SlackWare Linux 4 Unleashed shows you how to install, configure, and manage the latest version of SlackWare Linux. The book provides expert advice on installation and configuration, programming, administration and networking. It also provides wisdom and insights on how to control some of the more difficult-to-use aspects of SlackWare, like integrating SlackWare into Microsoft networks. Everything you need to know to use Slackware to set up an Internet site is covered. SlackWare Linux 4 Unleashed will also have coverage of working with open-source databases, and will cover programming in several languages and shells in detail.
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Bao Ha is the president of Hacom Corp., a Linux-powered Internet Service Provider in Augusta, GA. He got involved with Linux in 1992, starting with the SLS distribution. In 1995, Bao wrote the Linux driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 ethernet card. He holds the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Tina Nguyen is the co-founder of Hacom Corp. Besides Linux, she has had extensive system administration experience with VMS, Unix including IRIX, Solaris, AIX, True64 Unix, and MVS/VM. She has worked in the Corporate Information Technology departments of several Fortune 100 companies, including Westinghouse, IBM and Hughes Aircraft.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Look elsewhere,
By A Customer
This review is from: Slackware Linux Unleashed (Unleashed) (Paperback)
In one word: BOO!. The cover and editor/publisher description are very misleading. If the phrase in detail means look in the man pages then it the descriptions would be correct. This book professes to cover in detail much but delivers little. For instance, it claims to describe configuring window managers such as kde and fvwm. It shows a screen shot and says refer to the info/man pages for how to configure them. This style of coverage is consistent throughout the book. Instead of showing page after page of output from the make command when compiling packages the space could have been put to use providing the details promised. I would have returned this book had I not been so stupid as to remove the cd for safekeeping. Where the book does give some details it is often incorrect. An example is stating the swap partition limit is 64M when it is 127. Terms are frequently misused such as stating multithreading is accomplished with the fork call. Much promise, little value.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
look for another book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Slackware Linux Unleashed (Unleashed) (Paperback)
this book is basicly a print ot of the man pages, the slackware cd thats comes with this book is corroupt, and there lots of formatting problems. for instance html tags how up in the syntax descriptions of sed commands. dont buy this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This Book Almost Defines 'Poor Quality',
By Benjamin Tillman (Newcastle, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Slackware Linux Unleashed (Unleashed) (Paperback)
First I'd like to say this book has an unbelievable number of mistakes and inconsistencies throughout it, in fact, I believe this book was based on a previous version of slackware Linux and quickly (and poorly) renamed and rewritten for the current version.I am quite new to Linux, and was recommended slackware Linux, not for its ease of installation/use but for its security and the learning curve it creates while trying to learn the Linux system. I decided to purchase this book the same time I bought the slackware boxed set. Quite honestly, I've turned to the man pages and README files more than I've turned to this book, and when necessary to refer to the book, I've found it to be with error (eg. bad code) and rarely reliable. If you wish to properly learn Linux, this book is the wrong way about it. I would almost recommend ANY other Linux book.. or the man pages ;)
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