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“To say that this book is packed with useful resources, ideas
and pointers would be a heavy understatement. It boasts some 25
chapters, each with its subsections, so you can rest assured it
isn’t light bed time reading material. Let’s shed some light on the
material in it. As I’ve stated, it consists of 25 chapters, of
which 24 are packed with information on various software
packages.“The authors have tried to organize it into 3 major parts, the
introduction, the toolbox and the afterword. As you already might
guess, the introduction deals with some real basics of Linux, such
as describing the concepts behind some of the licences (ie, GPL),
Linux kernel, reconfiguring it, and such. Not much space is spent
on it, as it’s not a linux system administration book.“The real flesh of the book is the toolbox section, which
contains all the really useful information in the book. It spreads
from chapter 2 to 24, just to give you the idea. Now, what I’d
usually do is describe each chapter in brief, but as there are far
too many chapters to discuss, I’ll stick with the authors
organization of chapters into larger sections. Basic topics of
network and communications are covered through chapters 2-9,
containing information on subjects like remote control,
masquerading, IPChains, even PLIP, Samba, undernets, secure web
mail service and such. Surprising eh? Like I said, this is not
“Running Linux” or “Linux System Administration Book”, but a book
of a different kind…”