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Hacking Knoppix (ExtremeTech) Review by Jerry Saperstein
Mediocre rip-off of the O'Reilly title on the same subject
This is the first ExtremeTech title I've ordered - and if this is an example of their overall quality, it will quite likely be the last.
"Hacking Knoppix" is a mediocre rip-off of the much better O'Reilly title Knoppix Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools.
Chapter 1, for example, is entitled "Unraveling the Knoppix Toolkit Maze" which is nothing more than an overview of using several common Linux applications such as OpenOffice. Hardly "hacking" in any true sense of the word. From covering total basics, author Granneman then immerses you in "Asessing Security with Knoppix" and "Clustering with Knoppix". Let me see if I can grasp the logic of this: the first chapter is incredibly elementary and deals with the basics of a common application suite and within 150 pages is dealing with clustering and assessing security?
No.
This is simply a rip-off. It's a collection of "wisdom" gleaned from online sources and put between sazzy covers as a guide to "hacking Knoppix".
More like simply a device to separate you from a few of your hard-earned dollars. Leave this one for the dollar remainder table. As well, I would be extremely wary of any ExtremeTech title: judging by this example, it is a series intended only to exploit the O'Reilly hacks series which are far better.
Jerry