Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, A - Softcover

Sobell, Mark G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131470248 ISBN 13: 9780131470248

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2004

Synopsis

The best just became BETTER! Completely revised to meet all your Red Hat Linux needs!

Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are advanced operating systems. You need a book that's just as advanced. This book explains Linux clearly and effectively--with a focus on the features you care about, including system security, Internet server setup, and sharing files and printers with Windows systems. Best-selling Linux author Mark Sobell starts at the beginning and walks you through everything that matters, from installing Fedora Core using the included CDs to GNOME, KDE, Samba 3, sendmail, Apache, DNS, NIS, and iptables. Along the way, you learn the "hows" and the "whys." Whether you are a user, an administrator, or a programmer, this book gives you all you need and more. Mark Sobell knows every Linux nook and cranny, has taught hundreds of thousands of readers, and never forgets what it's like to be new to Linux.

Don't settle for yesterday's Linux book...get the ONLY book that meets today's challenges and tomorrow's!

Compared with the other Linux books out there, A Practical Guide to Red Hat® Linux®, Second Edition, delivers...

• The full Fedora Core operating system on 4 CDs (not the truncated "Publisher's Edition") AND complete coverage of Fedora Core and the 2.6 Linux kernel, PLUS coverage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Deeper coverage of GNOME and KDE, including customization
• More practical coverage of file sharing with Samba, NFS, and FTP
• Easier-to-follow coverage of Internet server configuration including Apache, sendmail, NFS, and DNS
• More up-to-date coverage of security, including SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux), OpenSSH, and firewall setup using iptables
• Better coverage of "meat-and-potatoes" system/network administration tasks
• A more practical introduction to writing bash shell scripts
• More complete coverage of configuring local and network printers using CUPS
• And much more...including a 500+ word glossary and a comprehensive index to help you find what you need fast!

Includes 4 CDs!
Get the full version of Red Hat's Fedora Core 2 release!

About this title

Synopsis

Mark Sobell's books are classics because he is a great writer and a technicalmaster. Well over 300,000 Sobell Unix and Linux books have been sold.This book is a comprehensive--and remarkably well-written--tutorial oninstalling, configuring, and using Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core 2 and Red HatEnterprise Linux editions.It is broken into seven parts: Part One is an introduction to Linux and to thebook itself; Part Two covers Linux installation, including installing Linux on adual-boot Windows XP/Linux machine; Part Three focuses on the core toolsreaders need to master to be effective using Linux; Part Four covers the KDEand GNOME graphical desktops; Part Five covers key system administrationconcepts.Part Six is brand new in this edition. It covers setting up and using the mostpopular Linux servers, including Samba, Apache, sendmail, NFS, NIS, DNS,DHCP, and FTP; Part Seven is an introduction to programming on Linux. Itcontains Sobell's masterful tutorial on Linux shell programming.Reference the comparison guide to see how Sobell stacks up in the market.

About the Author

Mark G. Sobell is president of Sobell Associates Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in UNIX/Linux training, support, and custom software development. He is the author of many best-selling UNIX and Linux books and has more than twenty-five years of experience working with UNIX and Linux.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0131470248
• ISBN 13: 9780131470248
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1136