Unix Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
• Published by: Peachpit Press February 24, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0321205499
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0321205490
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 13.6 ounces

Book Description


If you've mastered the flavors, commands, and technical jargon surrounding Unix, are comfortable working from within the command line, and are now
itching to take your Unix skills to the next level, this is the place to start! Using a task-based teaching style and easy visual approach, author Chris Herborth does more than just enumerate commands here. In these pages, he shows you how to combine and synthesize those commands to take full advantage of all of Unix's functionality. The focus here is on Unix security, networking, and system administration. By the time you reach the end of this volume, you'll be solving problems and administering systems
competently--in short, tapping all of Unix's power.

Back Cover Copy
If you've mastered the flavors, commands, and technical jargon surrounding Unix, are comfortable working from within the command line, and are now itching to take your Unix skills to the next level, this is the place to start! Using the same task-based teaching style and easy visual approach employed in their best-selling Unix (Visual QuickStart Guide), veteran authors Deborah Ray and Eric Ray do more than just enumerate commands here. In these pages, they show you how to combine and synthesize those commands to take full advantage of all of Unix's functionality. The focus here is on advanced Unix security, networking, and system administration. In addition, the authors take a good, hard look at using the Xwindows system to harness Unix's power in the GUI world. By the time you reach the end of this volume, you'll be solving problems, administering systems, and running Xwindows competently-in short, tapping all of Unix's power.

Reader Reviews
The "Back Cover Text" for this book is the description pasted from the UNIX Visual QuickStart book. The back of the book actually just includes some points about why the Visual QuickPro series is helpful, and a short blurb about the author (me). I'm giving the book a "4" because I wrote it (so you wouldn't believe a "5," and a "3" would suggest that it was terrible), and because I've used it as a reference myself a few times since it was published. - chrish Comment | | (Report this)