Have you ever had deja vu? I re-read books on occasion, because I like them, and every once in a while I’ll re-read a book that I think I’m reading for the first time. Then I’ll sit there with this twisted-up look on my face, wondering why all the words seem so familiar. Then I remember when and where I saw them last.
I’ve been reading the new Fedora™ 7 Unleashed book by Andrew and Paul Hudson, and I’ve had that feeling several times. So I’ve made my face and wracked my brain, trying to figure out how I’ve read this before. The answer? I read Fedora Core 6 Unleashed and Fedora Core 5 Unleashed before that. » Read more
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed
Author: Tammy Fox
Publisher: Sams
Publication date: April 20, 2007
Disclosure: Tammy Fox was the founding editor of Red Hat Magazine.
I’m a 32-year-old software engineer working for Red Hat. The last time I did a book review, I was reading The Great Gatsby when I really wanted to focus on the upcoming seventh grade spring dance. Fortunately I can now read (and review) books that I find interesting. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed by Tammy Fox fits the bill. It is, as its name implies, an admin guide and reference guide. It provides useful information on a subject that I am perpetually interested in, is well written, and there are no subtle interactions between characters that the author uses to display his dissatisfaction with the behavior of the nouveau rich (or whatever it was The Great Gatsby was about). So when I was offered the opportunity to review Fox’s new admin guide, the “easy-A” opportunist in me jumped at the chance.
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I’ve always liked Trolltech. They make Qt, the cross platform application development framework that forms the basis of the K Desktop Environment (KDE–my desktop of choice). While I don’t normally work in the world of GUI application development, I did like that they provided the embedded Qtopia product, so they definitely kept my interest. (Embedded development was my career in a former life). Recently, they’ve showcased Qtopia in their Greenphone SDK, a fully functional GSM phone with a big video touchscreen, running an embedded Linux kernel. Its a nice looking platform from the marketing glossies, so when Trolltech contacted Red Hat to get us to review their SDK, I jumped at the chance.
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