Amazon.co.uk Review
For those willing to exchange the glossiness of mass-market operating systems for better performance and greater flexibility Linux is an excellent choice. In
Linux Companion for System Administrators Jochen Hein has produced a highly readable treatise on this operating system's design and capabilities.
Generally Hein focuses on characteristics that all versions of Linux have in common and highlights differences where appropriate. He starts with core aspects of Linux (such as the file system and the boot process) before moving on to ancillary programs and capabilities. (His coverage of multiple-language capabilities is especially good.) Readers also will find plenty of information on networking. The book covers all aspects of TCP/IP implementation and documentation of many network applications.
The main shortcoming in Linux Companion for System Administrators is the absence of specific procedures. You'll find plenty of tables and option lists as well as prose that's clear despite the fact that it's translated from German, but there's very little explicit how-to information. If that's what you need you'll want to supplement this book with a more basic text. --David Wall
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
A completely updated and extended version of this highly regarded guide to the Linux OS for network and systems managers.
This book complements the two other two key Linux titles that we have published - Kofler 2e is the general guide for beginners, and Beck (3e) is for kernelhackers. This book sits between the two. It is aimed at system administrators and contains a wealth of information about running a system or network under the Linux OS.
The book is divided into two sections for ease of use and shows how a Linux system might be configured to be used by a wide range of different users. the first section describes the Linux operating system in detail, covering basic system configuration and administration, whilst the second section covers Linux networking and Internet connectivity.
This new edition is fully updated to reflect the latest versions of the commercial Linux applications, and the latest kernel release (2.4) which is expected to be released in January 2000.
The first edition of the book has sold over 12000cc in its first year and has received excellent reviews on Amazon - they suggest that the only reason that it is not regarded as a classic is the slightly stilted translation, which we will be addressing in this edition.
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