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Building Clustered Linux Systems

Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants will probably top the list for the books I read in 2010 (3 months left, so come on authors, wow me!). It is evident that Gruen painstakingly researched life in the 1930’s circuis, and her hard work paid off with a nice slice of Americana. The book’s plot kept me turning pages late into the night.

Others have complained about the book’s vulgarity, and I’ll admit that several scenes were a bit too vulgar for my taste, but the subject is the depression-era circus, not nursery school. While not necessarily pleasant, it was probably befitting the subject matter.

The greatest praise I’ll give Gruen was in her ending. The fiction-literature authors of the last decade seem to be of the notion that a depressing ending makes for good literature. I would like to remind these authors that I read fiction as an escape from reality, not as a desire to have more of it. To Gruen’s credit, she reached for the best ending possible, and she nailed it! I hope the rest of her books are as good as this one!

Intrusion Detection für Linux

I was pleasant suprised, then delighted, to find that this was NOT the usual, repellently cutesy Dummies book, but a very complete, straighforward guide to SuSE Linux 10. Additionally, it’s an A+ book for those who may be thinking about Linux but have been frustrated by their attempts to learn the basics and/or install one of the popular distributions unaided. Barkakati respects the reader’s intelligence, but he doesn’t assume too much. He starts easy and doesn’t leap suddenly onto a higher level of technical complexity, as many authors of computer books do. A common complaint among those who dip a toe into Linux is that it’s a technical nightmare. Barkakati does an excellent job of introducing new users to the world of the command line. As operating systems and applications have evolved, we’ve lost the best features of the DOS command line and text-based programs such as WordStar — namely, power and speed. Barkakati gives the reader a gentle introduction to that “closer to the computer” world.
SUSE Linux 10 For

Very similiar in style to “Running Linux” by O’reilly (3rd edition) – In fact, these two books are complementary. I recommend buying both (I did). Many topics in one are not in the other. Together the make a very good and complete set.

They both share the same writing style – they cut right to the point, tell you exactly what you need to know and cover a lot of topics at a good level of expertise. If you know computers then these books are fine – you won’t be wasting your time on general issues (like what a mouse does). If you want to configure SAMBA – Boom, done. If you want to set up lilo, boom, done. If you aren’t a reasonable computer user, then you shouldn’t be starting with linux.

If you know NT or a little linux, then these two books will cover almost everything just fine. The only thing they don’t do is give specific references to each and every shell command or utility. You get a good overview of the important ones, and the man pages will be fine after that, but you could always buy a shell/programming reference.
LINUX Second Edition Installation

I have only had the opportunity to use some of the features in this product, but what I have used is top notch. It saves a lot of typing time when you can type a heading and then just roll your mouse pointer over the style you want without having to highlight or retype your words. It’s everything I thought it could be and more. I can’t wait to explore all the other features that will save me time and make me more productive.
Caldera Open Linux Bible

Amazing series. Love love love the Twilight Saga. Romantic, fun, edge-of-your-seat read. I could not put these down until I finished all 4 books!
It enters Linux Kindle

Linux Format

This is the fourth pedometer I’ve had. One got lost, another fell into the toilet, and none would come close to counting the steps in the house with carpeting. I like the feature where it automatically sets to zero for each day. I’m glad I read the reviews before purchasing from Amazon because the one negative seemed to be the clip not anchoring strongly enough and thus it was easy to lose. Sure enough, the first day I was wearing it around the house it came unclipped. Fortunately the next day the safety leash I ordered arrived and twice it has kept the pedometer from dropping unexpectedly. The lack of a strong clip is the only reason I gave it four stars.
Aurora SPARC Linux

I just started this book and right off the bat I have a major complaint. Now understand I’m a newbie to Red Hat Linux. Most newbies dual boot from one hard drive to either Windows or Linux. This book offers absolutely no info on partitioning your HD to accommadate two operating systems. So beginners beware. I had to purchase “Red Hat Linux 9 in 24 hours” to walk me through the setup. Wrox Press is usually more thorough, especially with their “beginner” books.
Beginning Red Hat Linux

This really takes the hair off the cat. I have other brushes but this is the only one I use now. I go outside and get them in the yard and let the hair blow away.
IE Linux Cert 2004