http://www.osnews.com/story/1178/Book_Review_MultiTool_Linux Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:59:57 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? The first chapters do seem useful, so the question then is: Is there a book that talks about the stuff from the first half, without the less useful second half?

Also, how in-depth is the first half, is it could enough for someone who has never looked at setting up samba, email, or ip masquerading before? Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? You can always buy the book and only use the first half, there is no one stopping you from that. As for the second half, it may be a bit useful to completely clueless users, so it has its usefulness.

>Also, how in-depth is the first half

It is pretty much, step by step. Check the PDF I link. You will see how the style-writting looks like. Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? for hundreds of 'recipes' of specific solutions to specific problems Linux users (as opposed to administrators) encounter every day. The author uses Debian but someone with moderate knowledge can use use the directions on any distribution (or even Win32 with Cygwin). Fri, 07 Jun 2002 18:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? but, what's KWord gotta do with this book? :-D Sat, 08 Jun 2002 05:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? This is just the generic icon we use for book reviews, office suites and the like. Sat, 08 Jun 2002 06:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? was just kidding :-)

(Besides, I didn't know modern books used scrolls and ink feather pens...) Sat, 08 Jun 2002 09:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? They've done so for decades! They still do. Get with the times. Sun, 09 Jun 2002 13:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments