[ale] Recommendation for RHEL-specific Book

[Jim Kinney]

My best source of RHEL info is from RedHats own documentation library
and their knowlegebase. Most of the deadtree books I've seen for RHEL
are focused on prepping for the RHCE exams.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Brian Pitts<brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Is there a book that takes a similar approach to covering Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux that Martin Krafft's "The Debian System: Concepts and
> Techniques" takes to explaining Debian? In other words, not another
> general linux book but one that explains in detail what makes Red Hat
> Red Hat?
>
> To quote from a two reviews of the Debian book:
>
> I liked this book because, finally, an author has had the presence of
> mind to write a book that did not regurgitate Unix commands like 'ls'
> and 'vi' for the gazillionth time. The focus is on debian, and only on
> those parts that make debian unique -- the culture of the "debian
> project", the notoriety for its alleged difficulty of installation
> (which I have not experienced), the speed and timeliness of its releases
> (not!), and homage to that supreme program -- apt-get and its close
> relatives.
>
> Prospective TDS readers should understand that this book is unlike any I
> have read on operating systems. Readers will not have to skip pages on
> setting up Apache or configuring BIND, thankfully! Instead, TDS covers
> core system administration subjects to a degree I have not seen
> elsewhere. I do not mean that TDS delves into kernel structures in the
> way that McKusick and Neville-Neil's "The Design and Implementation of
> the FreeBSD Operating System" does. Rather, Krafft takes readers on an
> inside tour of the how and why of Debian. Rather than just explaining a
> technique or tool, the author discusses the overall problem, possible
> ways to approach it, and Debian's solutions. He presents pros and cons
> for each, and then demonstrates usage with command line syntax and
> sample output.
>
> This is the type of material I'd like to read about RHEL. Is it out there?
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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