SUSE Linux Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise (Paperback)

by Christopher Negus (Author), Francois Caen (Author)

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Product Description
In this handy, compact guide, you’ll explore a ton of powerful SUSE Linux commands while you learn to use SUSE Linux as the experts do: from the command line. Try out more than 1,000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources. Then, apply the skills you learn from this book to use and administer desktops and servers running openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise or any other Linux distribution.

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Explore a ton of powerful SUSE Linux commands

This handy, compact guide teaches you to use SUSE Linux as the experts do: from the command line. Try out over 1000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources. Apply skills you learn from this book to use and administer desktops and servers running openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise or any other Linux distribution.

Expand your Linux expertise in these and other areas:

• Using the shell

• Finding online software

• Working with files

• Playing with music and images

• Administering file systems

• Backing up data

• Checking and managing running processes

• Accessing network resources

• Handling remote system administration

• Locking down security

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Product Details

• Paperback: 307 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (December 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470082925
• ISBN-13: 978-0470082928
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #184,083 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Book for Power Users Wanting to Extend Their Skills, December 30, 2007

By	Thomas W. Weeks "Tweeks" (San Antonio, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Hey folks... I've been an RHCE since 2000, training RHCEs since 2003, and "doing Linux" since 1996.

What I like:
The three big things that I like about Linux Toolbox are:
1) It concisely shows you how to use the Linux command line to solve many of the most common personal and administrative tasks.
2) It uses the proven "learn by doing" method to show the reader how to just "get stuff done" from the Linux command line.
3) What really sets this book apart from other "next level" type books is its well thought layout and how they organized the content in a quickly accessible way. Negus & Caen split the content out by Shell stuff, Working w/Files, Text Manipulation, Multimedia, Administration, Backups, Networking, etc.. . Well thought out and quickly useful as an on-hand reference.

So who should buy this book?
I see it being a "best fit" for two groups of people:
1) Technical users and admins who want to become more competent on the command line and be able to do ten times more work thought automation (scripting).
2) Windows power users who want to become more savvy on the Linux side (Linux power user wannabes). Especially those who need to get Linux CLI/shell proficient quickly (such as Windows sys-admins who have had Linux forced on them)

Old Timers Too:
The cool thing is that even if you've been using Linux for years (as I have), there are still useful "Oooo.. cool!" moments peppered throughout the book. Do you know how to properly (and quickly) get the most out of classic power tools like find, sed, awk, case, and tr? Are you armed with experience in all the newer über tools such as screen, dmidecode, growisofs? Do you know how to do software RAID from the command line (mdadm) or know how to build & control LVM via its command line tools? If you answered "no" to any of these.. you should check check out Linux Toolbox.

Negus and Caen have a winner here. Good job guys.

Tweeks

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very useful book, November 19, 2008

By	ckonanis (Sucre, Bolivia) - See all my reviews

I have bought " SUSE Linux Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise ", together with " OpenSUSE 11.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Bible ", both complemented each other,the first one is a concise and rapid consulting guide of commands that are so useful when your are customized to work with console enviroment, the second one give a complete guide of configuration of network services to be implemented using SUSE. Both can be reference books to teach Linux

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Expected More, December 13, 2008

By	Fred W. Hayden, Jr. "old student" (Salisbury, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book did not meet my expectations. The format used is a format that I would not have used if I were to present a book with "1000+" commands for openSUSE. I was expecting a format similar to the ones used in the "xxxfor Dummies" books; a complete list of commands with their descriptions, and a couple of examples of usage.