[TriLUG] Avoid Red Hat Press books

[Beth Ellison]

Yo List,

There are some new Linux books on the market from "Red Hat Press" and they 
are not good, IMNSHO. Red Hat does have a contract with this Hungry Minds 
Publishing company, but the books were not written by Red Hat employees. 
Some of us in the documentation department were hired to do technical edits. 
We did. They paid no attention to our comments. There is information in both 
books that is just perfectly incorrect.

The book titles are Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration, Red 
Hat Linux Survival Guide, Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization, and Red 
Hat Linux X Internet Server.

Here is their press release:

http://lwn.net/daily/red-hat-press.php3

I had a long talk with one of our IS guys Friday and he was disgusted at how 
much incorrect and/or misleading information is in the Security book. I did 
the technical edit for the Survival Guide and told them about the new config 
tools, the new printer tool, etc. and they paid no attention to what I said. 
They explain linuxconf. :|  They talk about LILO but not GRUB. :| I don't 
understand why they paid technical editors to proof the books, but decided 
to pay no attention to our comments.

I'm just trying to explain the deal on these books in case any of you find 
them tempting. I'm embarrassed that my name appears in one of them.

Beth



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