84237-7 "Consider air. Consider listening to the radio. Consider beers bought by a friend. LINUX combines aspects of all three." David Bonn, Seattle Software LINUX means freedom for business systems. Businesses are discovering that LINUX can bring them powerful, flexible, customizable computing at a fraction of the cost of other UNIXA (R) operating systems. In this in-depth book, Jim Mohr shows how you can use LINUX as your primary operating system at work and at home. LINUX can run on a mere 2 Mb of RAM, yet it is powerful enough to be the operating system behind over 10 percent of WorldWide Web servers. It allows multi-tasking for multiple users, and can run on a network or alone. Best of all, you get direct access to all the source code, so you can tweak it to meet your precise operating needs-and to grow and change with your organization. LINUX User's Resource is not about telling you which buttons to push. Rather, it provides a full introduction to the function and interactions at the heart of the LINUX system. Topics include: *The operating system and its environment. *LINUX shells and utilities. *System installation, administration, monitoring, and upgrading.* Problem solving for business applications. Because LINUX is ideal for Internet entrepreneurs, special focus is given to: *Networking with LINUX. *Building an Internet server. *Doing business on the WorldWide Web. LINUX User's Resource gives you all you need to get your business up and running with LINUX.
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“Consider air. Consider listening to the radio. Consider beers bought by a friend. LINUX combines aspects of all three.” David Bonn, Seattle Software
LINUX means freedom for business systems.
Businesses are discovering that LINUX can bring them powerful, flexible, customizable computing at a fraction of the cost of other UNIX® operating systems. In this in-depth book, Jim Mohr shows how you can use LINUX as your primary operating system at work and at home.
LINUX can run on a mere 2 Mb of RAM, yet it is powerful enough to be the operating system behind over 10 percent of WorldWide Web servers. It allows multi-tasking for multiple users, and can run on a network or alone. Best of all, you get direct access to all the source code, so you can tweak it to meet your precise operating needs—and to grow and change with your organization.
LINUX User's Resource is not about telling you which buttons to push. Rather, it provides a full introduction to the function and interactions at the heart of the LINUX system. Topics include:
* The operating system and its environment.
* LINUX shells and utilities.
* System installation, administration, monitoring, and upgrading.
* Problem solving for business applications.
Because LINUX is ideal for Internet entrepreneurs, special focus is given to:
* Networking with LINUX.
* Building an Internet server.
* Doing business on the WorldWide Web.
LINUX User's Resource gives you all you need to get your business up and running with LINUX.
About the Author
JIM MOHR was a SCO support engineer for five years. He is currently a software engineer working in Germany for a large system integrator.
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This review is from: Linux Users Resource (Prentice Hall PTR Developer's Resource Series) (Paperback)
I read this book when I was beginning to learn Linux. I would recommend this book to anyone who has at least enough knowledge to install Linux. I found this book to be all encompassing. It includes topics I never came across in other Linux beginners books including the Linux boot process etc. The only down side to this book is the CD-ROM which sports the very little known Linux Pro Distribution.
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A deadly book!,
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This review is from: Linux Users Resource (Prentice Hall PTR Developer's Resource Series) (Paperback)
I have been looking for a book that explains how linux and the unices work. This book has finally provided me with the sort of information that I wanted. I am the sort of person who prefers to understand the fundamentals of the OS and then I can extrapolate enough from there to figure it out. This is not a "how-to" book, it's a book that gives you the basics, the rocks you need to stand on. By the way, in reference to the user above, if you don't know how to use the shell and you want you run linux, you should learn right now! If you want to understand Linux and don't just want to push a button to make things work while not understanding what the button does, this BOOK IS FOR YOU!
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I found the book longwinded and out of sequence,
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This review is from: Linux Users Resource (Prentice Hall PTR Developer's Resource Series) (Paperback)
Per the author "This is not a book that shows you how to administer and run a Linux system." He is correct I just wish he had said this on the cover. For a book that isn't going to tell you how to run Linux he spent a lot of time talking about the shells. (If you don't know what a shell is you are in the same boat with me.) There is a lot of good info in this book but you will have to look for it. He talked about shells and pipes for several pages but you still don't know how to load the software yet so you can't test/try what he is saying, something I found quite annoying. If he meant for the text to be a guide for Linux use in the business world he would have been better off describing how to implement it and then listing a selection of reference books for the installation and administration.
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