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Book:		SUSE Linux
Subject:		Pretty good read overall
Date:		2006-10-16 21:54:15
From:		Anonymous Reader

Rating: I purchased this book as someone that is very familiar with Red Hat/Fedora based operating systems that wanted to get acquainted with how Suse Linux differs and is similar. For the most part the book does a decent job of this. For someone that has been doing linux for quite some time the book may seem very basic at times. It has the sections on using vi and doing a chmod and such. The sections are very well done and explained. I enjoyed the author's humor for the most part. It keeps things light and moving along so that was good to have in there. What this book really does is point you where to go in YAST for the most part and how to make full use of it. If you are looking on detailed descriptions on how to administer a Suse Linux server this is not your book. It gives you means to apply your knowledge to Suse Linux but does not necessarily give you said knowledge. I was a little disappointed in the coverage of AppArmor and Xen as those were big reasons I got the book. Each only gets about five or six pages a piece. What was there was good. There just needs to be more. So I think this book's sweetspot is for people that are quite new to Linux and to Suse as well. If you are in this category then I think this book will be an awesome resource for you. If you are a seasoned vet then you probably get most of what you need online or from within the documentation included in the Suse distro. Overall, pretty well done. More depth is very needed in future versions.