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[JKelly]

Hello all,

I just got word that I am one of the ones who won the lottery for a few seats in the unix/linux system administrator class for fall and winter semester. It is a 2 part class. The professor has suggested to get the newest edition but the one below it can be used too. My question is, what is the difference between the 4th and 5th editions of this book???

ps. told my husband at the dinner table and I am deaf but I felt him squeal in happiness that I got into the class. I had no idea he could fan girl that hard over a book.

 

[f33dm3bits]

what is the difference between the 4th and 5th editions of this book???

In general when it comes to books with new editions they update some stuff like spelling or grammar errors and technical terms that might have changed and other stuff like that.

 

[osprey]

Hello all,

I just got word that I am one of the ones who won the lottery for a few seats in the unix/linux system administrator class for fall and winter semester. It is a 2 part class. The professor has suggested to get the newest edition but the one below it can be used too. My question is, what is the difference between the 4th and 5th editions of this book???

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ps. told my husband at the dinner table and I am deaf but I felt him squeal in happiness that I got into the class. I had no idea he could fan girl that hard over a book.

One difference between the 4th and 5th edition is the distributions that the book's examples are based upon. The fourth edition came out in 2011 and used these distros in its examples:

Ubuntu® 9.10 “Karmic Koala”
openSUSE 11.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5.5
Solaris 11 and OpenSolaris 2009.06
HP-UX 11i v3
AIX 6.1

and the fifth edition came out in 2017 and used these distros in its examples:

Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 “Stretch”
Ubuntu® 17.04 “Zesty Zapus”
RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 and CentOS 7.1
FreeBSD 11.0

There's been quite a few later versions of all of these distros, but many fundamentals have remained the same. In the case of later versions, one is often advised to read the release notes for the distro, and then the changelogs of the applications for some more details to keep track of changes. There are other sources of changes, but I guess the most relevant for the most fine-grained changes are going to be in the man pages.

 

[anatollorexford]

Hello all,

I just got word that I am one of the ones who won the lottery for a few seats in the unix/linux system administrator class for fall and winter semester. It is a 2 part class. The professor has suggested to get the newest edition but the one below it can be used too. My question is, what is the difference between the 4th and 5th editions of this book???

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ps. told my husband at the dinner table and I am deaf but I felt him squeal in happiness that I got into the class. I had no idea he could fan girl that hard over a book. This is a really cool course, well done for achieving this. New editions include more current versions of Linux distributions, the Unix kernel, and new features that have appeared since the previous edition. That's the whole difference. I wanted to get on a similar course myself, but it didn't work out because of my poor academic performance. I decided to find someone to write my discussion, and in the end I hire a person to do it. But it was too late. I think next time I'll get on the course too. If you have the opportunity, it's better to choose the new (5th) edition.

I don't understand how you managed to do this?