Book review: Self service Linux
Linux is by reputation and in reality a highly stable platform. Being free software means that you can see its inner actions without the lead coat of proprietary license shielding. Problem determination with transparent source, if mastered within the Linux environment, enables the problem solver to focus efficiently on the issues at hand. New administrators tend to take longer to solve the more horribly tricky and very infrequent issues than those that have burnt their wizened fingers on the obtuse over the course of long years. Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination by Mark Wilding and Dan Behman and published by Prentice Hall may help you avoid some of the pain and burden of such a normal, infrequent, but extended learning.
My first impression of the book was that the authors have accumulated much detailed experience. Under the unusual situation that the Linux environment is badly misbehaving, then Linux problem determination requires much learning of the sprawling underlying details. Mark Wildings and Dan Behmans writing starts with a deceptively simple chapter on best practices and then hits you full in the face with chapter after chapter of technological Linux environment related skill development.
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