- Paperback: 812 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (8 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596002084
- ISBN-13: 978-0596002084
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.3 x 4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,765,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For every Linux consultant who goes to job sites with a four-pound computer and 15 pounds of books, O'Reilly & Associates has a solution: The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf. It's a searchable collection of six books on the subject of the Linux operating system and its role as a platform for Web sites. The six included books are:
- Running Linux, Third Edition
- Linux in a Nutshell, Third Edition
- CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition
- Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
- MySQL & mSQL
- Programming the Perl DBI
Admittedly a CD-ROM is not as easy to read as a book but all the information is here, it weighs nothing and you save about two-thirds of what you'd spend to buy the six books separately.
Though O'Reilly deserves praise for amalgamating related books in a compact form, they need to improve the search utility that ties them all together. As it stands the unified search feature is a Java applet that does full-text searches on all six books. Unfortunately the results of a typical search aren't well formatted and not specific enough. The search utility would be much more useful if the books' contents were more finely chopped. Using the cross-book searching in the combined index (in which you select the initial letter of the term you want and scan or search through a list of indexed terms from all the books) is more useful and takes you to the general vicinity of where you want to be. Most of the time you'll know which of the six books contains the answer you want, so you can scan that book's index individually. --David Wall
Jon Homan, Unix Review, Dec 2001
Regardless of which Linux flavor you run, you’ll find something here that will make you wonder how you ever lived without it.
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An Excellent Reference
4 Mar 2003
Format:Paperback
Putting aside the CD-Roms, the alpha layout of the book itself is wonderful and just what I was looking for. Very concise and and again the book itself is worth the money. It is made to be used as a resource and a reference. I wish other books were laid out this way. After spending hrs and hrs looking thru books I finally found my first choice.
The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf
28 April 2003
Format:Paperback
The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf gave me everything I needed right at my finger tips. If there was only one major reason that you should buy this Bookshelf it would be the search capabilities alone. This Bookshelf comes with the ability to search all 6 books at once for any subject you want. This was the first type of CD Bookshelf that I have ordered. If it is possible I will only buy CD Bookshelves from now on.
Sean Seely
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