Praise for Previous Editions of A Practical
Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
“Since I’m in an educational environment, I found the content of Sobell’s
book to be right on target and very helpful for anyone managing Linux
in the enterprise. His style of writing is very clear. He builds up to the
chapter exercises, which I find to be relevant to real-world scenarios a
user or admin would encounter. An IT/IS student would find this book a
valuable complement to their education. The vast amount of informa-
tion is extremely well balanced and Sobell manages to present the con-
tent without complicated asides and meandering prose. This is a ‘must
have’ for anyone managing Linux systems in a networked environment
or anyone running a Linux server. I would also highly recommend it to
an experienced computer user who is moving to the Linux platform.”
—Mary Norbury
IT Director
Barbara Davis Center
University of Colorado at Denver
from a review posted on slashdot.org
“I had the chance to use your UNIX books when I when was in college
years ago at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. I have to say that your
books are among the best! They’re quality books that teach the theo-
retical aspects and applications of the operating system.”
—Benton Chan
IS Engineer
“The book has more than lived up to my expectations from the many
reviews I read, even though it targets FC2. I have found something very
rare with your book: It doesn’t read like the standard technical text, it
reads more like a story. It’s a pleasure to read and hard to put down.
Did I say that?! :-)”
—David Hopkins
Business Process Architect
“Thanks for your work and for the book you wrote. There are really few
books that can help people to become more efficient administrators of
different workstations. We hope (in Russia) that you will continue
bringing us a new level of understanding of Linux/UNIX systems.”
—Anton Petukhov
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“Mark Sobell has written a book as approachable as it is authoritative.”
—Jeffrey Bianchine
Advocate, Author, Journalist
“Excellent reference book, well suited for the sysadmin of a Linux clus-
ter, or the owner of a PC contemplating installing a recent stable Linux.
Don’t be put off by the daunting heft of the book. Sobell has striven to
be as inclusive as possible, in trying to anticipate your system adminis-
tration needs.”
—Wes Boudville
Inventor
“A Practical Guide to Red Hat? Linux? is a brilliant book. Thank you
Mark Sobell.”
—C. Pozrikidis
University of California at San Diego
“This book presents the best overview of the Linux operating system that
I have found. . . . [It] should be very helpful and understandable no mat-
ter what the reader’s background: traditional UNIX user, new Linux
devotee, or even Windows user. Each topic is presented in a clear, com-
plete fashion and very few assumptions are made about what the reader
knows. . . . The book is extremely useful as a reference, as it contains a
70-page glossary of terms and is very well indexed. It is organized in
such a way that the reader can focus on simple tasks without having to
wade through more advanced topics until they are ready.”
—Cam Marshall
Marshall Information Service LLC
Member of Front Range UNIX
Users Group [FRUUG]
Boulder, Colorado
“Conclusively, this is THE book to get if you are a new Linux user and
you just got into RH/Fedora world. There’s no other book that dis-
cusses so many different topics and in such depth.”
—Eugenia Loli-Queru
Editor in Chief
OSNews.com
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Praise for Other Books by Mark G. Sobell
“This book is a very useful tool for anyone who wants to ‘look under
the hood’ so to speak, and really start putting the power of Linux to
work. What I find particularly frustrating about man pages is that they
never include examples. Sobell, on the other hand, outlines very clearly
what the command does and then gives several common, easy-to-
understand examples that make it a breeze to star
