bounce is this: for the price of a typical tech-book list $ 35, you get's beginners' survey McCarty Bill and Red Hat 7.2, with 60 value $ with Red Hat's own retail price. McCarty's introduction claims that the two sets of CDs, printed with the O'Reilly logo, contains "everything you need to install and configure your own Red Hat Linux system." But is it really Red Hat 7.2? Economic block supports the purchase of books and a separate support contract from Red Hat, if needed. His chapter on RPM, Red Hat Package Manager, a brief but useful, and his one-page discussion of Red Hat Network support options $ 20-a-month is too short to be useful, but contains enough hints to allow new members to keep modest expectations. Brevity and speed are the strength of the book, such as sliding McCarty of the highlights of one configuration protocol to another. To complete the basic knowledge, I recommend Matt Welch's unrivaled Running Linux as the entry point for serious Linux system administration. Rush it, McCarty blurs the differences between Linux distributions, leaving the reader wondering why Red Hat was chosen for a book-length coverage. Conversely, reference to HOWTOs is relegated to the appendix on the boot process. In the end, Learning Red Hat Linux should be viewed as an inexpensive way to obtain legitimate CDs of Red Hat 7.2, with installation documentation that exceeds the norm.