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Title: Debian Gnu/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen, Ossama Othman ISBN: 0-7357-0914-9 Publisher: Macmillan Computer Pub Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great way to get started with Debian
Comment: New Riders is an upstart publisher of technical books, and their creation are cut above the rest, and of about the same quality of writing, and editorial level as O'Reilly books. This book is a very nice book and CD combo, which will get you started with the free, and volunteer maintained distribution of Linux. Debian is especially notable for its package system, which allows easy, and seemless installation of new packages, or update of already installed ones over the network, and internet. (So you get the freshest possible versions from the debian site, or its mirrors.) This book not only describes all that is necessary to make a competent, and well tought out installation of Debian Linux system on your PC, but also gives enough basic usage instructions to allow new users to get up and running, and to be able to get around. Highly advised if you need a good introduction to Linux, or if you want a distribution, with good installation manual.
Rating: 2
Summary: Lacking in substance
Comment: Once I got the defective CD replaced by New Riders (something they were very quick about btw) I was able to get Debian installed with few problems. However, once it was in I found the book fairly useless, as it's coverage of many topics (such as getting XFree86 running) left me reaching for my copy of _Running Linux_. To make matters worse the book was also light on helping explain those aspects of the distribution that were peculiar to Debain. Where's the discussion of apt? I'd easily recommend one of the other Debain books over this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unparalleled Brilliance
Comment: The work of Othman never disappoints. Staggering in width and sheer masculine bulk, he unpacks the most abstruse of technical concepts while swimming Boricuan waters and rescuing Kosovar refugees in his spare time. Othman is a boon to all of us in need of insight, wit and utter fabulousness. Read him to reach nirvana.
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Title: Debian GNU/Linux Bible by Steve Hunger ISBN: 0764547100 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed by Mario Camou, Aaron Van Couwenberghe, John Goerzen ISBN: 0672317001 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 28 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Installing Debian GNU/Linux (Other Sams) by Thomas Down ISBN: 0672317451 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 13 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Learning Debian Gnu/Linux by Bill McCarty ISBN: B00005R099 Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use by Michael Stutz ISBN: 1886411484 Publisher: No Starch Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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