Linux Complete [Paperback]

Jeremy Crawford (Editor), Linda Stephenson (Editor), Lisa Duran (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Complete | Publication Date: July 1999

Linux is a UNIX-like operating system which uses open source code. This text covers everything from installing the OS, to understanding the leading interfaces, to using utilities and applications, to advanced topics like applying Linux in educational institutions.

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Amazon.com Review

Linux Complete is a compilation of documents written for the Linux Documentation Project (and freely available on the Web as part of that effort). Mostly, it's a collection of HOWTO documents, which are succinct statements and descriptions of common Linux-related tasks. Coverage focuses on the 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels.

Most of Linux Complete is outstanding. Linux developers like to write about their products, and their affection for them frequently shows in their writing. The section on IP masquerading, written by Ambrose Au and David Ranch, does a superior job of explaining how to recompile the Linux kernel to support this capability. It also explains how to configure Windows machines, Unix boxes, Macintoshes, and even MS-DOS computers to talk with a Linux machine that's providing IP masquerading services.

Other networking documents are well-written and detailed too, but some parts of this compilation are hardly useful at all. The section on the Gnome environment is little more than a list of menu entries and some how-to procedures that will be obvious to anyone who's played with Gnome for more than a few minutes.

You'll find Linux Complete handy for its presentation of instructions for configuring Linux networks and its 250-page Linux command reference (though the formatting of that reference could be clearer). This book is an economical way to pick up hard copies of many of the most useful Linux documents. Keep it handy if you don't like to read from your video monitor. --David Wall

Topics covered: Everything you ever wanted to know about making Linux jump through hoops but felt too intimidated to ask. Coverage includes installation, device configuration, local area networking, dial-up networking with PPP, IP masquerading, DHCP setup, and IP chains.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1008 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc (July 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782125670
• ISBN-13: 978-0782125672
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.4 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,484,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Techie info that actually seducess the reader!, October 20, 1999

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Tim Warren ([e-mail]) (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Linux Complete (Paperback)

When began looking for Linux OS systems information I expected to be bogged down in the same dull witted text-book writing style I was used to reading in college. This book actually seduces the reader with usefull information and online references that pick up where the authors leave off. I have to force myself to put it down. The seemless flow of usefull information that I rarely gleen from technicians would answer questions as I thought them up. This is a bible of answers to the questions technicians I've spoken to try not to answer.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's not what it claims to be., December 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Linux Complete (Paperback)

It claims to be the COMPLETE contents of the Linux Documentation Project. Then in the fine print it says it has the Essentials.

It's not complete, and it is lacking the essentials, for example, it has almost nothing on DNS, Sendmail, Apache, or SAMBA.

I bought it precisely to have a nice hardcopy of the HOWTOs. I regret the purchase.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A compilation of How-To's with a very weak index., December 12, 1999

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Warren C. Norwood - See all my reviews

This review is from: Linux Complete (Paperback)

If you need a collection of How-To's and you don't want to print them off the net, this book is worth the price. Just don't plan to make it the center of your reference library. Its index is far too weak to serve that purpose.