Red Hat Linux 8: The Complete Reference - Softcover

Petersen, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072226463 ISBN 13: 9780072226461

Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2002

Synopsis

This guide takes the reader through how to install, configure and manage Red Hat 8. Each section focuses on the different ways Red Hat presents its distribution: as a desktop workstation, network workstation, server, and development platform.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Petersen (Berkeley, CA) has an MLIS in library and information studies and teaches UNIX and C/C++ courses at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Linux: The Complete Reference (all four editions), Linux Programming: A Beginner's Guide, and many other titles.

From the Back Cover

The Ultimate In-Depth Linux Resource!

Entire Red Hat Linux 8 distribution (6 CD-ROMs) on DVD!

Maximize the powerful capabilities of Red Hat Linux using this comprehensive and up-to-date reference. You'll find detailed coverage of everything from installation and configuration to system administration and server management. Chapters include full coverage of system, network, security, and server setup tasks as well as discussions of GUI interfaces (Bluecurve, Gnome, and KDE), security concerns, TCP/IP network configuration, Internet tools, and software management. And, the enclosed DVD contains more than 1,500 applications and corresponding source code for the entire Red Hat Linux 8 distribution normally available on 6 CD-ROMs. For anyone wanting to learn to install, administer, or program using the latest Linux platform, this is your one-stop guide.

-Install, use, and manage Red Hat 8
-Master Bluecurve, KDE 3.x, Gnome 2.x, office and multimedia applications (OpenOffice, KOffice, and Gnome Office)
-Learn to use the shell, file systems, and Internet clients including mail, ftp, news, and Web tools
-Set up and manage servers wu-ftpd, vsftpd, and ProFTP (FTP), Apache (Web), Sendmail and Postfix (mail), Squid (proxy), LPRng and CUPS (print), and HTDig (search), SAMBA and NFS (file), NIS and BIND (DNS), and DHCP
-Use the complete suite of Red Hat system and network administration tools
-Manage users, services, CD and DVD writers, journaling file systems, RAID devices, and printers (remote and local)
-Reconfigure the kernel and its modules
-Ensure system and network security using packet filtering (firewalls), authentication, digital signatures, intrusion detection, and encryption methods
-Deploy powerful desktop, office, database, graphic, editing, and Internet applications

Edition details

• Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072226463
• ISBN 13: 9780072226461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1008