[attrition] review: Book: Fedora Linux

[lyger]

http://attrition.org/~lyger/works/reviews/fedora.html

Chris Tyler - Amazon.com
ISBN: 0-596-52682-2
O'Reilly Media Inc., Copyright 2007

About fifty percent of the way into this book, I quit taking notes and 
just kept reading. Even though the front cover labels this book as "a 
concise task-based approach", a more accurate description would be "a 
completely-thorough-to-the-point-of-being-scary approach." Chris Tyler 
clearly knows his stuff; after 600 pages of technical detail about Fedora 
and Linux in general, all I can say is "dot... dot... dot...".

The book starts off with a chapter titled "Installing Fedora". Good 
choice. From there, other chapters include desktop usage, notebook usage, 
system management, storage administration, networking, and security. One 
middle chapter about "package management" will mean little to those with 
no interest in Fedora or Red Hat, but the chapter itself, as well as the 
book in general, is fairly well detailed about RPM and 'yum' technologies. 
In my opinion, chapter 5 (Package Management) wasn't particularly useful 
for me, but Fedora and RH junkies will probably find more than a few 
tidbits of information that should be useful, especially the installation, 
roll-backs, and creation of RPM packages.

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