"This book, the contents of which should be evident in the self
explanatory title, makes you feel a bit revolutionary. It isn't
just the catchy headings, which are clever paraphrasings of song
titles and geeky cultural refecences; it's also the air of genuine
excitment which permeates the pages, and makes you feel inspired
during and after the reading process. I think many people's
continuing use of Mircosoft, even when they know about the
insecurities, and the bugs, and the horror, is caused by inertia.
And this is just the book to get them up and off their swivel
chairs! Tony Bove has compiled a book that is informative and easy
to read and understand--you start thinking 'hey, migration would be
fun! Find me a free software alternative!.' Bove is the author of a
companion website, Get Off Microsoft which is an excellent resource
package full of links and comparisons to explore for those
considering migration..."
"Any system or network administrator will know the importance of
applying patches to the various software running on their servers
be it the numerous bug fixes or upgrades. Now when you are
maintaining just a single machine, this is really a simple affair
of downloading the patches and applying them on your machine. But
what happens when you are managing multiple servers and hundreds of
client machines? How do you keep all these machines under your
control up to date with the latest bug fixes? Obviously, it is a
waste of time and bandwidth to individually download all the
patches and security fixes for each machine. This is where this
book named 'Linux Patch Management - Keeping Linux systems up to
date' authored by Michael Jang gains significance. This book
released under the Bruce Perens' open source series aims to address
the topic of patch management in detail..."
