This book is for anyone who wants to master Linux from the command line.
When writing it, I had in mind system administrators, software
developers, and enthusiastic users who want to get things going from the
Linux command line. For beginning users, this may be a daunting task, as
Linux commands often have many options documented only in pages that are
not that easy to understand. This book is distribution agnostic. That
is, while writing it, I've checked all items against Ubuntu, Red Hat,
and SUSE. Since most distributions are quite similar to one of these
three, this book should help you with other distributions as well. There
is only one item in the book that is not distribution agnostic: the
Appendix, which explains how to install OpenSUSE. I've chosen to cover
installation of just one distribution, because if you don't have any
Linux installed yet, you probably don't care what you install. If you do
care what distribution to work with, you probably have it installed
already.