J_K9 @ Linux

Book: Linux Annoyances For Geeks

June 16, 2006 on 12:11 pm | In Linux, Books |

I just read the Slashdot review, and it sounds like a funny, interesting book to read! Another to add to my ever-growing list

Here’s a quick description:

…there aren’t that many books that really deal with the things that are annoyances, because the annoyances usually come from the late phone calls or the unanswered emails on a list. That’s what this book is supposed to be for.

In reading this book, I caught myself nodding a lot. Not to sleep, mind you, but the, “I’ve seen that before” nod.

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One of the things I liked most about this book was the fact that the chapters aren’t named for the solutions; they are named by the problems. So when you’re having a problem, you can find the solution.

Overall, this book meets the criteria for being next to my monitor, for quick reference in helping people out (including the worst one, me!). I haven’t had the opportunity to use it’s contents yet for Ubuntu, but since the book’s solutions include Debian, they should work fine. As the author says in the preface, “The solutions are designed for three of the more prominent Linux distributions: Fedora Core, SUSE, and Debian.” It would be interesting to see how it does with the Mandriva distribution.

In the Linux world, there are those that read and there are those that bleed. Those that bleed write what others read. This book was written in blood. It allows the leaders, the bleeders and the readers a means of finding their way around some of the annoyances that crop up. It does so in a well written manner which is well thought out, and amusing when you’ll need to be amused.

It doesn’t sound too bad!

Read the review, and don’t forget to check out the comments!