Linux in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

Book Description

Over the last few years, Linux has grown both as an operating system and a tool for personal and business use. Simultaneously becoming more user friendly and more powerful as a back-end system, Linux has achieved new plateaus: the newer filesystems have solidified, new commands and tools have appeared and become standard, and the desktop--including new desktop environments--have proved to be viable, stable, and readily accessible to even those who don't consider themselves computer gurus.

Whether you're using Linux for personal software projects, for a small office or home office (often termed the SOHO environment), to provide services to a small group of colleagues, or to administer a site responsible for millions of email and web connections each day, you need quick access to information on a wide range of tools. This book covers all aspects of administering and making effective use of Linux systems. Among its topics are booting, package management, and revision control. But foremost in Linux in a Nutshell are the utilities and commands that make Linux one of the most powerful and flexible systems available.

Now in its fifth edition, Linux in a Nutshell brings users up-to-date with the current state of Linux. Considered by many to be the most complete and authoritative command reference for Linux available, the book covers all substantial user, programming, administration, and networking commands for the most common Linux distributions.

Comprehensive but concise, the fifth edition has been updated to cover new features of major Linux distributions. Configuration information for the rapidly growing commercial network services and community update services is one of the subjects covered for the first time.

But that's just the beginning. The book covers editors, shells, and LILO and GRUB boot options. There's also coverage of Apache, Samba, Postfix, sendmail, CVS, Subversion, Emacs, vi, sed, gawk, and much more. Everything that system administrators, developers, and power users need to know about Linux is referenced here, and they will turn to this book again and again.

Customer Reviews:

Essential Linux Reference.......2007-09-16

This book is a constant companion on my physical desktop....if you deal with Linux in anyway at all this book is a necessity.

A very big nutshell!.......2007-07-23

This book is as it promises, lots of information in a very (relatively) small space. The chapters are organized on topics that the newbie (read: me!) needs to know about and the explanations are thorough and well-written. While the old hand will understand the material covered easily and without much review, the newbie will have to read and re-read to get it all. Chapter 3 lists the most common LINUX commands and details arguments that go with them. The index and the fact that the commands lists are alphabetical make it very easy to look up a specific command or function and find out what you need to know to make it work on the spot. The chapters on Shells and on the VIM Editor are very informative and make two tough topics easy to understand. Reading through the VIM editor chapter as I did a lab practical made the process almost fun. For me, the best part was that I could understand the book, and my way experienced friend also finds it a useful reference for his more advanced work. So, I'll be able to use it while I grow into it as a LINUX user.

It's a Nutshell book. Duh........2007-07-15

If you've been in the tech field for any length of time you own at least one Nutshell book. If you like them, you own several; if you don't, you probably stopped at one.

good Linux desk encyclopedia.......2007-07-14

This is a good paper Linux reference for system administrators and (to some extent) software developers. If you are using Linux as a desktop system this is probably not the book for you, because you will do everything through a GUI and will never need anything in this book.

Despite initial appearances, this is not just a dump of all the Unix man pages. Each command entry is considerably condensed, with less-used options omitted and most of the more verbose option descriptions shrunk to one line. On the other hand it gives lengthier and more useful synopses than the man pages do. Some of the more complicated programs such as gawk and cvs have their own chapters with detailed introductions to the tools.

This is almost totally a reference, with no tutorial information and some scattered examples. The introductory sections on each tool are good. The book has a good functional index which helps find the relevant commands.

I have mixed feelings about the level of coverage in this book. It's perched in an awkward place between a really comprehensive reference (which would have to be multiple volumes) and an overview that alerts you to the capabilities and where to find the commands, without giving you the parameters and options. I think I would like it better if it had less detail, so I could quickly get an overview (without rummaging through 942 pages) and then delve into the man pages for the details. Think of the present book as a desktop encyclopedia: it gives you a good overview, and if you already know an area it can remind you of the parameters, but it's neither a tutorial nor a complete reference.

Excellent Reference Book.......2007-02-25

When you need to know what a Linux command does and all the options you can use with it, this book is the one to buy. I have two other books on how to install and use Linux. They teach you about the integrated software and some of the operating system commands for specific actions. This book details the commands and syntax in depth.

Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux (Hacks)

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Not really that good
~Great book for anyone wanting to give Ubuntu a try~
a little dissapointed, but perhaps my fault
Useful and clear
A book you'll use -- The Ubuntu "comfortabilizing" guide...

Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux (Hacks)
Jonathan Oxer , Kyle Rankin , and Bill Childers
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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ASIN: 0596527209

Book Description

Ubuntu Linux--the most popular Linux distribution on the planet--preserves the spirit embodied in the ancient African word ubuntu, which means both "humanity to others" and "I am what I am because of who we all are." Ubuntu won the Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award for best Linux distribution and is consistently the top-ranked Linux variant on DistroWatch.com. The reason this distribution is so widely popular is that Ubuntu is designed to be useful, usable, customizable, and always available for free worldwide.

Ubuntu Hacks is your one-stop source for all of the community knowledge you need to get the most out of Ubuntu: a collection of 100 tips and tools to help new and experienced Linux users install, configure, and customize Ubuntu. With this set of hacks, you can get Ubuntu Linux working exactly the way you need it to. Learn how to:

Install and test-drive Ubuntu Linux.
Keep your system running smoothly
Turn Ubuntu into a multimedia powerhouse: rip and burn discs, watch videos, listen to music, and more
Take Ubuntu on the road with Wi-Fi wireless networking, Bluetooth, etc.
Hook up multiple displays and enable your video card's 3-D acceleration
Run Ubuntu with virtualization technology such as Xen and VMware
Tighten your system's security
Set up an Ubuntu-powered server

Ubuntu Hacks will not only show you how to get everything working just right, you will also have a great time doing it as you explore the powerful features lurking within Ubuntu.

"Put in a nutshell, this book is a collection of around 100 tips and tricks which the authors choose to call hacks, which explain how to accomplish various tasks in Ubuntu Linux. The so called hacks range from down right ordinary to the other end of the spectrum of doing specialised things...More over, each and every tip in this book has been tested by the authors on the latest version of Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) and is guaranteed to work. In writing this book, it is clear that the authors have put in a lot of hard work in covering all facets of configuring this popular Linux distribution which makes this book a worth while buy."
-- Ravi Kumar, Slashdot.org

Customer Reviews:

Not really that good.......2007-08-26

It is a slow read and really doesn't help you to understand what you are doing.

~Great book for anyone wanting to give Ubuntu a try~.......2007-08-08

I have been using UBUNTU now for about 6-8 months. I LOVE it so much makes me wonder why I used Windows operating system for so long. After using it we decided to get this hand book to learn the tweaks for some programs that were not working properly ... this will give you a lot of great advice & tip's to getting the best experience while using UBUNTU. After researching all the different book for getting the most out this amazing operating system ... we settled on this one & were not disappointed!! Would highly recommend to everyone!

a little dissapointed, but perhaps my fault.......2007-07-23

I expected a lot more from this book, since it is part of the "Hacks" series, and coming from O'Reilly, I expected it to be a little more interesting. But there is not much in here that cannot be found in the official Ubuntu documentation on their site, or in the community wiki, also on that site. There are a few hacks that are pretty neat, like building your own version of the live-cd, keeping settings for live sessions in flash memory, and buying iTunes music, but the there is stuff like "How to play DVDs," or "Get productive with applications." Also, as a warning, some of the hacks are more geared toward the Ubuntu distribution, rather than the KDE desktop, Kubuntu. It doesn't matter that much, since they are so similar, but somethings don't translate perfectly. For instance, if you are running Kubuntu and want to use the search-your-computer hack, it uses beagle, which is a GNOME app and requires installation of GNOME dependencies which can take up a lot space on top of KDE's own.

I probably should have researched the book more, but if someone else is looking at this for more exciting, technical, and in-depth hacks that detail getting the most out of Ubuntu, look elsewhere. For beginners who want a print manual that is clear, well laid out, and details ways to use this excellent OS, it is spot on. I am glad I bought it, but I am continuing to shop for more hardcore Linux hacks.

Useful and clear .......2007-06-03

Providing 100 useful modifications and procedures to making an Ubuntu system even more useful than a standard distribution, "Ubuntu Hacks" is written clearly, succinctly and with useful end-results in mind.

Chapters are differentiated by the type of "hack" (e.g., Multimedia, Package Management, Security, SoHo Server) or level of difficulty (beginner, moderate and expert), meaning that there really is something for everyone. It is a clever and useful breakdown.

The overwhelming majority of the book has very high utility in the various elaborations to the Ubuntu base-system, which means one can avoid the somewhat tedious process of investigation package 'X' in terms of "will this be useful to me". Obviously in some cases (e.g., "set up a mail server") only the most minimal set of instructions can be given, but these are usually the one's which are most useful.

Whilst there are a couple of issues I would have done differently (e.g., include a small FAT 32 partition for swapping files between OSs when doing a Windows/Ubuntu dual boot) these are fairly trivial to what is, overall, an excellent product which is recommended for any Ubuntu user who wants to tweak their system to maximise utility and performance.

A book you'll use -- The Ubuntu "comfortabilizing" guide..........2007-05-01

Because this Web site already contains quite a few very detailed reviews of Ubuntu Hacks, I'm going to provide a very brief synopsis of why I found the book useful.

I've been running Ubuntu Linux as my primary operating system for a bit less than three months. There've been a few teeth-gnashing, table-pounding "Linux moments", but on the whole Ubuntu's installability, basic configurability, and usability are all superior to other Linux distributions I've tried and abandoned over the past three or so years.

But, like a lot of people I've run Windows most of the time. That means there's bound to be a lot about Linux in general, and Ubuntu in particular, that I don't know. This is where Ubuntu Hacks provides useful and usable information that helped me "comfortabilize" Ubuntu.

The primary categories of information in Ubuntu Hacks are (a) adjusting stuff that's already there, and (b) installing new, useful stuff that's not part of a default installation. Between those two categories, Ubuntu Hacks will help a new Ubuntu user become more thoroughly oriented with his or her new Linux system. To cite but one example, Ubuntu Hacks enabled me to install and configure the free VMware Server that allows me to run a Windows virtual machine "under" Linux. This in turn is greatly reducing the number of times I need to boot into my dual-boot computer's Windows partition...

Finally, I'll add that over the past year or so I've cut *way* back on the number of technical books I'm buying. A book must provide me not only with information, but organize and present that information in a way that allows me to efficiently locate and apply it. Ubuntu Hacks fulfills that requirement.

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An excellent reference
good handbook
Great Product!
Best reference book for Linux
If you own one reference book for Linux, this should be it.

Linux Pocket Guide
Daniel J. Barrett
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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ASIN: 0596006284

Book Description

O'Reilly's Pocket Guides have earned a reputation as inexpensive, comprehensive, and compact guides that have the stuff but not the fluff. Every page of Linux Pocket Guide lives up to this billing. It clearly explains how to get up to speed quickly on day-to-day Linux use. Once you're up and running, Linux Pocket Guide provides an easy-to-use reference that you can keep by your keyboard for those times when you want a fast, useful answer, not hours in the man pages. Linux Pocket Guide is organized the way you use Linux: by function, not just alphabetically. It's not the 'bible of Linux; it's a practical and concise guide to the options and commands you need most. It starts with general concepts like files and directories, the shell, and X windows, and then presents detailed overviews of the most essential commands, with clear examples. You'll learn each command's purpose, usage, options, location on disk, and even the RPM package that installed it. The Linux Pocket Guide is tailored to Fedora Linux--the latest spin-off of Red Hat Linux--but most of the information applies to any Linux system. Throw in a host of valuable power user tips and a friendly and accessible style, and you'll quickly find this practical, to-the-point book a small but mighty resource for Linux users.

Customer Reviews:

An excellent reference.......2007-03-25

This book is exactly the type of excellent work one comes to expect from O'Reilly. Tons on useful information in a handy pocket reference size. I bought it because I had been away from Linux for awhile and was rusty on all of the commands. This filled the bill perfectly.

good handbook.......2007-03-17

A good, standard handbook for Fedora and other Linux flavors. A good reference when you already know the OS and need a reference back to refresh your memory on command syntax, etc

Great Product!.......2007-03-08

This book has helped me to have a better understanding of the Linux commands.

Best reference book for Linux.......2007-01-15

This is the second copy of this book that I have. It is true that in the latest distributions of Linux (Suse 10, Fedora 6 or Ubuntu 6.+) you do not need to enter almost any command via the terminal, but there are two main reasons to learn to use the terminal line:
1. you want to become a power user and customize your linux distro, or
2. as an open source system, you are likely to broke something trying to install the latest applications, as Beryl for example, and you broke the graphical server.
In both cases, this book is a must have.
You can have access the same (or more) information via the 'man' command, but is useful to have some writen examples on how to use some commands. This book is very well organized and the size is really 'pocket'. It is a little outdated (2004) and oriented to Fedora (I'm an Ubuntu user), but useful anyway.

If you own one reference book for Linux, this should be it........2007-01-06

I am a linux newbie, though I have an extensive computer background in other operating systems, and I wanted a comprehensive, yet brief reference book for Linux. This is indespensible! I have other detailed, how-to Linux books, but this is the one I continue to use on a regular basis. THe book is arranged in a very logical way, and the table of contents in conjunction with the index allows me to quickly find the command I need. Essentially all Linux commands are included, and for a given command, the most commonly used options are explained.

If I need more detail, and I infrequently do, I can go to those other books, or most likely I just use Linux available documentation (command help, man pages, etc.)

Alot of information for just a few bucks -- again, indispensible!

Fairies Gnomes & Trolls: Create A Fantasy World in Polymer Clay

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Fantastic Instructional Polymer Book!
Great for beginners...
Wonderful Book
Fairies Gnomes & Trolls, Oh My!
A "Must-Have" when learning polymer clay techniques

Fairies Gnomes & Trolls: Create A Fantasy World in Polymer Clay
Maureen Carlson
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1581808208

Book Description

A world of polymer clay magic, all in one book! Features 15 step-by-step projects for creating clay fairies, gnomes, trolls and other enchanting figures All materials are readily available at local craft stores The whimsical creatures of fantasy spring to life through polymer clay projects in this beautiful instructional book. Readers will learn to create an entire fantasy land, from the secret door to enter this fantastic realm to the trolls, gnomes, fairies and mermaids who inhabit it. Step-by-step photos allow for re-creating the characters exactly, and readers are inspired to make their own imaginary creatures through a gallery of the author's own figures.

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic Instructional Polymer Book! .......2007-09-22

Maureen Carlson has done a wonderful job with this book in teaching armature and sculpting of whimsical characters. The book is beautiful to look at with lots of little sidenotes and pleasing backgrounds. I think that Maureen explains and shows through photographs hot to sculpt so that nearly anyone can do it. It's a great alternative to taking a class if you can't attend one of hers.

Great for beginners..........2007-08-24

I ordered this book to get a feel for Ms. Carlson's technique...very detailed instructions, many projects to choose from, overall a lovely start for anyone interested in sculpting fantasy figures.

Wonderful Book.......2007-07-17

I'm trying to learn how to sculpt & this book is very very easy to follow. I learned how to do the body armature very easily. It's very well written & easy to follow.

Fairies Gnomes & Trolls, Oh My!.......2007-07-16

An excellent book. The pictures and instructions are clear and easy to understand. The projects are fun to do. I recommend this book for anyone interested in fantasy polymer clay creations.

A "Must-Have" when learning polymer clay techniques.......2007-06-15

I am new to sculpting and polymer clay. I bought this book as well as 3 others to help me learn techniques and basic "what do I do with this lump of clay?". I browsed thru all 4 when the books arrived and I still have NOT gone back to the other 3 books - after a week! This book is a joy to read. I've skipped around projects, browsed thru the beautiful pictures and checked out the "helpful hints" placed thru-out the book. Unlike many computer manuals and "Dummies" books, the hints in this book are REALLY useful. I can see myself referring back to this book for years to come - long after I feel I'm no longer a beginner. I am definitely going to purchase other books from Maureen Carlson. She's one of those people that is not only good at what she does, she's able to explain it without making it seem like she's a Mensa memeber OR that she is "talking down" to you. TEN stars!! If you want to hear any "cons" (to go with the above "pros") I'd say that I will not do most of the projects in the book. However I didn't buy it to learn other people's projects. I just want to learn how to do what I want to do. By reviewing her projects I'm learning what I need to do different aspects of mine.

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Still Brilliant 30 Years Later
LOVE this book
Gnomes 30th Anniversary Edition
Brilliant!
A good book

Gnomes 30th Anniversary Edition
Wil Huygen
Manufacturer: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0810954982

Book Description

Gnomes is the product of Rien Poortvliet and Wil Huygen's observation of the local gnome population in Holland. Until Gnomes was first published in Dutch in 1976, these friendly nocturnal creatures were only represented in folk lore; descriptions were often incomplete or simply inaccurate. Poortvliet and Huygen, having studied and interviewed gnomes for two decades, set out to fill this gap with their own encyclopedic tome.

Gnomes covers all areas of gnome culture, including architecture, education, courtship, medicine, industry, and relationships with other mythical creatures. Huygen's sober descriptions are balanced by Poortvliet's light-hearted portrayals of gnomes at work and at play. Thirty years later, this beautifully illustrated volume continues to engage and enchant readers of all ages.

Customer Reviews:

Still Brilliant 30 Years Later.......2007-05-19

I was enchanted when I first pored over this as a six-year-old, and am equally enchanted today, 30 years later. The illustrations and writing are not only timeless, but ageless as well... I suspect I will be equally moved 30 years hence!

LOVE this book.......2007-05-17

this book reminds me of my childhood. i loved it then and love it now. i'd recommend it to anyone. i just bought my second copy. the artwork and attention to detail is simply wonderful.

Gnomes 30th Anniversary Edition.......2007-05-01

This book is fabulous. It has an in depth background about gnomes and the illustration is amazing! I've picked it up so many times and learned something new each time. After reading it I had to bring some gnomes home to hang out around the house. I do see little things they work on around the yard he-he. We've passed the book all around to friends and family to look through and enjoy.

Brilliant!.......2007-01-11

Just one word describes this book: brilliant!

I always admired Rien's pictures, but this really takes top honours!

A good book.......2007-01-05

This book is a very good book, I read when I was a child and recently purchased it for my kids.

Gnome/Gtk+ Programming Bible (Bible (Wiley))

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should have been called a tutorial NOT a bible
Good start
Too bad it contains mistakes...
Too bad it contains mistakes...
A good bood that give examples of advanced GTK+/GNOME featur

Gnome/Gtk+ Programming Bible (Bible (Wiley))
Arthur Griffith
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds
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ASIN: 0764546406

Amazon.com

With Linux's popularity as a workstation operating system skyrocketing and GNOME the most popular desktop environment for Linux, it makes sense for programmers to develop proficiency in GNOME programming. Old Unix salt Arthur Griffith relates his considerable knowledge of GNOME and its underlying graphics libraries in GNOME/GTK+ Programming Bible. He knows X programming very well, and does a fine job of introducing programmers (he assumes only familiarity with C) to GNOME, GTK+, GDK, and the rest of this Linux graphics hierarchy. Readers learn how to create buttons, menus, and other graphical user interface (GUI) elements, as well as polygons, pixels, and other custom graphics forms.

Griffith's style goes heavy on code, which may or may not be to your liking. He typically introduces a concept (such as reacting to mouse events or moving polygons around a canvas), writes a bit about the language elements that support it, and then unleashes a listing of code to implement the task and variations of it. After each code listing, he explains what's going on in the program. The most appealing part of Griffith's book is his depth of knowledge and enthusiasm for sharing it. He's like a kid in a candy store, but he gets to talk about the candy too. Read this volume for a well-grounded and wide-ranging explanation of what you can do with graphics under GNOME. --David Wall

Topics covered: Programming graphics and GUIs in the GNOME windowing environment. Areas of emphasis include windows, dialogs, interface widgets, and other library-based GUI elements, as well as more flexible (and complex) graphics-creation techniques. Specific attention goes to color, mouse and keyboard event detection, fonts, drag and drop, and building your own widgets. A GTK reference appears in an appendix.

Book Description

With the rise of such Windowslike desktop environments as GNOME, Linux is poised to go mainstream. Programming expert Arthur Griffith shows beginning to advanced C and C++ programmers how to use the Gimp ToolKit, GNOME widgets, and other open source tools to create user-friendly graphical interfaces for GNOME desktop applications and much more.

The CD-ROM includes all the examples used in the bible, GNOME core files and libraries, a compiler, autoconf, and automake.

Customer Reviews:

should have been called a tutorial NOT a bible.......2002-11-27

This book is a fast and easy intro to gtk and gnome programming. It contains large, complete examples which are good if you want to do what everyone else is doing. However, I'm trying to draw data and I need something better than calling gdk_gc_set_foreground(); gdk_draw_point(); 256 times for every data set.

He uses a large number of gdk routines without providing any overview. The routines are explained where they are used but it's very haphazard. Most of the routines I need seem to be missing.

The references for Gtk and Gnome widgets list functions, enums and signals for each but doesn't explain anything about them. Parameters and return values are only discussed in the text if they are actually used.

Good start.......2000-12-07

This book started out very good, although it doesn't explain alot of the widgets and getting data from the widgets very well, for example i had search for around 2 hours for ways to get data from the OptionMenu widget that was not explained at all in the book. The book also lacks good discription for what each function does in the GTK+ reference.

Too bad it contains mistakes..........2000-11-15

This book is informative, well designed and, in general, a good book.

The only thing I did not like about this book is the errors that it contains and the fact that the publisher doesn't publish a list of errors. Sometimes the explanation says one thing and the code that goes with it says another. (ex: Take a look at page 27 (the code) and take a look at the explanation on page 28. It claims that if eventDelete returns TRUE, the window closes. The code says otherwise)

Please put some pressure on the publisher so that he corrects the book in a second printing.

Too bad it contains mistakes..........2000-11-15

This book is informative, well designed and, in general, a good book.

Please put pressure on the publisher so that he corects the book.

A good bood that give examples of advanced GTK+/GNOME featur.......2000-10-02

GNOME/GTK+ Programming Bible is a good book but has many short commings. The good part is that it discusses some of the more advanced features of GTK+ and GNOME; specifically Paned windows, MDI windows, and Scrolled windows. The examples are generally very simplistic and way too many of the function call parameters are never explained. In the listing of GTK+ and GNOME features, the main calls are completely omitted; listing calls that support the main Widget building call. Only the function prototype is given, with no explanation as to the meaning of the call parameters. This said, I still find it a very useful book for the examples it provides that do not appear in the other books. The appendices appear to give a fairly complete listing of: Inheritance, Arg Settings anf Getting, Enumeration Types, Signals, Functions by Return Type.

The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves & Other Little People

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A ghastly edition of an otherwise interesting book due to poor typesetting
Hard to read....
Historical accounts
Fantastic book!
Mythic tales

The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves & Other Little People
Thomas Keightley
Manufacturer: Gramercy
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ASIN: 0517263130
Release Date: 2000-09-05

Book Description

A fascinating compendium of folklore, superstitions, and mythology surrounding the 'little people', including discussions of fairy tradition as it appears in great works of English literature.

Customer Reviews:

A ghastly edition of an otherwise interesting book due to poor typesetting.......2007-08-08

This edition looks like someone typed this up on an early manual typewriter, that was made in the 1800's. Then it was ran off on an old fashioned copy machine, afterwards. The text is splotchy in some parts and parts of letters are missing in others. While some may not be bothered by that, I found it distracting and annoying.

Hard to read...........2006-11-28

This was not an easy to read book. I am guessing that is due to how old it is, and people just don't speak that way anymore. It was interesting to see how people really believed in this and how they handled it. I think I read it a little at a time over a 6 month period.

Historical accounts.......2006-11-13

I hadn't realized that this book was going to be a collection of historical accounts. Nonetheless, it was extensive; somewhat difficult to read as the sources were many and of different nationalities.

You might try a modern-day, directly channeled book I just finished reading, "If You Could Only See .. A Gnome's Story" available here on Amazon, if you are looking to have direct experiences yourself. Written by Christopher Valentine, MBA and Christian von Lahr, PHD. There is also a Healing with the Fairies book by Doreen Virtue that is a more gentle read. This one, The World Guide, goes far to give you a broad world review on the little people from the many perspectives it has collected.

Get them all if you enjoy the subject.

Windy

Fantastic book!.......2006-02-01

I am so thrilled to see that this book is still in print. When I was a child, I used to read and re-read an originally published copy (still called The Fairy Mythology then) in her dusty, musty library. I've searched and searched for the book, not even able to recall the title until the other day, when I typed in the original title and came up with the re-print. What a wonderful treat to know that I will be able to own a copy again. It completely cast a mysterious, magical spell over my adolescence. You will love this book.

Mythic tales.......2005-05-24

It's a credit to Thomas Keightley's "World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves & Other Little People" that it's still a relevant mythologic source today, over a hundred years after it was first published. The stories, explanations and legends are still as informative as they were in 1880, although they are rather restricted.

Okay, "World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People" sounds like a cutesy title for a Brian Froud-illustrated book. And it's a rather lightweight title for a book with genuine merit -- especially the "little people" part of it, since the elves, fey and gnomes in here are anything but dainty Victorian fairies.

Instead, Keightley focuses on traditional goblins, dwarves and elves -- Scandinavian trolls and beautiful alfar, Germanic Zwerge and kobolds, British fairies, Celtic spirits and seal-men, and the epic sagas that greatly influenced early fantasy authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and George MacDonald. Take a look at the chapter on the "Eddas and Sagas," and it's hard not to think of Middle Earth.

Its one flaw is that it's restricted mostly to Europe -- there's a brief chapter on African superstitions, and one for Judaistic ones. Other than that, nothing that originates outside Europe. While it's understandable, considering the time that Keightley lived in, it's hard not to wonder if he couldn't have found out at least a few other cultural legends.

However, this is a rich source for European myths and legends, especially since Keightley obviously did his research. He includes snippets of untranslated poetry, ballads, and footnotes detailing migratory myths and differing versions. He also summarizes some of the denser material like the two Eddas, which are extremely long and sometimes difficult.

Though Thomas Keightley wrote this a hundred and twenty-five years ago, "The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People" is still a valuable and informative resource for anyone interested in European myths and legends. So ignore the title.

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Running Linux
Matthias Dalheimer , and Matt Welsh
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ASIN: 0596007604

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Earlier editions of O'Reilly's Running Linux served as central guides on installing, configuring, and using the OS. The third edition of this guide covers the kernel through version 2.2.1 and will prove especially useful to those with high technical aptitudes and a well-tested willingness to experiment with their computing environments.

The explanation of how to rebuild the kernel--a particularly daunting task for many--deserves special praise, as do the sections on configuring network links and servers. Users will find that the informative, prose-heavy style packs maximum information into this book's pages. For example, the purpose of a Linux element is described and then the reader is shown various ways of using it, complete with explicit statements of what you type and what you get in response. Back this book up with a good command reference (Linux in a Nutshell is solid), and you'll be well on your way to Linux mastery. --David Wall

Topics covered: KDE and Gnome windowing systems; Samba, file, and system management; shells; windowing systems and networking; installation on Alpha, PowerPC, Motorola 680x0, and Sparc boxes.

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You may be contemplating your first Linux installation. Or you may have been using Linux for years and need to know more about adding a network printer or setting up an FTP server. Running Linux, now in its fifth edition, is the book you'll want on hand in either case. Widely recognized in the Linux community as the ultimate getting-started and problem-solving book, it answers the questions and tackles the configuration issues that frequently plague users, but are seldom addressed in other books.

This fifth edition of Running Linux is greatly expanded, reflecting the maturity of the operating system and the teeming wealth of software available for it. Hot consumer topics such as audio and video playback applications, groupware functionality, and spam filtering are covered, along with the basics in configuration and management that always have made the book popular.

Running Linux covers basic communications such as mail, web surfing, and instant messaging, but also delves into the subtleties of network configuration--including dial-up, ADSL, and cable modems--in case you need to set up your network manually. The book can make you proficient on office suites and personal productivity applications--and also tells you what programming tools are available if you're interested in contributing to these applications.

Other new topics in the fifth edition include encrypted email and filesystems, advanced shell techniques, and remote login applications. Classic discussions on booting, package management, kernel recompilation, and X configuration have also been updated.

The authors of Running Linux have anticipated problem areas, selected stable and popular solutions, and provided clear instructions to ensure that you'll have a satisfying experience using Linux. The discussion is direct and complete enough to guide novice users, while still providing the additional information experienced users will need to progress in their mastery of Linux.

Whether you're using Linux on a home workstation or maintaining a network server, Running Linux will provide expert advice just when you need it.

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A truly wonderful intro to Linux all around........2007-08-31

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is new to Linux and attempting to figure their way around. It's not a great book for those who just want the how-do-I-do-this-without-having-to-understand-anything-under-the-covers approach. If you want that I would recommend going with a book like Spring Into Linux (Valade), which is much more of a get you up to speed as fast as possible without teaching you much.

I like so far how much detail this book gives you, though the reason I haven't given it 5 out of 5 is simply because I feel like it's lacking detail in some key areas (most notably so far for me would be its sparse offerings in the NFS section). However, the book itself does not claim to be exhaustive. In fact, it claims to be just the opposite and admits early on that its goal is only to give you enough information to be dangerous and then point you towards better maps if you so choose. That in itself is one of the reasons I like the book. They really do, for the most part, give you tremendous little intros to topics that help you understand not only how to do something, but also why you're doing it that way, why linux may have been designed in that way, etc. etc.

So, in short, great book for an in-depth intro to linux. However, if you're looking to spend your money for a book that treats any topic very in depth, I would recommend going with any of the other books in this series from O'Reilly, because this book was not designed for that. Good luck with Linux!

Excellent.......2007-07-16

I was in a urgent need of some fairly serious Linux bootcamp. This book worked, and this is how:

I hadn't had any significant Linux experience prior to buying this book. Sure, I knew a few basic UNIX commands, who doesn't?

After installing Ubuntu it became clear that I simply will have to spend too much time googling solutions for every problem. I went ahead and bought this book, read it cover to cover in about two days, and my fluentness in Linux administration/programming has increased dramatically. I still have to google some specifics (like Postfix/MySQL integration issues), but most of what I needed for my work, was in this fairly thin book.

Note that it is not focused on any particular distribution, and most of the tasks are explained with several major distros in mind. I kind of appreciated that also, since it only reassured my decision to go with a Debian-based Ubuntu.

Failed to answer a simple question.......2007-01-15

I haven't used Unix/Linux for about ten years. I know there is a command that will tell me how full the disk drives are. I tried to find the answer in this book. I looked up every possibility I could think of in the index (no entries for disk, or drive by the way--you need to look for "hard drive"), and waded through the section of filesystems with no luck.

When I found elsewhere that I was looking for the DU command. I looked that up. It's in the book but as a digression in a section explaining redirection on the command line. The related DF command is not mentioned at all, at least in the index.

These are basic commands that should be well referenced.

Not Extremely Helpful.......2007-01-13

I bought this book because I am switching from Windows to Linux on my home network. I thought it might be quicker to learn the ins and outs with the book vs. surfing from place-to-place on the web. My experience with the book is not that great--it never provides enough information on any subject to answer the question I have. I always have to resort to the internet for enough information to solve the problem of the day. It might be o-k for general Linux information, but it won't get you up and running as a system administrator on a home network.

essential.......2007-01-08

I am a very new user to Linux, this book has helped me out a lot. There is tons of useful info on how to use all the important aspects of Linux. Read through some of the other reviews to get a better run down on this book, then go buy it. This is a book I refer to frequently.

UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition (Complete Reference Series)

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UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition (Complete Reference Series)
Kenneth H. Rosen , Douglas A. Host , Rachel Klee , and Richard R. Rosinski
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The Definitive UNIX Resource--Fully Updated

Get cutting-edge coverage of the newest releases of UNIX --including Solaris 10, all Linux distributions, HP-UX, AIX, and FreeBSD -- from this thoroughly revised, one-stop resource for users at all experience levels. Written by UNIX experts with many years of experience starting with Bell Laboratories, UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition provides step-by-step instructions on how to use UNIX and take advantage of its powerful tools and utilities.

Get up-and-running on UNIX quickly, use the command shell and desktop, and access the Internet and e-mail. You'll also learn to administer systems and networks, develop applications, and secure your UNIX environment. Up-to-date chapters on UNIX desktops, Samba, Python, Java Apache, and UNIX Web development are included.

Install, configure, and maintain UNIX on your PC or workstation
Work with files, directories, commands, and the UNIX shell
Create and modify text files using powerful text editors
Use UNIX desktops, including GNOME, CDE, and KDE, as an end user or system administrator
Use and manage e-mail, TCP/IP networking, and Internet services
Protect and maintain the security of your UNIX system and network
Share devices, printers, and files between Windows and UNIX systems
Use powerful UNIX tools, including awk, sed, and grep
Develop your own shell, Python, and Perl scripts, and Java, C, and C++ programs under UNIX
Set up Apache Web servers and develop browser-independent Web sites and applications

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Definitely not for beginners.
a clean introducion
Does What It Sets Out To Do
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The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide
Matthias Warkus
Manufacturer: No Starch Press
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Developers who write programs for GNOME use the GNOME API. Working with the GNOME API is preferable because the program will conform to the standard GNOME program look and feel. It also allows the developer to use the GNOME specific libraries in the program, greatly simplifying the development process. The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide is the official GNOME Foundation guide to programming GUIs and applications using the GTK+ and GNOME API. Developed in partnership with the GNOME Foundation, this book is for programmers working with the GNOME 2 desktop environment. Each section begins with an example program that serves as a tutorial, then develops into a reference on the topic. Includes abundant, well-annotated examples. Knowledge of the C programming language is required, but no GUI programming experience is necessary.

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Definitely not for beginners........2007-06-20

Do not get this book unless you are already a skilled programmer. This is a quote from the introduction of the book: you must already have:

1. "experience in C, including pointers, dynamically allocated data structures, and pointers to functions. You should also be familiar with enumeration types and bit fields."
2. "a solid grasp of pointers to pointers (**types), where to use them, and how to extract and use the address of a pointer."
3. "understanding of C macros and the C preprocessor"
4. "fundamental understanding of Unix: processers, libraries, search paths, and so on."

Also, they recommend experience with callbacks and handlers.

So, again, if you are just setting out to learn programming as a beginner, this book will not help.

a clean introducion.......2006-08-03

This is a very clean and readable book introducing Gnome/Gtk2/GLib2 application developpement and can be also used for understanding GLib2 C utilities (strings, hashes, arrays, lists, trees...) and Gtk2 (treeview wigets, etc..). It also adds the Gconf stuff (an api for storing your app's configuration).

But unfortunately, neither the Bonobo graphical components nor the Corba services are presented. So, after reading the book, you still cannot know how to make your program communicate and integrate with other Gnome de facto standard apps. I hope some people will add one chatper or two about that in the next version..

Does What It Sets Out To Do.......2005-03-24

This is a pretty heavy duty programming book. The opening words say you should have, "Firm Programming Experience in C, including pointers, dynamically allocated data structures, and pointers to functions, C macros and the C preprocessor, fundamental understanding of Unix: processes, libraries, search paths, and so on."

Then the first chapter is on GLIB, a description of the more popular of the routines included in the library. The second chapter, GOBJECT has an opening note: "This chapter is dry and dense." -- Still, this chapter is one of the best descriptions of object oriented programming that I've ever read.

Finally in chapter 3 you begin to get into the heart of the matter. GTK+ is the toolkit for programming the GUI. Chapter 4 is on the GNOME Libraries. These two chapters are really the heart of the book and runs for about forty percent of the entire book. After that there is just some odds and ends that are left over.

This book, as clearly and succinctly as possible does what it sets out to do. It's not the simplest book on the shelf, but then again, neither is its subject.

Good book.......2004-08-21

As the author already states in the introduction the book doesn't cover all the aspects of gtk and gnome, because then the book would be over 1000 pages, but with what it covers it covers very well and you can have a great start with gnome programming.

The rest you can probably find out from the online documentation or the author has to write a part II

Excellent intro.......2004-05-16

I'm more of a command line kind of guy, but there are things better done in a graphical treatment. When this is true, I often resort to HTML, but that isn't always suitable either. Most of what I've read about GUI programming has left me feeling daunted by the learning curve, and the writing itself has mostly been difficult to read and unsatisfying

This book was a delightful exception. As its introduction promises, the content "lies somewhere between a tutorial and a reference". The code examples are often just the kind of things you would write yourself to test-drive your understanding; no unnecessary fluff. There are complete programs also, and these are downloadable from the No Starch web site.

Matthias Warkus has a real knack for explaining complex subjects. I particularly liked his way of explaining object inheritance, which is completely upside down from the way it is usually presented, and thereby makes a much more understandable case for using OO code.

The first chapter is an overview of GLib capabilies. I was quite surprised at the things GLib includes: I come from the days when you needed to buy commercial libraries to get features like memory management, linked lists, B-trees, etc. The second chapter covers GObject, which adds Object Oriented capability to standard C programming. That's an important aspect of Gnome: it is plain vanilla C with the OO stuff added on through the GObject library. For those of us who have yet to be entranced by C++, that's important.

Chapters three and four explain GTK+ and the Gnome libraries, the overlap between them, and hen you'd use either. Chapter five is a lucid introduction to Glade, the interactive development tool for Gnome. I was interested to note that Glade produces XML files that your programs references through calls to Glade libraries.

The rest of the book is miscellaneous coverage that wasn't covered elsewhere; compiling issues, configuration helpers like Gconf. I had ben previously unaware of the GnomeVFS discussed in chapter eight which allows your program to transparently access remote web servers and archive formats like PKzipped files.

All in all, this looks like a very good intro to Gnome GUI development.

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