Com Sci 501
System Administration in Linux

Department of Computer Science
The University of Chicago

Books

The titles of these books reflect their contents fairly accurately. I added comments only to give information not in the title.

• Required Text: Running Linux by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman (Cowboy), O'Reilly & Associates, 2nd edition 1996, ISBN 1-56592-151-8, $29.95.



• Recommended (for anyone without UNIX experience): Learning the UNIX Operating System by Grace Todino, John Strang, and Jerry Peek (Owl), O'Reilly & Associates, 3rd edition 1993/1994, ISBN 1-56592-060-0, $9.95. This is a very short ``Single Session Overview'' of the use of UNIX.



• The Debian Linux User's Guide by Dale Sheetz, Linux Press, 1997, ISBN 0-9659575-0-0, $37.95 (includes 3 CD-ROMs). Available online free from the publisher.



• Essential System Administration by Æleen Frisch (Armadillo), O'Reilly & Associates, 2nd edition 1995, ISBN 1-56592-127-5, $34.95. This book treats 8 variations of UNIX, including Linux.



• The Linux Bible: the GNU Testament edited by John Purcell and Amand Robinson, Yggdrasil Computing, 4th edition 1996, ISBN 1-883601-20-7 (includes CD-ROM). This book compiles 1,864 pages of free documents, plus an index. You can copy all of these documents from the Web for free. But, you're most likely to need them when your network connection is broken.



• The Linux User's Guide by Larry Greenfield. Included in The Linux Bible, and available free from the Linux Documentation Project.



• Linux System Administrator's Guide 0.5 by Lars Wirzenius. Included in The Linux Bible, and available free from the Linux Documentation Project.



• Linux Network Administrator's Guide by Olaf Kirch (Cowboy), O'Reilly & Associate, 1995, ISBN 1-56592-087-2, $24.95. Included in The Linux Bible, and available free from the Linux Documentaton Project.



• A Practical Guide to Linux by Mark G. Sobell, Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-89549-8. This is a text for users of Linux.
  
  
• Linux in a Nutshell: a Desktop Quick Reference by Jessica Perry Hekman (Horse), O'Reilly & Associates, 1997, ISBN 1-56592-167-4, $19.95.



• UNIX System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, and Trent R. Hein, Prentice Hall, 2nd editio 1995, ISBN 0-13-151051-7 (includes CD-ROM). This is the book most oriented toward the actual profession of system administration, including a chapter on Policy and Politics.