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Review: It should have occurred to me, when I foolishly purchased this book, that a handle like "Maddog" was not auspicious. This book is poorly written and its treatment of the subject matter is not worthy of a book devoted to Linux. The ancient copy of Red Hat hardly justifies the asking price. The instructions are incomplete and superficial. Insult was added to injury, however, in the section on the configuration of X-Window. "Maddog" suggested that if you were not successful in getting X running you should; "buy a solution", or "take a trip to the South Pacific". I was not amused. Someone who buys this type of book, to learn about an operating system on his home computer, wants concise information. I didn't expect a compendium, but the combination of glibness and lack of clear, basic information was more than I could tolerate. This book went back to the store! Unless you have twenty bucks burning a hole in your pocket, save yourself the trouble.
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