| Ubuntu "Unix" book reviewed |
Feb. 04, 2009
 Mark G. Sobell's freshly revised reference work on Ubuntu Linux may be the most impressive computer book I've seen in the last 10 years. If you are currently stranded with a pile of abandoned computers on a desert isle, I'm telling you, this is the book.
(Click for larger view of book cover)
When my review copy arrived, I met the postman at the door, and immediately wondered who might have sent me a box full of lead fishing weights. Or perhaps it was shotgun shells, I guessed, hefting the package. Opening it, I found instead 1,200+ large-format pages, on high-quality paper, all obsessively cross-referenced and indexed to a "T".
All the other Ubuntu books (well, both of them) that have crossed my desk have been quickly shuffled off to newby friends whose commitment to acquiring deep Unix knowledge I frankly doubted. I originally planned to do the same with this one. However, I don't think that's going to work out. I'm going to have to keep this one around. In times like these, you never know when you might find yourself stranded on a desert isle, surrounded by piles of abandoned PCs.
(Click below to read the complete hands-on review)
Review: A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux
-- Henry Kingman
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