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Book Review: Moving from Windows to Linux and Linux in the Workplace UnixReview.com August 2004
Reviewed by Cameron Laird

Moving from Windows to Linux
Chuck Easttom
Charles River Media, 2003
ISBN: 1584502800

Linux in the Workplace
SSC, Inc.
No Starch Press, 2002
ISBN: 1-886411-86-7

These are hard reviews to write. I haven't found a way yet to be objective about the idea of moving from Windows to Linux.

With most reviews, I'm confident of the way I focus on the books' concepts, style, organization, depth, and polish. I've generally talked over my judgments with enough experts in the particular field to know that I'm passing on reliable information.

I haven't found a way to treat

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