3. Books on General Unix/Linux

3.1 Linux Installation and Administration

Linux Installation and Getting Started

Welsh, Matt; LDP; 1997. Available on the LDP home page, or directly at http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/gs/.

How to bring up Linux. Explains a lot of Linux basics. Covers basic system administration.

Linux System Administrator's Guide

Wirzenius, Lars; LDP; 1997. Available on the LDP home page, or directly at http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/sag/.

An excellent first book on how to maintain and administer a Linux system.

Essential System Administration (Second Edition)

Frisch, Aeleen; O'Reilly; 1995; ISBN 1-56592-127-5; $34.95.
See http://www.ora.com/catalog/esa2/noframes.html.

More in-depth coverage of normal system-administration tasks. Not Linux-specific but contains Linux material.

3.2 Using Unix & Linux

Linux in a Nutshell (2nd edition)

Hekman, Jessica P. et al.; O'Reilly; ISBN 1-56592-585-8,; 1999; 628 pp. $29.95.
See http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut2/.

According to O'Reilly, "The Desktop Reference for Linux". For Linux users this obsoletes their "Unix In a Nutshell" which was SVr4/Solaris-oriented.

Running Linux (3rd Edition)

Welsh, Matt, & Matthias Kallw Dalheimer & Kaufman, Lar; O'Reilly; ISBN 1-56592-469-X; 1999; 650pp; $34.95.
See http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/.

Everything you need in order to understand, install, and use the Linux operating system. Excellent beginner's book.

Hands-on-Linux

Sobell, Mark G.; Addison-Wesley; ISBN ISBN 0-201-32569-1; 1998; 1015 pp.

Just what the title says -- practical tutorials in basic Unix, shells, editors, mail programs, networking, Web tools, and utilities. Covers some system administration fundamentals. (This appears to be a repackaging of 1997's ``A Practical Guide to Linux'' from the same author, without Caldera OpenLinux Lite included.)

3.3 System Security

Practical Unix and Internet Security (2nd Edition)

Garfinkel, Simpson, and Spafford, Gene; O'Reilly Associates; ISBN 0-56592-148-8; 1004pp; 1996; $39.95.
See http://www.ora.com/catalog/puis/noframes.html.

Ronald P. Miller: "Some overlap with Essential System Admin., but all in all a solid book on security, especially for those aspiring to allow multiple-user, dial-up/net access to their Linux boxes."

Firewalls & Internet Security

Cheswick, William R. & Bellovin, Steven M.; Addison-Wesley; 1994; ISBN 0-201-63357-4; 320pp.