Red Hat Linux Unleashed [Paperback]

Kamran Husain (Author), Timothy, Phd Parker (Author), Tim Parker (Author)

Book Description

Series: Unleashed | Publication Date: June 1996

Programmers, users, and system administrators will find this a must have book for operating the Linux environment. Everything from installation and configuration to advanced programming and administration techniques is covered in this valuable reference.
-- Teaches editing, typesetting, and more
-- Includes coverage of PPP, TCP/IP, networking, and setting up an Internet site
-- CD-ROM includes source code from the book and powerful utilities

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Programmers, users, and system administrators will find this a must have book for operating the Linux environment. Everything from installation and configuration to advanced programming and administration techniques is covered in this valuable reference. - Teaches editing, typesetting, and more

- Includes coverage of PPP, TCP/IP, networking, and setting up an Internet site

- CD-ROM includes source code from the book and powerful utilities

Product Details

• Paperback: 1176 pages
• Publisher: Sams; Bk&CD-Rom edition (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672309629
• ISBN-13: 978-0672309625
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,204,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Amazing..., August 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Hat Linux Unleashed (Paperback)

...how such a LARGE book can contain so LITTLE useful information. Pp. 1-45 are a pretty good guide to installing the distribution, but the rest is such a waste I put it in the trash to save shelf space.

For an equally dated, but far more informative guide, try out Butzen and Hilton's _The Linux Network_.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too many cooks..., October 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Hat Linux Unleashed (Paperback)

This book makes a good starting point for installing RedHat. However, this book lacks a cohesive thread. Each chapter or unit appears to have been written by a different author or group of authors. Lots of redundencies occur that wouldn't if the book had been written by one person or one group of people instead of many and then edited.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Well written but dated., October 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Hat Linux Unleashed (Paperback)

As noted by other reviewers; this book has good introductory info, but it is dated. The newest versions of Red Hat (RH) Linux have made leaps and bounds in package/network/kernel management. Those upgrades are covered better in books like "LINUX Network Toolkit" by Paul Sery, than in this book (which supposedly focusses on RH software).