cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15720003
No Starch HumbleBundle includes “How Linux Works”, THE SysAdmin fundamentals book, 3rd edition.
Also includes the “DevOps for the Desparate”, “Linux Firewalls: Attack Detection and Response with iptables, psad, & fwsnort”, “The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition”, “Absolute OpenBSD”, “The Book of PF” ( I think that’s for the BSD’s ), “Designing Secure Software”, “Practical ulnerability Management”, “Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition”, “The Practice of Network Security Monitoring”, etc…
IF you can’t afford the Safari subscription, which I presume would include all of these,
AND you want thorough competence in the fundamentals
THEN you really probably want to know some of these ones.
I’d require the current edition of “How Linux Works” as the bedrock understanding of anyone who wanted to be working SysAdmin or DevOps, anywhere, any time.
This entire bundle is the same price as “How Linux Works” alone is, in my local ebook platform.
Our ignorance costs us, right?
We can reduce the price it makes us, and our world, pay, through more competent knowing of our fundamentals:
don’t allow mistakes, or faulty-process, or malicious-actors, any leverage, you know?
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen!
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It will depend on the books maybe someone already has read them can chime in. But I saw a post like this for golang, and everyone in the comments were saying the books were ai generated crap.
I read the How Linux Works one, it seemed pretty basic, maybe a bit too basic. Plus if you don’t practice the theory in them you’ll forget whatever you read. At least I did lol. All in all, pretty meh
I tried the command line one as well, but couldn’t get through it. Let’s be honest, do you really want to read 300 pages of commands? lol
If you want to learn anything about those topic in these books, practice. You can read all you want but it’s a waste of time if you don’t use it
I’m talking to my past self a bit lmao
Yeah that is always the scary part these days… Do u know if that was specific to No Starch press?
No Starch Press usually does good stuff.
No Starch, Manning, and O’Reilly are my go to publishers for tech books.
I try to avoid Packt like the plague.
Nah I think it was a company called “Packt” that everyone in the thread was complaining about so hopefully this one is different. But for sure would love to hear from someone who has read them.
Packt books are typically quite bad. Maybe not all, but it’s probably safe to assume they aren’t great.
No Starch in general is excellent quality, they’re one of my main go-tos. I own several of the books in there and they’re high quality, easily worth more than the bundle for each book.
No Starch Press does not publish AI generated crap, with very few exceptions they’ve been very high quality (the one exception I can think of is Linux Basics for Hackers, which should have just been called Linux Basics, and had a better editor because it was full of technical errors, but everything else I’ve gotten from them has been stellar quality)