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Overall I grade this book highly, if it had a CD with the scripts and the software mentioned in the book I would have given it a 9. |
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I was pleasantly shocked to find the book is actually very well written, interesting and engaging to read. There is a bit of humour in the writing and it's written in a plain, easy to read but not patronisingly simple manner. |
bri wrote: |
We intentionally did not have a CD with the code or the software. Since all the software is being updated frequently, it would have been out of date by the time you got it. Secondly, all the source code we wrote for the book is available on our website at http://www.buildinglinuxvpns.net, and can be viewed online individually or you can snag the whole .tgz tarball, and it's all released under the GPL. Having it there kept the cost down (adding a CD to the book would raise the price a few bucks, believe it or not) and allows us to keep it updated, for example fixing bugs or adding more comments to the code. |
ShaolinTiger wrote: |
Well it wasn't so much the software as I know things change so fast that's a fairly futile excercise. It was more from the standpoint of the extensive scripts in the book (setup scripts, init.d scripts etc), which I can't stand typing in from books as it's very easy to make mistakes. I wasn't aware the book had a site, perhaps I missed it in the intro somewhere. I think it should be made clearer there is a website, what is contained on it and that you can download the tools and scripts mentioned in the book there. |
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