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Linux System Administration Black Book: The Definitive Guide to Deploying and Configuring the Leading Open Source Operating System

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Whether you are a newbie to Linux, or recompile Linux Kernels to run your blender in your sleep, this book is for you.

The book is huge (686 pages not counting appendix or index pages) and contains no fluff anywhere, pure information on User Account management, installation & configuration, DNS, Apache, NFS and other "basic" services, shell scripting, building RPMs, hell... everything from Apache to Zeus is in here.

The topics are well presented, no glossing over things just to say they are included, but rather indepth and compotent coverage of each area. My only gripe is that it is a bit too RedHat (and RH Clone) centric. Not enough coverage of my personal favorite Distro (Debian). Other than that one small personal dig, this is a great book, and sits on my desk next to about 4 other books I use daily.

I want to congratulate the author, Dee-Ann has done a great job compiling and melding alot of different and obtuse information and presenting it in a means that is easy to follow, understand, and most importantly, FIND what you are looking for.

I cannot say it enough, if you run Linux, this book is for you.

This book is a beginner's book. Not all bad, but certainly lacks depth. Written just like the MS Windows stuff - here's how to do it. No discussion of why. Many examples, but they can be arbitrary and there is no discussion of what situation the author targeted the example to. Thus, many would be left to think that system administration of Linux is black and white.

Also, this book is aimed at RedHat 6.2. Nobody has used that in years. It's almost irrelevant. The print chapter never discusses CUPS or XPRINT - it only covers the traditional lp and lpr print systems. The networking chapter was OK - but lacked any depth, no good discussion on routing and the examples were so limited that they would only work for a narrow situation.

Don't buy this book, unless you buy mine from me! :-)
I had an Amazon gift certificate, so I did not loose much.

After going through lots of other Linux books, finally found one which has everything except how to install Linux on your computer.

It's a quick and easy way to go around your way while administrating Linux machine provided you have some familiarity with the operating system environment.

The book gives you solutions and answers to lots of common (and uncommon, and sometimes too simple to be worth mentioning in any other book) problems and questions. The book is ordered according to topics and each topic contains related questions and answers. Each question also has reference to other possible questions. For example, in installing a printer, a question such as 'How to connect to Windows printer from Linux' refers to 'How to install printer on Linux and access it from Windows'.

Very useful for someone who is actually working with Linux and need to refer to a book every now and then for quick answers, but definitely not for someone who is just starting to learn Linux administration or hoping to learn it by using this book.

This really is more of a beginners book and not one I would say is for a system administrator. In addition, like every linux book I have found so far, it is distro specific. I will continue to search for a good linux book which spends most of it's time at the command prompt using universal commands instead of the GUI of a specific distro employing a specific GUI.

The combination of very well-written, clear theoretical material and "how to" sections is excellent, leaving all published competitors far behind in the dust. Spectrum and profoundness of covered material is unprecedented. I am an undergraduate computer science student and didn't buy this book for some specific task, just to enlighten myself more in the field,and found a lot of new knowledge. But after graduation, on my first day on the job this book will be in my briefcase: it can save me a lot of effort. "Linux System Administration Black Book" is really great for everyone: from guys who barely know how to spell "kernel" to experienced, sometimes arrogant gurus.

What this book covers are mainly based on the distribution of that of Red Hat. Has plenty of pages and makes one feel that this may contain essential articles though explanations are in fact too short for practically using what's written there. I think this is a book to give any ideas only as a tip and not by a full description. One may need to refer to another book for figuring out what this book was saying. Not kind for the one who want to know in details.

As a system administrator i wanted to learn more about linux and is server potencial. When i saw this, book only two words: "great book!"