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Sams Teach Yourself Red Hat(R) Fedora(TM) 4 Linux All in One Review by Los Angeles Linux Newbie
The most complete Fedora for beginners.
This book is the best beginner's introduction to Fedora Core 4 that I could find after browsing through the collections of several bookstores.
Fedora Core 4 is one of the easiest to use Linuxes and with the book's instructions I was able to install it and use it without any problems. I almost didn't need the rest of the book because Fedora Core 4 worked great for me right off the bat, I could access my flash drive and home DSL network without needing to learn anything and OpenOffice and Firefox (the web browser, like Internet Explorer) were easy to find in the start menu.
I did learn a lot about using my digital camera in Linux and perfecting my photos with GIMP (also included), and set my computer up as a web server for my son to experiment with so that he can learn to make web pages.
Overall I like this book because it seems to cover a lot of ground, all the way from installing Fedora Core up through esoteric topics like command line programming and scripting and network servers, and it does everything in a step-by-step way, "do this, then do this, then do that" rather than making useless generalizations or giving incomprehensible bullet lists of technical jargon like some of the other Linux books seem to do.
The other reviewer is right in that there are some typos here and there, but none of them make anything in the text wrong as far as I can tell. The book and its examples all work great for me, it's just one of those things, what book doesn't have a few typos?