I was really disappointed with this book. Every step of the way I had to refer to some other book or to the internet for resources. I found it to be very unclear as well as not very thorough...

I thought this book walked through some of the more obscure configuration issues of RH 6.1 pretty well. I liked the fact they actually had screenshots of the installation and I really liked the chapter on compiling the kernel.

A very poorly written book. When I followed one of the author's hints about installation, it resulted in an unstable system. The system is to be dual boot and the author simply said modify the lido.conf file - no examples given. The information I collected about my system was never used in the install. Red Hat does a great job. The author did not.

Unless you are just starting with Red Hat don't get this. Only the basics.

It is great, it guides you step by step to have a desktop machine up and running fast.
Not too good for learning Linux Server administration, but to learn the basics needed to replace Windows on your desktop.
It includes good references to Linux standard documentation and images so you know what are you doing.
The best reference for Linux on Desktop.