Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional) Shashank Sharma, Keir Thomas Apress, 2007 Coauthor Shashank Sharma discusses the book Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional guides you through the tasks most new Linux users desire to perform while explaining potentially confusing concepts along the way. It will steer you through system customization opportunities and common tasks like listening to audio CDs and MP3s, watching movies, and performing office- and ...             Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition Kirk Bauer, Nathan Campi Apress, 2008 Whether you need a network of ten Linux PCs and a server or a datacenter with a few thousand Unix nodes, you need to know how to automate much of the installation, configuration, and standard system administration. Build your network once using cfengine, and the network build will work, without user intervention, on any hardware you prefer. 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You will learn about portable scripting and how to use the same syntax and design principles for all shells. ...             Beginning SUSE Linux, Second Edition (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)13 reviews Keir Thomas Apress, 2006 Outstanding for a Linux newbee + Your all around review... + Really helped this newbie + Good beginner book on SLED             Pro OGRE 3D Programming (Pro)17 reviews Gregory Junker Apress, 2006 Just the right amount + Almost best buy for novice 3D programmers + Pro OGRE 3D Programming (Pro) The book presents all the crucial information in a very organized manner. I found the presentation to be concise and easy to read. Warning: The book does not teach you how to make a game, It explains the core api functions of OGRE and some background behind them. This should give you a good ...             Practical MythTV: Building a PVR and Media Center PC9 reviews Stewart Smith, Michael Still Apress, 2007 An Excellent Book If you are interested in getting a Mythbox up and running, this is a great book to start with. True, all of the information you need is available on-line, but here it is organized and at your finger tips. The book is clear, well written, well organized, and reasonably complete and accurate. ...             Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Approach) Darl Kuhn, Charles Kim, ... Apress, 2008 Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs is an example–based book on managing Oracle Database in a Linux environment. Covering commonly used distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux, the book is written for database administrators who need to get work done and lack the luxury of curling up fireside with a stack of Linux documentation. The book is task–oriented: ...             The Definitive Guide to GCC, Second Edition (Definitive Guide)8 reviews William von Hagen Apress, 2006 Excellent Reference + A lot of useful information about the gcc compiler + The Ultimate GCC Book The Definitive Guide to GCC covers the ways to use the GCC Compiler to compile programs written in C, C++, Fortran, and Java. For each of these languages the author discusses how it is implemented within the GCC compiler. While all the sections of the book are good the parts I found the best were ...             Pro Nagios 2.0 (Expert's Voice in Open Source)7 reviews James Turnbull Apress, 2006 Ideal introduction to Nagios for all skill levels + One of the better Nagios books + Good introductory text + Nagios Network and Server monitoring + Great resource for a great product             Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional) Akkana Peck Apress, 2008 From first installation to advanced image manipulation techniques, Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition explains how anyone can utilize The GIMP: a free, open source image manipulation program. You will learn how to install The GIMP on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X platforms. Once you’ve installed the application, you’ll learn about the interface and ...             Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Third Edition (Beginning from Novice to Professional)3 reviews Keir Thomas, Jaime Sicam Apress, 2008 Linux Beginners Are Well Served by this Book + Ubuntu Newbie + Excellent book to replace windows base tasks I've owned and used the first two editions of "Beginning Ubuntu Linux". Third Edition. All three are thick books that contain considerable useful information. All you need to quickly get up and running with Ubuntu. Along with the "Linux Bible", it is the best introduction & transition tool into the ...             Foundations of Qt® Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)1 review Johan Thelin Apress, 2007 Good read - author knows the topic well Qt is an interesting framework to work within, and is a fantastic answer to cross-platform nightmares that I've experienced. Instead of designing and/or reprogramming for each new platform (such as writing native software that you already have in Windows in C++ for Mac in Objective-C), Qt allows ...             Beginning OpenOffice 3: From Novice to Professional (Beginning) Andy Channelle Apress, 2008 If you want to fly with OpenOffice 3.0, publish to your local wiki, create web presentations, or add maps to your documents, Beginning OpenOffice 3 is the book for you. You will arm yourself with new OpenOffice.org 3.0 tools, from creating wiki docs to automating complex design steps. OpenOffice has been downloaded almost 100 million times, and this is the book that explains why. You ...             From Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line11 reviews Oliver Kiddle, Jerry Peek, ... Apress, 2004 Great Info! + The Comeback of the Command Line + A must read for casual shell users. + Must have + stimulating!             Pro Open Source Mail: Building an Enterprise Mail Solution (Pro)4 reviews Curtis Smith Apress, 2006 Great Resource + Well structured book for first time mail server systems + Good for beginners...if you're more advanced, look elsewhere. + Excellent Book             Foundations of GTK+ Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)11 reviews Andrew Krause Apress, 2007 Great book + Good but could be even better + Foundations of GTK+ Development Review + FINALLY!!!!!             The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick (Definitive Guide)5 reviews Michael Still Apress, 2005 Nice Introduction To ImageMagick + Good guide to an excellent product with poor documentation 'The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick' by Michael Still is a nice guide which covers an extremely powerful set of tools that is lacking in documentation. Note that I say the word 'nice' and not GREAT. I wanted this to be great, I truly did. I use ImageMagick on a nearly daily basis and while I ...             Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)40 reviews Akkana Peck Apress, 2006 Both Instruction and Textbook + Excellent overview of GIMP and image editing + Great Book + Beginning Gimp + GIMP is different so you need this book             Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Open Source)7 reviews Chris F.A. Johnson Apress, 2005 My Shell is a Programming Language? + Useful + Unleash the power of the shell + Handy Shell Guide for Unix/Linux Users + Great resource for Bourne-type shell scripting