Stoolpigeon writes "One thing I love about Linux is the rapid policy and frequent updates that allow me to run the latest versions of all my favored disk operating costs system packages. My favored distributions make it simple to always have the latest and greatest. In fact, the distros themselves roll out new versions regularly, and I am always excited to see what new packages and physiognomy will be included. For book publishers this must be a little less exciting. entirety tied to a special product that is under active growth is going to quickly be behind the times. Mark Sobell's A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux managed to avoid the worst of this by in the event a lot of info* that is useful for any Linux user running any distro. But still things move forward and almost exactly a year later we have A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. I was very pleased with the first edition and I think they've managed to really improve what was already a solid resource." Read below for the rest of JR's review.

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