Praise for Previous Editions of
A Practical
Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
“Since I’m in an educational environment, I found the content of Sobell’s
book to be right on target and very helpful for anyone managing Linux
in the enterprise. His style of writing is very clear. He builds up to the
chapter exercises, which I find to be relevant to real-world scenarios a
user or admin would encounter. An IT/IS student would find this book a
valuable complement to their education. The vast amount of informa-
tion is extremely well balanced and Sobell manages to present the con-
tent without complicated asides and meandering prose. This is a ‘must
have’ for anyone managing Linux systems in a networked environment
or anyone running a Linux server. I would also highly recommend it to
an experienced computer user who is moving to the Linux platform.”
—Mary Norbury
IT Director
Barbara Davis Center
University of Colorado at Denver
from a review posted on slashdot.org
“I had the chance to use your UNIX books when I when was in college
years ago at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. I have to say that your
books are among the best! They’re quality books that teach the theo-
retical aspects and applications of the operating system.”
—Benton Chan
IS Engineer
“The book has more than lived up to my expectations from the many
reviews I read, even though it targets FC2. I have found something very
rare with your book: It doesn’t read like the standard technical text, it
reads more like a story. It’s a pleasure to read and hard to put down.
Did I say that?! :-)”
—David Hopkins
Business Process Architect
“Thanks for your work and for the book you wrote. There are really few
books that can help people to become more efficient administrators of
different workstations. We hope (in Russia) that you will continue
bringing us a new level of understanding of Linux/UNIX systems.”
—Anton Petukhov
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“Mark Sobell has written a book as approachable as it is authoritative.”
—Jeffrey Bianchine
Advocate, Author, Journalist
“Excellent reference book, well suited for the sysadmin of a Linux clus-
ter, or the owner of a PC contemplating installing a recent stable Linux.
Don’t be put off by the daunting heft of the book. Sobell has striven to
be as inclusive as possible, in trying to anticipate your system adminis-
tration needs.”
—Wes Boudville
Inventor
“A Practical Guide to Red Hat
®
Linux
®
is a brilliant book. Thank you
Mark Sobell.”
—C. Pozrikidis
University of California at San Diego
“This book presents the best overview of the Linux operating system that
I have found. . . . [It] should be very helpful and understandable no mat-
ter what the reader’s background: traditional UNIX user, new Linux
devotee, or even Windows user. Each topic is presented in a clear, com-
plete fashion and very few assumptions are made about what the reader
knows. . . . The book is extremely useful as a reference, as it contains a
70-page glossary of terms and is very well indexed. It is organized in
such a way that the reader can focus on simple tasks without having to
wade through more advanced topics until they are ready.”
—Cam Marshall
Marshall Information Service LLC
Member of Front Range UNIX
Users Group [FRUUG]
Boulder, Colorado
“Conclusively, this is THE book to get if you are a new Linux user and
you just got into RH/Fedora world. There’s no other book that dis-
cusses so many different topics and in such depth.”
—Eugenia Loli-Queru
Editor in Chief
OSNews.com
Praise for Other Books by Mark G. Sobell
“This book is a very useful tool for anyone who wants to ‘look under
the hood’ so to speak, and really start putting the power of Linux to
work. What I find particularly frustrating about man pages is that they
never include examples. Sobell, on the other hand, outlines very clearly
what the command does and then gives several common, easy-to-
understand examples that make it a breeze to start shell programming
on one’s own. As with Sobell’s other works, this is simple, straight-
forward, and easy to read. It’s a great book and will stay on the shelf at
easy arm’s reach for a long time.”
—Ray Bartlett
Travel Writer
“Overall I found this book to be quite excellent, and it has earned a spot
on the very front of my bookshelf. It covers the real ‘guts’ of Linux—
the command line and its utilities—and does so very well. Its strongest
points are the outstanding use of examples, and the Command Refer-
ence section. Highly recommended for Linux users of all skill levels.
Well done to Mark Sobell and Prentice Hall for this outstanding book!”
—Dan Clough
Electronics Engineer and
Slackware Linux User
“Totally unlike most Linux books, this book avoids discussing every-
thing via GUI and jumps right into making the power of the command
line your friend.”
—Bjorn Tipling
Software Engineer
ask.com
“This book is the best distro-agnostic, foundational Linux reference I’ve
ever seen, out of dozens of Linux-related books I’ve read. Finding this
book was a real stroke of luck. If you want to really understand how to
get things done at the command line, where the power and flexibility of
free UNIX-like OSes really live, this book is among the best tools you’ll
find toward that end.”
—Chad Perrin
Writer, TechRepublic
“I currently own one of your books, A Practical Guide to Linux
®
. I
believe this book is one of the most comprehensive and, as the title
says, practical guides to Linux I have ever read. I consider myself a
novice and I come back to this book over and over again.”
—Albert J. Nguyen
“Thank you for writing a book to help me get away from Windows XP
and to never touch Windows Vista. The book is great; I am learning a lot
of new concepts and commands. Linux is definitely getting easier to use.”
—James Moritz
“I am so impressed by how Mark Sobell can approach a complex topic
in such an understandable manner. His command examples are espe-
cially useful in providing a novice (or even an advanced) administrator
with a cookbook on how to accomplish real-world tasks on Linux. He
is truly an inspired technical writer!”
—George Vish II
Senior Education Consultant
Hewlett-Packard Company
“Overall, I think it’s a great, comprehensive Ubuntu book that’ll be a
valuable resource for people of all technical levels.”
—John Dong
Ubuntu Forum Council Member
Backports Team Leader
“The JumpStart sections really offer a quick way to get things up and
running, allowing you to dig into the details of the book later.”
—Scott Mann
Aztek Networks
“I would so love to be able to use this book to teach a class about not
just Ubuntu or Linux but about computers in general. It is thorough
and well written with good illustrations that explain important con-
cepts for computer usage.”
—Nathan Eckenrode
New York Local Community Team
