Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours

While this guide won't make you an expert in Linux, it will explain how to get Red Hat Linux to work and how to do basic things with it. Organized into 24 lessons that take about an hour apiece, this book helps you ensure that your system can handle Linux and walks you through the process of installing Red Hat Linux and the Xfree86 windowing system. Ball's coverage of installation is rather weak, through paying only cursory attention to this confusing process. From there, however, Ball hits his stride in detailing the ins and outs of file-system commands, shells, Internet connections (by PPP), various Internet tools, and administration. For example, in the lesson on graphics programs, Ball explores the most popular graphics program of recent memory: the GNU Image Manipulation Program, affectionately known to its users as the GIMP. Similarly, he covers the popular but cryptic Emacs in his lesson on text editing. In brief, this book introduces you to Linux and the world of Unix tools in a palatable, easy-to-follow way. --David Wall

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Very dated and thus left behind
I found this book in a cube cleanup and decided to give it a skim.

It is very dated now and I see why the person abandoned it. To give you an idea as to the age of the information; the cd is Redhat 5, the book talks about X11 window manager, using mosaic and linx, the 9600.

Overall it's ok for beginning basic commands, etc. However, you can find this information online or in newer books.





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You could learn more on your own
I wasn't happy with this book. I read it a while ago and you'd be better off spending the time just playing with linux instead of reading this dated book. :/

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Good if your installation doesn't run into problems
I used the cd to install Red Hat 5.0 and followed the step by step instructions in the book. I now have Linux up and running on a dual boot machine with no problems. The installation was straight forward, but I feel that had problems occured the book wouldn't have had enough detail to help me overcome them. An easy to read book that doesn't go into any real depth, but can get a new user up and running relatively quickly.

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good
i want a such book as this one that can help me to learn linux quickly

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A BAD BOOK. VAGUE. INCONSISTANT. WORTHLESS.
This book is a vague look at Linux that answers almost no questions and is practically useless in its mission, which is to teach newbies Linux. The auther was in a hurry to publish it and as a result is vague and misleading, skims over important issues, and fluffs off everything else.