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Title: Good for its intended purpose- beginners look elsewhere!
Review: Let me first say that the "Nutshell"-titled books in the O'Reilly series are in general not intended for beginners. This book is a reference manual and is organized as such (alphabetically, by command, etc.)- there are no tutorials here. Beginners are strongly recommended to read the excellent and thorough "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh, also published by O'Reilly. Experienced Unix/Linux users will find this book an indispensable Linux reference, covering all of the commands, switches, and programs commonly found in the distributions(though one might argue that experienced users should be using Linux's man pages for that purpose). Nevertheless, it is an excellent and thorough hard-copy reference for the compendious Linux OS.
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