Ouch, glad I didn't ask you all to review my books. That being said,
let me say a few things.
Linux is continually moving at a very fast pace. For firewalls, take a
look
at what's happened over the past few years: we went from just routing to
ipfwadm to ipchains and now iptables. It will be a few months at least
before
books even start to mention iptables, let alone tell you how to use it.
Books will take anywhere up to a year to be written and published, meaning
that at the very least, kernel information is way way out of date. I doubt
there's a book on the market (excepting the hastily-published books about
RH 7 that
have no practical information at all) that tells you about using USB.
In my previous books, I pretty much wound up pointing readers to the man
pages
and to the LDP, as that information is much more up to date. And the
biggest
complaint I saw about my books was that I never gave enough information,
but if
I did give enough information, it was out of date.
This isn't to excuse the authors or publishers, but keep in mind that
by the time you see a book on the shelf, the contents may be very old.
As you should always do when buying books, flip through a few pages. Think
up a question and see how easily you can find what you're looking for. See
if
it's more of a tutorial or a reference. References are hard to learn from,
and
tutorials make finding specific information a bit difficult. Depending on
the
store, ask someone that works there.
-Mark
"Matthew J. Brodeur" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > People,
> >
> > What is the best book on firewalls?
>
> I'll throw in another negative recommendation. "Firewalls: A Complete
> Guide", by Marcus Goncalves. I had the misfortune of acquiring this book
> for a college course on firewalls. The entire is simply restatements of
> Usenet postings and marketing web pages, most of which are grossly out of
> date. There is a surprising lack of useful content for a 670pg, $55 book.
> I was especially shocked by the 12 page Perl script _printed_ in the book,
> when it's already included on the CD and the web site.
>
> --
> -Matt
>
> Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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