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Title: Hands-On Linux: Featuring Caldera Openlinux Lite, Netscape Navigator Gold, and Netscape Fasttrack Server on Two Cds by Mark G. Sobell, Linus Torvalds ISBN: 0201325691 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.67

Rating: 4
Summary: A good addition to any LINUX library
Comment: It's probably not possible to write "complete" book on Linux, because the OS is still new and rapidly evolving, both technically and as a commodity in the computing market. Sobell's book doesn't cover everything, but the topics he does cover are well presented, clearly written and often cross-referenced in the text itself, which save a lot of frantic paging around to find a forgotten detail.

Sobell focuses on basic Linux programming and development, rather than installation, setup, hardware, etc., so his book makes a good companion volume to the "sysadmin" handbooks on the market, which often come up short on details about the OS language and utilities.

Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent for intermediate and beginners
Comment: This is an excellent book. It really helped me once i had Linux installed. Of course if you are still struggling with getting Linux installed then look elsewhere. Overall an Excellent buy. Yet the software bundle is a little lacking. The software bundled doesnt really demonstrate the free software capabilities of Linux considering most of it is on a 90 day evaulation period.

Rating: 1
Summary: Don't bother if you'r installing
Comment: Installing Linux and all its modularized parts is deeply confusing. This book does not help in the least, and I don't understand why Caldera would put it on the shelves with a CD in the back.

For example, the most important reconfiguration item available is called LISA, and it does not appear in the index.