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Linux Network Administrator's Guide 3rd (third) Edition by Tony Bautts, Terry Dawson, Gregor N. Purdy published by O'Reilly Media
Linux Network Administrator's Guide by Bautts, Tony, Dawson, Terry, Purdy, Gr...
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First published September 1, 1994
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May 22, 2020
This book is the first edition of the Linux Network Administrator's guide. And when I bought this book somewhere in the 2nd half of the 1990's, this book was the first O'Reilly book I owned and comes from a time in the offline era where lot's of knowledge (even about computer-ish things) had to be obtained in an offline world. Even today I'm still impressed by the book itself, the 'RepKover' way of binding still bring this feeling of quality and even though it is one of my oldest tech books it doesn't show it effective age. Hell the book even 'smells' like an O'Reilly (something current O'Reilly don't do anymore).
As for the contents, from one end reading this (in the first edition !, there is also a 3rd edition which stems from 2005) it already contained some stuff that was even vintage in '95, things like UUCP, YP, NIS, ... (things I wouldn't have known if I hadn't read about them in this book). It cover 0.99 and 1.* Linux kernels which were even before 'my' time. Another big part is just a trip down memory lane, the concepts still exist but the practical implementation has changed. And some rock solid concepts are even relevant today.
Anyhow, I read this book for nostalgia purposes (success !) and now the 'Printed on Recycled Paper' will take a next step in the circular economy.
As for the contents, from one end reading this (in the first edition !, there is also a 3rd edition which stems from 2005) it already contained some stuff that was even vintage in '95, things like UUCP, YP, NIS, ... (things I wouldn't have known if I hadn't read about them in this book). It cover 0.99 and 1.* Linux kernels which were even before 'my' time. Another big part is just a trip down memory lane, the concepts still exist but the practical implementation has changed. And some rock solid concepts are even relevant today.
Anyhow, I read this book for nostalgia purposes (success !) and now the 'Printed on Recycled Paper' will take a next step in the circular economy.
November 24, 2017
A quick re-read of this confirms that its status as an oldie but goodie. Despite some space wasted on obsolete technologies, the chapter on DNS, at least, is still quite relevant. But it is probably time for another revision!
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January 31, 2016Read the first edition, then this one... must be close to 10 years ago.
July 2, 2013
learned from it but not as much as I expected.. pass
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