Linux for Windows Addicts: A Twelve Step Program for Habitual Windows Users. - Softcover

Miller, Michael Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072130814 ISBN 13: 9780072130812

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2000

Synopsis

The twelve step program for Windows network administrators and power users ready to overcome the Microsoft habit.

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About the Author

Michael Joseph Miller (San Jose, CA) has managed NetWare, NT, and Linux networks. Born, grown, educated, and employed in Silicon Valley, he managers and uses Linux, Solaris, and Windows systems at PROLIFIC Inc. He has written Migrating from NetWare to NT and Managing an Inherited NetWare Network for Sybex.

From the Back Cover

Break Free!

Linux for Windows Addicts offers a step-by-step approach to breaking the habit of Windows dependence. Awaken your computing potential. Rediscover programming power and administrative freedom with the independent operating system that is easy to learn and free to own and use. Experience the healing power of Linux to create and manage your own stable, safe, scalable computing system. Reclaim your robustness and recognize the errors of your Windows ways. Begin your recovery today!

• Learn and leverage the advantages of open source software
• You decide: Re-platform completely to Linux OS or introduce and run Linux concurrently with Windows
• From e-mail to administration to web serving, master the computer system many predict will replace Windows
• Fine-tune the operating system developed collaboratively by programmers, administrators, and users
• Compile and install your own system using kernels, shells, and modules
• Network with standard devices, plus integrate with other operating systems

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072130814
• ISBN 13: 9780072130812
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 414