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Daniel J. Barrett

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The United States

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Computers, Internet, Linux

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Daniel J. Barrett, Ph.D., has been teaching and writing about Linux, the internet, and related technologies for more than 30 years. Dan has also been a software engineer, heavy metal singer, system administrator, university lecturer, birthday party magician, and humorist.

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Happy 20th anniversary, Linux Pocket Guide

The new 20th Anniversary release of Linux Pocket Guide is now available on the web and on Kindle. (The print edition arrives in stores in late March.) You might be surprised to learn that 20 years ago, this book almost didn’t get written. When I proposed the first edition to O’Reilly in 2004, they expressed disbelief about the idea. “It’s not possible to write a short book that covers Linux…

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	Linux Pocket Guide 4.09 avg rating — 686 ratings — published 2004 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide by Daniel J. Barrett (Goodreads Author), Richard E. Silverman 3.74 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2001 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Efficient Linux at the Command Line 4.29 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide: Take Command of Your Mac 3.74 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Linux Security Cookbook by Daniel J. Barrett (Goodreads Author), Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MediaWiki: Wikipedia and Beyond 3.46 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Responsible Software Engineering: With Real-World Case Studies from Google really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bandits on the Information Superhighway (What You Need to Know) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	NetResearch: Finding Information Online 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“LVM provides no inherent redundancy. If one physical volume dies, you lose the whole volume group. For more safety, run LVM on top of RAID;”
― Daniel J. Barrett, Linux Pocket Guide

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