Review: The Linux Cookbook
Allez Cuisine!
The Linux Cookbook is a collection of "recipes" for doing various tasks with your Linux machine. Where the Cookbook shines, though is the sheer number and variety of these recipes. There are plenty of varied tasks covered in the book, from the simple 'How do I copy a file?' to the more complex 'How do I archive a web site?', Six chapters deal with the various aspects of text: analyzing, searching and replacing, grammar checking, and formatting. There are even chapters dealing with the less-explored topics of customizing X, setting up reminders, and editing sound files.
Recipe Format:
The recipe format is both the book's strongest feature and its weakest point. The recipes make for a well-organized and logical structure to find information. Each point and sub-point is clearly marked, and makes for a very quick and enjoyable read. Unfortunately, topics that could benefit from a different approach are just not covered thoroughly. In the section for listing files, ls is well covered, while Midnight Commander is briefly introduced. This wouldn't bother me as much, except Midnight Commander and Mozilla URLs are given at the beginning of the section. This presentation could also lead people to think the material presented is the only way, or the best way to do these commands. There is only one method mentioned for shutting down a Linux machine; the venerable CTRL-ALT-DEL. No mention is made in the book of the shutdown command. Granted, CTRL-ALT-DEL will get the job done, but I'm not sure I would have presented it as the best, or only way to shut down a Linux machine. [T - Especially when on many distros, CTRL-ALT-DELETE is configured to restart rather than shut down the machine; this behavior, though, is configurable through /etc/inittab.]
Season to taste:
As I've mentioned in the previous section, some of the commands the author chose as his answers are quite curious to me. In the section to find hostnames from IP addresses, the author has chosen to use the command "dig" rather than the command I generally use "nslookup". Granted, "dig" gives other useful information aside from the IP and hostname, but the author doesn't seem to care about the additional information when presenting the output of the command.
This book also concentrates on using GNU and Open Source software for it's solutions. There is no mention of software that is not strictly Open Source. The only package information is for the Debian distribution by providing the apt name for retrieving the package. No other distribution is mentioned as having packages available. The author's reasoning is that Debian is the only "entirely committed to free software by design" distribution. URL's are provided only for packages that are not distributed by default with Debian, which might prove to be a nuisance for people using other distributions. I found myself trying some recipes, only to find my distribution didn't include that command by default.
Linux is a command-line operating system by default, and this book tries to work within those defaults by providing command-line methods rather than GUI methods. This gets around some of the various intricacies of the various distributions, but might prove confusing for the person who boots up the first time and can't find virtual console one because GDM is running. When appropriate, the book will defer to a GUI tool rather than a command-line tool. The GIMP is briefly discussed for several of the recipes, and GUI programs make up less than 10% of the answers to the recipe questions.
So, what's in it for me?:
It's tough for me to fully recommend this book to everyone. For the beginner, I recommend caution when starting off with this book. They may want to make this book their second book along with an installation and getting started tutorial. Beginners will find this book invaluable once they have a firm grasp on their distribution before being able to fully handle this book. For the seasoned Linux user, I recommend reading this book while putting your suppositions aside. There is plenty of good information to be had in these pages, and the author has tried painstakingly to make the answers in it as relevant to every Linux user as he can. The Linux Cookbook is a useful collection for those who don't mind getting comfortable with their shell prompt and a search engine.
There is also an electronic version of this book available at http://dsl.org/cookbook which is a living version of the printed book; for the sake of this review, only the printed book was reviewed.
You can purchase The Linux Cookbook from Fatbrain.
sure i got fp but does it matter?
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'Allez Cuisine' was a nice touch, but you shoulda used more iron chef references in the article... ;-)
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
im sorry, but when i saw "the linux cookbook" along side the pictue of tux, i suddenly had a mental image of the spunky non-threatening linux mascot, baked in its own juices, with an apple in his mouth.. served up with a side of mashed potatos and gravy.
mmm, linux. delicious.
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- Marco
Curiously if you install Debian testing/woody (the base has frozen) and try to run nslookup you will be told it is obsolete and that you should use dig. I like nslookup and understand it far better than dig so I do like they say and use the -sil option to get rid of the extra crud it spews to tell me this, but I guess there must be a reason for this so I'll have to learn how to dig properly, anyone know it?
Never underestimate the dark side of the Source
As in full of spunk? Filthy dirty grey glops of manseed squirting up inside his cavity?
I like that thinking, bubba!
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
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I think this might be the reason that nlslookup is not mentioned:
[tj@pheonix tj]$ nslookup
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
> exit
dig is much better, IMHO, once you get used to it.
Chilton's Auto Repair Manual for the Plymouth P/T Cruiser
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Spent the last few minutes browsing the online version, and I must say I'm quite impressed. Real usable docs for the average user, but they still tell the nuts and bolts too. Bravo!
(User runs off to order)
TODO: Something witty here...
Thanks to all who voted in the 2001 Troll Awards. I have added up all the votes and here is what came out:
-Best Troll of 2001: Egg Troll
Other Nominees:
Genghis Troll
The WIPO Troll
TRoLLaXoR
Big_Ass_Spork
The Turd Report
sllort
Klerck
Ralph JewHater Nader
-Worst Troll of 2001: WIPO Troll
Other nominees:
CmderTaco
Big Ass Spork
JonKatz
George WIPO Bush
The Lyrics Guy
Flarners
Frank White
Wil Wheaton
Klerck
-Most Improved Troll: WIPO Troll
Other nominees:
The Turd Report
core10k
Big_Ass_Spork
Archie Bunker
Perdida
BankofAmerica_ATM
-Troll Lifetime Achievement Award: The Turd Report
Other nominees:
WIPO Troll
Sunken Kursk
Egg Troll
OSM
The_Messenger
Shoeboy
Big_Ass_Spork
-Best Troll post of 2001: Egg Troll's GPL Troll
Other nominees:
The mimbleton attack
I DO IT WRONG! post
The Turd Report's reports
The 2001 Troll Awards
Taco Snotting FAQ
Egg Troll's C: A Dead Language? troll
anything by The Messenger
-Best CrapFlood Material: ASCII goatse.cx
Other nominations:
Taco Snotting
I DO IT WRONG! post
Any Adeqacy crapola
All AC posts
Klerck's page widening/lengthening posts
-Most hated Slashdot Janitor: Michael
Other nominees:
JonKatz
Roblimo
Timothy
Cliff
Jamie
CmdrTaco
-Slashdot Janitor Most Likely to Get Fired: Jon Katz
Other nominees:
Michael
Timothy
ChrisD
Cliff
Jamie
All of them
-Troll You Would Want to Drink a Beer With: WIPO Troll
Other nominees:
Genghis Troll
TRoLLaXor
Fort Knox
The Turd Report
euroderf
The Messenger
mackga
Egg Troll
The Lyrics Guy
Big Ass Spork
-Troll That You Would Not Want to Be Trapped in an Elevator With: WIPO Troll
Other nominees:
Ghengis Troll
Frank White
Wil Wheaton
Klerck
Any Spork
-Gayest Slashdot Poster: TIE! Big_Ass_Spork or Anonymous Coward
Other nominees:
rasactive
WIPO Troll
Anyone who has something about ignoring ACs in their sig
Will Wheaton
Wakko Warner
Wntrmute
JonKatz
Michael
CowboyNeal
Michael Loves Me!
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They are not dogs! Hot dog companies go round chopping off peoples cocks and putting them in tins! Would you eat a cock?
What linux user is going to buy a book when there is a free version available online? Probably the same amount of people who actually buy boxed versions of linux.
And we just have to look at how the distro companies are doing to know the answer to that question.
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"For the purposes of this book, I will assume that you are using the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, which, of all the major distributions, is the only one designed and assembled in the same manner that the Linux kernel and most other free software is written -- by individuals."
He gave fair warning in the introduction. Maybe he should have called it The Debian Cookbook, but I think that by sticking with one fully free (speech) distro he's showing the true spirit of open-source software.
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What does Linux taste like?
Tastes like free crap.
Ingredients
1 Cluster of Linux Webservers
1 Instance of Slashcode
1 DB of your choice
3 Intelligent Posters
38 Whiny karma-whores, who post frequently and then complain when their 'me too' style posts are modded down.
493 Moderators who never follow the guidelines, even if they've ever bothered to read them.
roughly 400,000 Trolls, flamers, evangelsits, ASCII artists, Katz-bashers, goat-sex linkers, Taco-haters, Microsoft-5uXX0r's and other assorted losers.
Instructions:
Combine listed ingredients in any given environment, heating with a steady stream of press releases from Apple, Microsoft, VA-Linux, the EFF, or the RIAA/MPAA. You can cull these press releases directly from CNet, Wired, Salon, ZDNet, or CNN if you don't have any. Once brought to a roiling boil, let bake under its own heat for as long as you can stand.
Serve chilled, with white wine and flava beans. Serves 2
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
Numerical Recipies - Numerical Recipes in C, 2nd edition is the numerical methods book.
Autobook - GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool.
GGAD - GTK+/Gnome Application Development by Havoc Pennington. I'm not sure which is better, the book or the authors name!
WGA - Writing GNOME Applications by John R. Sheets. Not complete, which is a pity. I'm sure that will change though.
Docbook - The definitive guide to SGML.
CVS book - Open Source Development with CVS by Karl Fogel. It is not quite the complete book, but it is the interesting bits.
FreeBSD Handbook - FreeBSD documentation.
Maximum RPM - Documentation for the RedHat package manager.
Based on that list, can anybody suggest further online books that I may be interested in? (Don't bother telling me about the old O'Reilly books, I know about those)
For the page lengthening post! I will post it with pride!!!
- Marco
Best Slashdot Co
That's because Debian is the only distribution which freezes its releases.
And it is widely known that geeks only 'cook' frozen meals: 3 minutes in the microwave, and eat with a plastic fork.
-- don't discount flying pigs until you have good air defense
F__________ M__________ to
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m00.
Not linux specific (thankfully!), and pretty CLI-oriented, the Unix Power Tools book is something I found really good for learning the neat wrinkles in things like the shell, sed and awk. It's organised as lots of half-page articles which are densely cross-referenced, a little like the Effective C++ series by Scott Meyers or Effective Perl by Joeseph Hall. Published by O'Reilly - it's not an animal book though - it's much bigger. Good for dipping.
"don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
Why is my freaks list getting longer?
Pagelengtheningpost?
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- Marco
Our car-manufacturing company has developed a new revolutionary business model for making cars.
We give away the cars for free and then we sell services for those cars! If you want to we can clean your car, wax it or you can use some of our other services.
We get cash from a couple of VC's, the rest of them simple don't "get it". If we need more we just call "the suits".
R U PPL ST1LL HUNG UP ON LOSERNIX. EVERY1 KNOWZ WINDOWZ IS THE HAX0RS OS. I AM HAX0RING YOUR LINUX BOXEN RIHT N0W F00L!!!!1!!!
B1FF OWNZ J00
when you run nslookup, you get this -- "Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing." so kudos to the author of the book for using dig instead of nslookup. as far as the details of the output; that's exactly the problem. techies like us want to know each and every symbol that 's output. general folks just want to know a specific piece of info. and i think that the book rightly skips on those details. if that book were to document every option/symbol that's output by dig, and by extension, how to configure your DNS server so that dig displays something different when that server is queried; and then how to compile the server so that those options never even get compiled in -- soon you got yourself a 'recompiling UNIX from scratch' book. you gotta start somewhere. don't bash the book for leaving out some details.
Rename the book Linux for Dummies.
...but that is a contradiction? Dumb Linux users? Is there such a thing?
I own about a dozen Linux books now, but this is the best one for actually doing the basic things you need to do to get familiar with using Unix/Linux. I found the formulas for tarring and zipping and untarring and unzipping to be very nice. Just what I needed to know, nothing more, nothing less.
I highly recommend this book to people who have been dual-booting Linux for awhile but are still having a hard time installing software and configuring the environment - stuff too simple for the guys who know what they are doing to even talk about.
I think InformIT still do free online books -- they purchased Macmillan Press' old stuff and used to have many titles online.
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Death will come, and will have your eyes
-- Pavese
Cookbook for a good time:
/etc/inittab
...
1. Edit
2. Change default runlevel to 6
3. Reboot
4. Reboot
5. Reboot
6. Reboot
7. Reboot
8.
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
Another site that carries it is the slashcoded Andamooka (with which I am not associated), which has the dual advantage of carrying many more open source books and permitting registered users to enter their own annotations on line.
I remember how that book spent 4 chapters on how to "cd" into directories.
PS:The "Programming Perl" was my previous favourite reference book, but the online "perldoc" documentation replaces that now.
A regular Linux Journal columnist, Marcel Gagné writes about system administration using a French Chef theme. He has written a book: Linux System Administration: A User's Guide. Look for it at Barnes and Noble
I think...I think it's in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check. -M.C. Escher (1898-1972)
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> ... users who aren't sure which FM to R,
/bin/*
Actually, newbies, don't let him fool you -- it's rm -f, as in:
rm -f
Now you're all set!
Here are some tasty randomly-generated recipes:
;))
http://snoot.org/factory/recipe/
(Sorry, this is OT but not entirely irrelevant.
I can't really agree with that.
Employee of Inrupt, Project Release Manager and Community Manager for Solid
Microwaves are totally overkill. I left the top two 5¼ drive bays open on my Athlon system so I can slide my frozen dinner in there on a styrofoam tray. Cover the openings and I've got fully-cooked lasagna in about 15 minutes.
Advanced Micro(wave) Devices, indeed.
... it's a cookbook!
Sean.OutaHere()
For those who don't know about it: O'Reilly keeps a web page of free, open, and/or out-of-print books available online for your edification at http://www.reilly.com/openbook.
"Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"
You're not serious... are you? (Hmm.. Perhaps HHOK or HHOS could have been appended to your post)
Alex Bischoff
HTML/CSS coder for hire
99% of the time, I find that dig is overkill (and ugly), and instead I use the "host" program (also included with the bind-utils).
>rm -f /bin/*
I remember playing Quake CTF online and asked how to bind the grapple to a key. I think you must be the guy who advised me to type: "unbindall".
Religion is the opium of the people. Evolution is the opium of scientists.
This cookbook demonstrates linux's most fundamental flaw. Seeing on slashdot that this book was both a great reference for users of any experience level and also freely downloadable, I proceeded to dsl.org to get a copy. After downloading, I was able to unzip and untar it, but now have a folder full of 167 files I have no idea what to do with. I presume there's something that needs to be compiled or some install package of sorts, but why all the extra effort. Why can't the linux community pick up on the fact that 'Click here to download Cookbook.pdf or Cookbook.sxg' is what's needed to create a user base capable of putting a dent in Microsoft's market share.
And that, my friend, is the best part about the joke. Ya just...don't...know.
I like leaving my leftover I brought for lunch out in the car until lunchtime during the summer (hold the mayo) so that it's nice and hot when I get to it. Unfortunately my insurance agent wouldn't let me reinsure my car as a household appliance.
i'd venture to guess that the 'linux cookbook' is what apple is secretly calling there plans to bring a unix like experience to the desktop crowd... so the linux cookbook here really is a roasted penguin... hehehe =)
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
Check the RUTE online book. It's impressive.
Books are not software programs! It does not make sense! Who is going to buy a book when it is Free For Download? This must be stopped, because what
will it do for the profressional Authors if more
people write books like this? You are cutting out
your Profits! No author should give a book away. I
do not understand it. What is Open Source doing? Why can't it stick with Linux. Or will other things change, too.
Where are source code for all the free books? I don't see ftp archives or compilers, It Does Not
Make Sense. Who will buy them!