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Linux Universe: Installation and Configuration

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My purpose in purchasing this book was to learn an operating system that I was not familiar with. I have several friends that use linux as an OS of choice and I felt that I wanted to try it as well. I depend totally on good books to learn things that I don't know. This book doesn't even come close to helping. It actually hindered me from accomplishing my goal. The installation portion is very poorly written. It was vague and assuming. The shell used to configure the X Terminal did not result in a working X term. It errored out during install with indications that files did not exist where they should have been.

And the rest of the installation book and the accompanying "Unleashing your Workstation" and other CD's?? Why should I, as short on time as anyone else, want to use the remaining info, when 10% caused this much pain?

I'm so frustrated now and I still don't know any more about Unix than I did before. The book refers you to a webpage at Springer (publisher)that doesn't even exist anymore. I want my money back!!

The book seems like it was translated from a foriegn language. As a Win95 user, I had a great deal of trouble with this installation and ended up buying RedHat Linux 5.1 (which is much better).