Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide 5th Edition

An excellent book for beginners to use. To the authors a score of 10. The book is easy to read and comprehend. I received the book in excellent condition.

Live the book

Excellent product.

I'm new to the unix/linux system. Learning because of all the commotion as of late in the cyber world. This book did not seem very intuitive to me, examples are created and aren't explained as made up instead you end up creating meaningless files and have to apply the characteristics to normal behavior.The book also does not explain some things that should be explained in the begining of the book. Usually they will have something that says "see chapter 5 for more details on -----" but not always the case, especially the email talk. They talk about emails and perusing email in early chapters but it isnt until 220 pages into the book that you actually find anything differently. I needed this book for a class in college, really is not that good. I would suggest getting another book as well as this one, possibly about shell commands. I'll update this later if I find one. The humor is very dry and pretentious to say the least, reddit users would have a ball tearing this guy to shreds.Honestly I learned a lot with this book but I also put 20+ hours in doing so with many revisitations. This book wouldnt be bad as a reference but does not do justice as a introductory "quickstart"Also reading the other person's review - if this book is nearly identical to the previous version you'd be better off getting the previous version. what they may have added was the indexes at the end (which are actually helpful).

Most accurate book teaching the basics

I am not sure why there are negative comments about this book. It is a BEGINNERS book and should be looked at as such. It is NOT an administration guide, nor is it written in the context of setting up any sort of server. It is a well-written, basic guide for someone who has z-e-r-o Linux knowledge but has some computer literacy. The only criticism I would offer at the moment is the lack of discussion of networking because there is nothing in the book about setting or finding your IP address. If you need to do some heavy lifting with Linux or need deeper content, you will need to add another book dedicated to such to your arsenal.For those who have bashed this book, they were obviously looking for something more in-depth. As a college instructor teaching Linux to people who can't pronounce it properly let alone operate it, this book fits very well. The wording is concise, easy to relate to and most importantly, easy to understand. Are there a few missing components besides networking? Probably. But how detailed do you want to get in a "Quickstart Guide"? It's not supposed to be an all-inclusive reference.

Easy to use and understand for the beginner.

Unless this is assigned for a class (which is why I bought it) I would bypass this for almost anything else. The one benefit of this book is the clearly written text and the attractive layout. BUT many of the graphics showing code and output have been shrunk so much to fit them into neat columns that they are literally illegible without a magnifying glass. So you miss whatever the point of those examples might be. Moreover, coverage of many areas that are important for beginners is absent or skimpy.I was lucky to be able to find supplementary material from the library to get me through the class - this was pretty inadequate.