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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Can someone say, if this is a good bundle to buy? Especially if you want to dig into DevOps and Kubernetes?
I also would be interested in knowing
I wouldn’t see why not? Ur getting 22 books at the price of what one or two of them would have cost normally. Imo it’s a bargain and as someone who’s starting to work in cloud / open source within the next few months I’m defo happy to see this deal available! Have also had really good experiences with the books published by no starch press 🙌
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)
Sick, purchased!
A thread on the site which shall not be named convinced me that a majority of the books are recently published and with above average to highly scored on reviews, so I bought it.
Why the Linux Firewalls book hails from 2007 is a strange outlier.
Because that’s the most recent version… The firewall it covers I don’t think has changed much in that time though so it’s probably fine
Of course not. That stuff is obsolete and out of date as soon as its printed.
Fuck humble.
Normally I try to learn from either YouTube Videos or Blog post or something like that. Apart from “learning by doing”. But most of the time those posts and videos are only tipping the ice berg and show how you, for example, install Kubernetes, but they don’t go any deeper. That’s why I’m asking, if those books are good.
Yes you’re right. Every book about IT is old as soon as it’s printed. But the core concept is often times the same.
I always thought the Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook was the book of fundamentals, will probably get the bundle just for the Kubernetes stuff though. Those BSD books are pretty useful too, in that world.
No matter how good or bad the books are, their cover art is so cool
Which is the opposite of Manning, got a book from them recently that the cover made me go “what the fuck?!”
Still, those two are my favorite tech publishers, hands down
That is an incredible collection, and includes current versions (a lot of times these have older revisions)
How Linux Works, Absolute FreeBSD, and Absolute OpenBSD are worth way more than the cost by themselves
