Title: good coverage sloppy editing & depends on nonexistent cdrom
Review: Nicely fills some holes left by Wrox's Beginning Linux Programming. Pretty broad coverage if necessarily shallow. Not just a compilation of howtos and faqs, but decent writing. BUT! Constant references to a CDROM that doesnt exist, and generally these are where a fragment of a sample program is being discussed and you want the whole listing, and there isnt one. There are 3 authors. One, Mark Whitis, maintains a site with the code for *his* chapters only. He says to see the sites of the other authors for the code to their chapters, but doesnt provide a link to their sites. His comments on publisher SAMS are so damning, you wonder why he published with them. This is an expensive book (arent all these halfwitted computer books?) for someone to buy only to face these omissions. Too bad too, because its coverage is otherwise what I wanted. BEWARE!
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