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Administer Any Linux Distribution with Ease Fully updated for the most current Linux distributions,style color: black Linux Administration: A Beginner’s Guide,Fifth Edition,em span stylecolor: black shows you how to set up, maintain, and troubleshoot Linux on a single server or an entire network. Get full details on granting user rights and permissions, configuring software and hardware, providing Internet and intranet services, and customizing Linux kernel 2.6. You… More >>
Linux Administration : A Beginner’s Guide, Fifth Edition
Tags: Administration, Beginner's, Edition., Fifth, Guide, Linux
If you are familiar with Linux or Unix and want to start some network services, this book is a solid introduction. As the title says, this book is for beginners, but the author does not assume that means sausage. He did a good job of selecting basic tasks, and each of them has the commands, file locations and basic configurations. Other useful books GUI is invoked or used twice the number of pages to go into detail too much in some sections and not enough on others. This book is exactly what it says, a guide to help beginners get started with Linux servers and / or the integration of Linux into an existing network NT.
Rating: 5 / 5
In short, a great book to start. While you can get books that are filled with a particular topic (such as DNS and BIND by O’Reilly), this book offers plenty of coverage throughout. I fully intend to use as reference.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have other books on Linux and I found this book seemed to have the right combination of overview and detail for the new admin. Other books in more detail a second book would be great, but this is the book to start.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is a solid introduction for those who know their way around computers and operating systems in general. It’s nice to find books that do not treat you like sausage or books full techincally go so deep, but very little. . .
this book as a lot of similarities between Linux and NT, including some very nice network diagrams showing how a network would be NT Server-wise, compared with a network of Linux.
general it was a great book for introductory level. My main recommendations for everyone.
Rating: 5 / 5
As a web developer, I decided to take this book along with running Linux from O’Reilly to get at least a basic knowledge conecpts different problems, concerns, etc, that anyone wanting to create a good website (and safe) is knowledge must.
Between the two, I found this book much more useful because it addresses the basic concepts of Linux (for me important) and management concerns, security issues and the principles that every manager needs to understand and follow .
works well, the writer’s style is great and I read the whole thing for a course of four days. After reading it and do further research on the internet, I realize that Steve has covered approximately 80% of what many authors write about with regard to ensuring a single server. The book begins
easy and it gets pretty deep, so if you are a newbie (like me) you should at least have the capability of computers, or a strong desire to learn. If this is the case, it is a great reference book that I have no doubt continue to use Linux to explore further.
Rating: 5 / 5