This text, designed for novice to intermediate users, teaches the non-UNIX user how to get Linux up and running. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete Red Hat Linus distributions and includes all of the Linux documentation from the Internet, including how-to documents.
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Mastering Linux's informed, well-written prose and deliberate pacing gets you up to speed on Red Hat Linux 5.1. The book begins with installation of the Linux kernel and then quickly gets into the installation and use of XFree86. In talking about applications, the author is always very careful to explain exactly how to run and configure each--valuable advice for those not used to the Unix way of doing things. Other chapters explain file management and hardware configuration, and some especially excellent chapters address Linux networking. (The author covers TCP/IP networks, as well as networks based on Microsoft and Novell standards.) A set of hardware compatibility lists and a command reference are also included.
A word of criticism: this book tries a bit too hard to make Linux into a turnkey solution. It isn't like that yet, and any Linux author writing for Unix novices needs to recognize that fact. Danesh should impart more information about working at the Linux command line before jumping into XFree86. But aside from that, this book is a great introduction to Red Hat Linux 5.1. The operating system appears on the accompanying CD-ROM (which, in turn, includes disk images you can use to make boot floppies for a fresh installation). --David Wall
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Coverage includes:
- Installing Linux
- Configuring and using the GNOME and KDE graphical user interfaces
- Configuring and using X-Windows v. 4
- Using Linux commands
- Managing files in Linux
- Connecting to the Internet and e-mailing with Linux
- Using Netscape 6 for Linux
- Faxing from Linux
- Using Linux on a LAN
- Using Linux as part of a Windows network
- Connecting and configuring USB peripherals
- Creating a Linux Web server
- Setting up and using a Linux mail server
- Running DOS and Windows applications using Wine
- Configuring your Linux system with LinuxConf
- Re-compiling the Linux kernel
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I had much success with Sybex books(7 books) until this one. This book is missing key parts and it reads like an instruction that comes with cheap assemble-it-yourself furniture. You end up asking yourself, now what do I do with this part?
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Just for starting on Linux,
By "amalim" (Karachi, Pakistan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mastering Linux [With Contains the Complete Red Hat Linux Distributions] (Mass Market Paperback)
'Mastering Linux' is intended for those people who have never worked in Linux and require superficial overview of the operating system to get started. After this the book has no use. Just like other general book on Linux, the first 5 chapters deal with the introduction and installation. Chapter 6-12 solely discuss the desktop environment, which is very strange considering that using the command shell is more powerful. Even after these chapters, 75% of the remaining book gives the configuration using GUI! Graphical interface is ok but if you actually have to use Linux you are better off with the text mode. Chapter 13-35 are concerned with setting up various servers (SMTP, Web, Database) on Linux and using various graphical utilities. Again why were they added to a general book on Linux, only the author knows. The book has too much information (in 1000+) pages, resulting in no in-depth coverage of any topic (except the desktop environment!) There is only one small chapter on using bash and on chapter on system administration. The only good thing about it is the Appendix for the shell commands. The book is good for giving a newbie a start off and that is all. But again with too much importance given to the GUI. No one can master Linux using this book. Once you have installed the operating system, try buying some other book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Not a good book for beginners.,
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This review is from: Mastering Linux [With Contains the Complete Red Hat Linux Distributions] (Mass Market Paperback)
I was starting to learn about Linux. This book gave a terrible experience that I thought I would stay away from Linux forever. Please do not follow the directions that author gave you. It would lead you to an dead end.
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localhost pppd, efax package, localhost chat, root user mode, nsmod command, manual network configuration, ttab file, trailing context, crontab file, localhost kernel, unsecure network, kernel configuration file, xterm window, pathname expansion, trc file, sync range, armand armand, configuration applet, default desktop environment, filename expansion, fax command, tar xzvf, inexpensive router, preferred desktop, schedule queue Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Red Hat Linux, Looking Ahead, Microsoft Windows, Disk Druid, Netscape Mail, Linux Router Project, World Wide Web, Bourne Shell, Quick Browser, General Public License, Sound Blaster, Hide Help, Netscape Communicator, Print System Manager, Using Peripherals, Filter Setup Main Menu, Apache Web, Desk Guide, Linux Web, Netscape Communications Corporation, Bourne Again Shell, Getting Ready, Korn Shell, Matt Wright, Understanding the Shell New!
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