The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf - Softcover

Siever, Ellen; Spainbour, Stephen; Figgins, Stephen; Hekman, Jessica Perry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596002084 ISBN 13: 9780596002084

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2001

Synopsis

This package comprises a CD-ROM and a paperbound text, Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd ed. The CD-ROM is a compilation of six O'Reilly titles for Linux users running web servers and building databases. Intended as a reference library, it contains searchable versions of Running Linux, 3rd ed. , Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd ed. , CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd ed. , Apache: The Definitive Guide, 2nd ed. , My SQL & mSQL , and Programming the Perl DBI . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

Review

For every Linux consultant who goes to job sites with a four-pound computer and 15 pounds of books, O'Reilly & Associates has a solution: The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf. It's a searchable collection of six books on the subject of the Linux operating system and its role as a platform for Web sites. The six included books are:

• Running Linux, Third Edition
• Linux in a Nutshell, Third Edition
• CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition
• Apache: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
• MySQL & mSQL
• Programming the Perl DBI

It's all there: Linux, HTTP services, databases and scripting. Linux in a Nutshell also comes with this kit in its traditional paperbound form.

Admittedly a CD-ROM is not as easy to read as a book but all the information is here, it weighs nothing and you save about two-thirds of what you'd spend to buy the six books separately.

Though O'Reilly deserves praise for amalgamating related books in a compact form, they need to improve the search utility that ties them all together. As it stands the unified search feature is a Java applet that does full-text searches on all six books. Unfortunately the results of a typical search aren't well formatted and not specific enough. The search utility would be much more useful if the books' contents were more finely chopped. Using the cross-book searching in the combined index (in which you select the initial letter of the term you want and scan or search through a list of indexed terms from all the books) is more useful and takes you to the general vicinity of where you want to be. Most of the time you'll know which of the six books contains the answer you want, so you can scan that book's index individually. --David Wall

Review

Regardless of which Linux flavor you run, you'll find something in this bundle that will make you wonder how you ever lived without it. -- Jon Holman, UnixReview.com, Dec 2001

Regardless of which Linux flavor you run, you’ll find something here that will make you wonder how you ever lived without it. -- Jon Homan, Unix Review, Dec 2001

The Bookshelf is of invaluable help to serious Linux users and programmers by making help on a specific topic readily available. -- Pim Borman, SW Indiana PC Users Group, October 2002

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0596002084
• ISBN 13: 9780596002084
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 812