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This is probably one of the best books for a newbie (like me) to Linux. The author explains in a simple non-cryptic fashion and the book covers everything that you ought to know about Linux to start you off.Thanks to the book, I now have a full-fledged personal server running in my office off an old PII machine.Overall, an excellent book. I highly reccommend it to anyone who wishes to start off on Linux and knows nothing about it.
Red Hat Linux 7

A well written book. A great way to learn shell scripting. Relevant and useful examples throughout the book (downloadable code).
Oracle Shell Scripting Linux

The FURminator is an excellent tool to help reduce shedding. It works great for my black lab, AND for my cats! I am amazed at how much fur I can get out of their coats with the FURminator! When I say to my dog that we are going to “FURminate” her, she wags her tail and runs to be let outside!
Linux System Administration White

I really enjoyed “The Help” – great fictional characters give an interesting insight into how real people — black and white — lived their lives during the civil rights movement. I read this for book club & it was an excellent book for promoting discussion as well. Thoroughly enjoyable!
Linux Universe Third Edition

I’m sure I’ll be duplicating some of the reviews, but I had to add my love of these books. I, like so many, thought these were books for teenagers and ignored the series completely for the longest time. My friend said she started to read them and encouraged me to try the first one just to see. We both have kids in elementary school so we aren’t the “target audience”, although I truly believe these books aren’t YA. (Stephenie even said herself that the first one was never written that way, it is just the genre they got put into.)

So, I began reading, and began falling in love with this story. There are a few words that get repeated too often and there are even typos here and there, but it didn’t matter. You get to step into another world and learn all about these wonderful characters with Stephenie’s fantastic descriptions. And you literally feel the passion going on between them!

I’ve seen the first movie, but will not see any more. There is just no comparison since there is soooo much more in the books. I have read all four books (and the Midnight Sun draft online) and would say Twilight is my favorite of the published ones in this series. But I love each one since it continues the story. It will be hard to find something better, but I hope to find other books as good.
Linux System Administration Unleashed

Paid for 3. Only one still works after 1 week of use.
Other 2 were junk.
Red Hat Linux Deluxe

The interface is completely changed. Auto-formatting of captions and citations is hopelessly broken and non-functional. Styles do not stay – Word reverts to default no matter how many times you change it. Randomly reformats document to new text/spacing/alignment. Text flow around images hopeless broken and non-functional.

Basically – it all looks different, nothing works, and there appears to be no hope if getting it fixed any time soon. Save your money and sanity, buy an older version such as 2003, download the free converter so you can read documents from people who have unfortunately “upgraded” to 2007, and wait until the next release. Or two. Or three. Or for a competitor to come out with a functional word processor.

Basically – this is the most useless suite of applications I’ve ever had the misfortune of owning. Avoid it.
CramSession s SAIR Linux

Good upgrade for older version of MS Office. I would like upgrade options, like MS Publisher as a add-on.
Learn Red Hat Linux

Our office has made a concerted decision to gradually move into Linux. And this is the best book not only for newbies to jump start on the learning curve, but also for those old-hands to refresh their knowledge.

One of the more significant characteristics of this excellent book is that the author wrote it like a diary so that you can install and run the next generation OS with little or no effort, but he also very skillfully interposed the plain English writing with important advanced concepts. So skillful that you may be fooled into believing yourself to have become an overnight Linux expert! But seriously, this book can at least make you walk and talk like a Linux geek in a hurry.

Linux is rapidly evolving. Kernel 2.4 and KDE 2.0 are coming out soon. Both will cause very significant changes in the Linux environment. Everything you have learned now probably will have to be updated in the very near future. Thus, there is no need to get into those thick and supposedly advanced Linux books at the present time. This for dummies book is just right for everyone, including, of course, you and me.
Corel Linux for Dummies