, once one has bought a book from a different source, and learned how to install Linux, what would be the first thing to do? Install the web server, perhaps? Or get it started? This book ignores that subject. It discusses the Netscape communicator and a fairly substantial piece of the book is dedicated to this, and discussing what a url is, and how to surf the www...all topics likely experienced by most of their readers, but nothing about setting up a web server. Then, to underline the significance of learning about servers to the reader, the author devotes several pages, including a chapter, to setting up NNTP clients and servers. Yep, that's right, it discusses in detail how to get 1980's technology today.

Save your money...