“The Linux titles are coming thick and fast these days. This
offering has a strong Caldera presence, with a number of the
authors working for the company. The early sections of the book
will be useless to anyone using another Linux variant, but later
parts may be helpful to some.“
“The introductory section has a chapter that does a very good,
and mostly even-handed, job of explaining Linux and the variety of
forms available. The chapter on installation is not written to the
same standard. The user is primarily walked through the automated
installation system, and certain parts of that, such as
repartitioning the hard drive on an existing system, may just be
slightly harder than the book makes out.”
“The second section, on using OpenLinux, isn’t, really.
Actually, it concentrates on using the K Desktop Environment (KDE),
and hardly mentions the basic Linux system at all. There is an
introduction to, and navigation of, the desktop, customization, the
KDE Desktop Manager, KDE applications, and KOffice.”