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"Whilst there does seem to be a trend amongst many publishers to deliver ever more comprehensive titles, cramming details of almost every command-line switch and GUI option across a huge range of tools and packages, O'Reilly can always be relied upon to publish works that deal concisely with one aspecty of GNU/Linux or excel in offering a psecific functionality. Linux Pocket Guide is exemplary in this respect, cleverly avoiding the unnecessary bloat associated with titles that share the same subject matter - Fedora Linux. Indeed, this highly portable volume manages to kill two birds with one stone, funcitoning both as handy quick reference and an essential introduction to basic everyday tooks and commands. And though Fedora specifics such as desktop and package managerment are covered in some detail, nearly all of the material here could well be applied to almost any distro." Martin Howse, Linux User and Developer, Issue 40 "Can't memorise man pages? This is for you." Linux Format, Oct (top stuff award)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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So many books are thick, wordy, and conceal their nuggets of wisdom, but not this one. It's not big, so you won't find full details on (eg) all of the many Linux email clients - but they get a mention.
Works well for me (ex BSD 4.x sysop in the 1980s) as well as friends with no previous knowledge of operating systems. It's the examples that are such a help - most of the things we've needed to do are covered with a brief, relevant example. We use it with Ubuntu mainly - Debian distros are not identical to Fedora but we've not seen a problem - both are Linux and conform to the POSIX standard.
Reading it cover-to-cover is logical, informative, and highly recommended. Three times, and the info is starting to stick..... Then keep it handy to look things up when you need them! Highly recommended.
Works well for me (ex BSD 4.x sysop in the 1980s) as well as friends with no previous knowledge of operating systems. It's the examples that are such a help - most of the things we've needed to do are covered with a brief, relevant example. We use it with Ubuntu mainly - Debian distros are not identical to Fedora but we've not seen a problem - both are Linux and conform to the POSIX standard.
Reading it cover-to-cover is logical, informative, and highly recommended. Three times, and the info is starting to stick..... Then keep it handy to look things up when you need them! Highly recommended.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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The book is the perfect pocket guide to Linux. Never mind the Fedora slant. This book will introduce you to all the important commands and if you want to take anything further O'Reilly's "Linux in a Nutshell" is the perfect companion.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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I don't envy Mr Barrett's task with this book. Everybody has a slightly different wishlist of commands to go in a book like this; it's impossible to please everybody. That said, I think he's got it about as close to perfection as possible. This book has an incredible amount of useful info in a usefully small volume. If like me you can normally remember the command, but always struggle to remember the right option (which one do you add to TAR for BZ2 files?) this book is a godsend.
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must-have reference
As a long time windows user looking at linuxthis guide is invaluable. If you understand what a cmd line can do then this reference guide will quickly remind you of what the keyword... Read more
Published 3 months ago by CodeMonkey
On Point
This is a very good pocket reference for Linux. Contains all I needed. The book is short and brief with relevant information, very satisfied.
Published 4 months ago by Folarin
Book
Good book which I needed at time for college course I was doing.
Probably dated now however, but if author has anything recent would be worth taking a look!
Probably dated now however, but if author has anything recent would be worth taking a look!
Published 6 months ago by HenryLafferty
Just Perfect
Excellent little book. Even though it's a reference book, I've read it from start to end. But that's just me, I wanted to try all the commands. Read more
Published 8 months ago by bioShark
Good book
Bought this book to help me learn more about the Linux terminal for a university degree,
taught me alot and made me understand key concepts alot more clear.
taught me alot and made me understand key concepts alot more clear.
Published 13 months ago by Draken
good layout for novices
Grouping the commands in terms of operations like file operations, text manipulation etc means you can reference a command before you know what it is unlike books that reference... Read more
Published 14 months ago by L. Trodd
Very good Linux reference book
I'm new to Linux. I recently purchased Fedora 14 Linux, 4-disks DVD Installation and Reference Set and it comes with plenty of PDF books for all levels of users but I was looking... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Jimmy K.
What the Grep?
I was kind of hoping for a short guide to some of the more esoteric elements of Linux, a quick guide on the things I wanted to know in order to become a better user, an... Read more
Published 15 months ago by the-elusive-thnith
Into LINUX then you need this Book.
I became fascinated by Linux a few years ago, and for me you improved on my Linux skills i needed a no nonsense Book that was easy to read and understand. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ivanhoe
Reference guide, but not an easy introduction
The opening chapter of the book offers this guide as both an introduction to Linux and a quick reference guide. I think it is very effective at the latter. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Wimbledog
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