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SUSE Linux10 Bible

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- Suse 10.0 bible
I feel as though i have wasted money and time with this book, i installed suse 3mths ago for the first time, and did so without the book which i bought 2 months into suse use. As a genuine beginner with an iq of 144 i have found this book of no help and i payed 26 pounds for it from PC world, i have now had to order 2 other suse books in an attempt to solve the few probs i have with suse like samba printer share, some media wont stream (only some) and why firefox has flash but not konquer? also help with installing nvidia drivers newer than the ones available through yast. The dvd is virtually identicle to oss and you still have to compile decss to play videos. All in all very disapointing and i was thrilled coming home with it.
Nick

Rating:

- Leaves much to be desired
Particularly lengthy book. Repetitive to the point of confusion. And with several contradictions as to its "spirit".

For example, it mentions just in passing the scenario where the computer doesn't have adequate capabilities for running the YaST graphical interface. In that case, SUSE linux will revert to a cumbersome text based installation interface which is considerably more painful than -i presume- YaST. It takes a brief google search to realize the large numbers of users who run into the problem. Yet, the 1000-page book provides no help. In case case you are a novice, you have to be a lucky one in order to be able to install relying on this book. Because the text version is not straightforward for the unlucky novice who gets treated with it. I am one of those.

Yet, when the authors decide to talk about partitions, they assume that everything has been installed successfully and then they start describing partitioning using "fdisk". In that case, they present something that no novice would ever use once successfully installing in the first place. Who is this book's target audience, after all? Those who wouldn't need help installing with the considerably less accomodating text version, or those who will mess with partitions using fdisk?

Furthermore, they devote three lines as to the introduction of the concept of mounting. Very clumsy explanation of the concept, with no examples whatsoever. Yet, they devote a long paragraph to suggest that you shouldn't pick your name or that of your spouse as your password.

And several other inconsistencies of that sort. These inconsistencies make it a rather hard book with nonnegligible holes for a novice, yet an unnecessary long one for the experienced user.

Rating:

- Great for budding admins & home networking geeks
This is not a book for complete beginners. The reason is that applications are not covered, and the book is sorely lacking the step-by-step guides to enable multimedia features, nvidia drivers, java, flash, etc - you know, the first things you need to do anyway. So don't buy this to your grandma. This is why I give 4, not 5 stars.

Instead, this is a great book for someone with some Linux experience. The emphasis of the book is on the Command Line, Network services (servers) and some small enterprise needs. With each topic, the authors always first explain how it is done from the command line, and after that, with Yast (SUSE's 'Control Center'). They also explain technical concepts quite well - for example when discussing DHCP, they take several pages to explain what is really happening in the network, then start with configuration examples.

I loved this book, I actually read all of it. After 3 years of Mandrake/Mandriva desktop use, I think this is a perfect book for my SUSE transition. I have learned a load of concepts and tricks from it. And a surprisingly large proportion of the material is applicable to any Linux distribution. With it's price and 800 pages, it's good bang for the buck!

PS. The DVD included is SUSE Professional, not OpenSUSE.

Rating:

- An excellent book for SuSE Linux.
The book of Justin Davies presents very clearly
the SUSE Linux 10.
It is understable and it guides the reader to learn
to use and exploit the SuSE Linux.
I recommend the book to all
the Amazon customers,
interested in learning SUSE Linux
and to use the excellent distribution of SUSE
Linux that the book has in DVD,
in their business.
Personally, I use both the SUSE Linux and the Fedora
Red-Hat one, in my academic and research work.
Both are of supreme quality and fully compatible at the
binary level. I installed the SUSE distribution
from the offered DVD with the book,
and it runs perfectly!

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