

Paperback: 752 pages
Publisher: Cengage Learning; 4 edition (February 23, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1305107160
ISBN-13: 978-1305107168
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 1.7 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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The content itself was acceptable, considering it's battling the constant updates to software, and some of it is already out-of-date. When following through, you have to be aware that your installation of Fedora (the distro that it uses) may differ slightly from what's in the book. However, the most egregious thing I found was that there were several typos throughout the book, particularly within the end of chapter review questions and exercises (and I'm about half way through). These typos included the actual Linux commands themselves, and where a) it focuses heavily on the command-line interface and b) there's no easy way to check the answers to the review questions without further access to the Instructor Site (sold separately of course), it was frustrating to identify answers to questions and I had to further research on the 'net to find out whether I was wrong, or the book was. If anyone has the book and wants examples, check out Project 3-2, Step 9, or Chapter 5 review Questions, Question 20.It does rush through a few small things, while seemingly spending too much time on others, but it's difficult to find a technical book that balances this well. Overall it was ok, and it was required for my course, but in my opinion it's not worth the price and if I was self-studying and had a choice, i would have picked something else.
This book was a great help for my class. I plan on keeping it and going through the assignments that are in it, that we did not cover in class.
Exactly the same as in the book store for much less. Factory new shrink wrapped.
Great to start with Linux, but little confusing
Dull; but it gets the job done.
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