Practical Linux

by Michael Turner and M. Drew Streib

This work gears itself toward people who don't want to be burdened with techno-babble, but just want to use Linux as they would any other operating system. It covers all the bases, making use of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789722518
• ISBN13: 9780789722515
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 685 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Best UNIX Book I've Seen!

This book has repeatedly saved me when I needed information that the man pages are too arcane to provide. I used the book for practical suggestions on how to use the grep utility to search for multiple terms. And, it was the only UNIX book I could find that gave practical and meaningful suggestions about how to configure the modem via the command line. Get this book, it will save you a lot of time!

Practical, step-by-step guide

This book is one of the rare guides which is organize not by what the author knows but what are the typical problems you (the reader) have to solve. I would call it "How to.." book. Almost every time when I need to mount the disk, add the device I found exact instructions how to do it and it worked. I am not very experienced Linux user (< 2 years) and I found this book just right for me.