This compact book is the perfect solution for the hobbyist or the professional who is familiar with Linux and maybe more likely to use binary installs rather than compiling from source code but wants to get quickly up to speed, solve problems, and perform tasks. The fast, focused approach includes topics such as installation, set up, the shell, the desktop, apps, and more, while avoiding extraneous information that is too low level or too high end. The coverage moves quickly into the most popular applications for the Web, productivity suites, and e-mail; setting up a server (Apache, Samba, CUPS); and security.
For all command line junkies out there. Although Fedora versions spin by so fast, the core of the system is more or less the same since the days of Fedora 9 when I installed it for the first time.This is not a book to read from start to end but a handy reference to keep on your desktop side and it will be become very very useful when -- for some hollistic reason you 'll keep telling your friends many times later -- you 'll end up having a Linux with no GUI. .