Customer Reviews

Slackware Linux Unleashed (Unleashed)

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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.

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.

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 ;)

This book was obviously thrown together to make a buck. It is disorganized and badly written, and contains gems like the entire listing from a 'make install'. No one edited this thing; I don't think anyone even proofread it. The publisher should be ashamed.

Don't buy this. Unless something seriously has changed, the CD distributed with this book is defective-- it will not install. Period. The technical support from Sam's from this has been "download the distribution from www.slackware.com", which is not a satisfactory answer. After begging a bit they *did* send me a new disk. A shame. This is a disservice to the Slackware Linux community.

I just wanted to say that the current edition of Slackware Unleashed is updated for Slackware 7.0 and also includes a Slackware 7.0 CD.

The new version of slack is 7.1....

The contrib cd sucks though, so dont download it....