Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide (2nd ed)

Publishing Rationale - Linux Sustaining Growth - According to IDC, a research firm, Linux was the fastest growing operating system last year, with a 93 percent growth rate over the year before.

Linux was the second most shipped operating system in 1999 after Windows NT, capturing 24 percent of new licenses shipped. - Building on the success of the previous edition - Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide raving reviews and sold over 14,000 copies in the first six months of publication. - Need for Beginner's Guide - System administrators will not have the same kind of technical support with open-source Linux as they would with other commercial big-vendor OS's.

Therefore, there is a huge need for a technically accurate guide to Linux Administration.