Customer Reviews

Red Hat® Linux® 6 in Small Business

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I've spent months wading through various Linux books and documentation trying to set up a basic multifunction Linux server. This book gave me all the answers. It clearly guides you through all the required set up without presuming any previous knowledge. I really can't recommend this book highly enough. I achieved in one evening with this book a fully working server with all the bells and whistles. Brilliant.

This book is great - answers many questions on setting up a Linux internal (home) network. Its up-to-date and includes the authors own network example. A definite plus!

The book offers some moderate help for Linux admins, but really fails to do either of the following well: 1) Explain terms and commands in an easy to understand method 2) Take advanced routines and make them work--the ip proxy example doesn't work with my version of RH.

This book is very hard to read - it needs a good editor to clean it up. The grammar is horrible - many sentences have words missing or words used incorrectly making it a hard read for anybody. Since this is a computer book and literary expectations are usually low enough I should instead focus on the content. There are many better books on configuring Linux. I'm sure the author has competent Linux skills but like the poor writing, the presentation of those skills is lacking. This book is a blackeye for any publisher that would allow something like this to escape editing.