Linux: The Complete Reference, Sixth Edition 6th Edition

My copy is well-worn. Anyone who's a GNU/Linux user will find this book to be a valuable asset. Whatever I can't get good enough information on via Linux Questions or Unix Men or whatever, this usually gets me over the hump. I'm a home user that's a fan of Mint, and I'm not a serious pro-level geek. Still, this book is easy enough for me to follow, though there's enough in this book for anyone up to and including a system manager to find it helpful. If you only buy one Linux book, this should be it.

This book is awesome, yet during the age of internet you can find your answer faster online.If you do not have access to internet (proxy/firewall/company rules etc...) and work on linux you must have this.

Of all the Linux books growing obsolete daily, this book is aging the slowest. I dig in to this when in doubt for a command or just curious. Some days I'm working on 6 different versions of Linux, each with or without commands I can use to get a job done. This book fills in for Man pages and so on.

As someone new to Linux, I just haven't found this book to be that useful. It is indeed full of the details of managing Linux, but it's not presented with structure and explanation that helps understanding. Some authors are clearly good at putting themselves in the reader's shoes and thinking about how to present the concepts and details clearly enough that the reader can effectively act on it. With this book, it's more a matter of just comprehensively covering the material and calling it done.

I got this as a "like new" book, for 1/10th what a friend paid for a "new" edition. Mine apparently had never been opened, certainly not USED. It is going to be used as a reference guide, and I am getting good use out of it.

Nice reference.

This is by far the best Linux books that I have ever read.I encourage every Linux user to buy this book.

If your new to linux this book is what you want to have by your side at all times, if you have a question who to do something (as long as it is not distro or hardware specific) this book will have the answer. I choose to buy this because I have been a long time mac terminal user and decided to make the switch to linux and I knew some things wouldn't port straight over, this book has been a life saver and i think it does a better job of explain linux to the new then any other book. But don't think you can't use this book if your an avid linux user, this book servers (just as its title suggest) as a complete reference to linux, so if you looking for a book that can provide more information the the normal man pages (such as how to use it, what's going on) this book is the one to get