Introduction to UNIX/Linux [With DVD-ROM]

by Christopher Diaz

The UNIX system has steadily gained in popularity over the years. Many businesses and educational institutions as well as individuals have begun using UNIX/Linux because of its power, stability,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584504498
• ISBN13: 9781584504498
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Charles River Media
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A little bit of everything

As the title suggests, this is an introduction book, it shows you around the Unix/Linux system, this is not a book on Unix architecture or kernel features etc in-depth topics.

Excellent book.

Very complete book, just What I need, the delivery was very fast. Thank you!!

Good Basic Introduction

This book is an excellent overall view of the Unix/Linux operating system environment. The book starts with a short bit of history about Unix/Linux and points out that it is growing in popularity because it is more reliable, faster, and cheaper than the alternative offerings. The book is kind of a basic introduction at the command line level. While it does talk a bit about the KDE and Gnome GUIs, it's oriented to command line, and vi and traditional Unix stuff. There are three other comments I'd make about the book. 1. As with most such books it tells you that you can set up your system to dual boot so that you can run with Linux when you want and Windows when you want. If you're a beginner, don't. Set up Linux on a separate machine so you don't have to try to set up all this stuff and make it work. The book includes a Fedora (used to be Red Hat) core, complete with instructions on how to install it. All you need to make it work is a 400MHz Pentium II with 3 GB of disk. I bought such a system at a thrift shop recently for $55. The effort of dual booting, multiple partitions is well worth $55. 2. This book does not talk about applications. If you want to run Star Office or any of the many other applications you'll need another book or spend some time on the web. The Fedora core is certainly capable of running them, they just aren't part of this book. 3. If you are a MAC OS X user, you already have Linux. All you need to start using Linux as an operating system is to start typing.