I was recently asked to review an Apress book on Linux Sysadmin – check it out and let me know what you think or indeed feel free to suggest books useful to you on this topic.
Ciao!
I was recently asked to review an Apress book on Linux Sysadmin – check it out and let me know what you think or indeed feel free to suggest books useful to you on this topic.
Ciao!
3 replies on “Sysadmin Book Review”
I do not like IT books. They go out of date before they are out of print. Why anyone will even bother to read them when there are tons of howto’s and video tutorials on the Net? Linux is probably better than most IT subjects because little has changed in terms if CLI administration. Howrever no book can come even close to http://www.linuxforums.org/ and http://www.tldp.org
@Yuri Domnikov Actually the book sounds really interesting. Maybe I was wrong this time 🙂
@Yuri – I take your point but books do have their place imho 🙂 If I had £1 for every forum post that was littered with inaccuracies or an outdated wiki entry or unmaintained FAQ/HOWTO… well, I’d be able to buy a lot of books!
If you buy a book you are getting text by an experienced person, proofread for technical accuracy most importantly something that can be read on the toilet without batteries.
Things are changing though, I have been hugely impressed by the quality of the Arch Linux wiki – it’s so good that other Linux distro forums frequently link to it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/
I find reading a book is easier on the eyes of course. What we need is an easy way of getting articles on an e-ink screen like a Kindle but with the usability of an Android tablet. I had a Kindle and tried solutions like Calibre but the whole experience was a bit clunky.