Linux Unleashed

by David Pitts and Bill Ball

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672316889
• ISBN13: 9780672316883
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 1468 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Most Balanced Linux Book Created

I believe that this book is perfect for learning everything about linux. I know when i bought it i was a little confused...well a lot, but now i understand it much better. It takes time, you must use linux a lot and when you come up with problems, look them up in the book. The more you look up, the more you will understand about linux. Basically i'm saying the more problems you have with your linux console, the better you will be with linux (because you have used this book to help you solve your problem).

If you have Red Hat, Caldera, or Debian....

....this is the book for you. It provides the locations of files and important documents. Overall coverage of just about everything you could ever want in a book. If you don't use Red Hat, Caldera, or Debian then this isn't the book for you; but if you do, it's the ultimate reference.

Extraordinary amount of topics covered

I am an intermediate Linux user, and firmly believe that if you had to buy only one Linux book, this would make a great choice. I was very happy to see the variations between the Red Hat, Cladera, and Debian distributions being discussed. This book really covers an amazing amount of topics. For example, the basics of the languages C, C++, Perl, gawk. Tcl, Python, and Java are mentioned. Of course, the material would never cover any of them in depth, but the author's attempt at including so many was surprising. I believe that if I had a year to sit down and understand all of the contents in this book (almost 1500 pages) I would truly understand how to use Linux.