Title: Overall, it is a good book.
Product review: To sum it up, 3rd edition is a good book. Although I prefer O'Reilly over SAMS, this book provides information on quite a few programs. Some of the subjects are bash, pdksh, tcsh, FTP,groff, vi, emacs, TeX, LaTeX, XFree86, SLIP/PPP, Wabi, and StarOffice.Some chapters go into depth while others tend to talk about the subject in a general manner. For example, they might have described the kernel in more detail. However, as I mentioned earlier, it describes many programs in detail.Since this book is 1,114 pages, many of your questions about Linux will be answered. But, not all of the topics Tim Parker covers you will use, so I classify the book as a reference. The 'user level' is Intermediate to Advanced, so I would not recommend Linux Unleashed to a complete beginner. Overall, it is a good (but not great) book.
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