October 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1040 pages
33h 24m
English
I was quite excited to preview this Linux-only edition of the UNIX® System Administration Handbook. The third edition of USAH included coverage of Red Hat Linux, but it was only one of four very different variants of UNIX. This version of the book covers several major Linux distributions and omits most of the material that’s not relevant to Linux. I was curious to see how much of a difference it would make.
A lot, it turns out. Linux distributions draw from a common pool of open-source software, so they’re far more similar to one another than are other versions of UNIX. As a result, the text seems to have become considerably more specific. Instead of suggesting various ways your system might behave, the authors ...
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