Linux Magnum - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3827242495 ISBN 13: 9783827242495

In this book you will find all the relevant knowledge for Linux use - whether you are a curious user or already a budding professional. Author Ute Hertzog accompanies you from installing and working with the desktop software to all aspects of system management to using your Linux system as a network server. So you can use Linux not only for classic desktop applications such as office, email and web, but also as a workhorse for your Windows network. The book is not distribution-specific, but the author points out peculiarities of the most important distributions. With the latest open SUSE version (10 OSS) on the included DVD, you can easily set up a full-fledged and powerful Linux system on your computer.

This book is equally intended for Linux beginners as well as experienced Linux users who want to deepen their knowledge and switch from other operating systems. It can be used both in the private and corporate sector, as it takes up many different topics. The basic part is primarily intended for Linux beginners and changers. For experienced Linux users, however, it can be used to read the options of one or the other command in more detail.

The second part, systems management, goes in part beyond the needs of a simple user. However, beginners and advanced users will find information on how the system can be adapted to their own needs in a wide range of areas, for example when booting behavior, integration of new devices, etc. Managing processes, configuring the kernel, system monitoring, and data protection are also special topics for a system administrator.

In the third part, Chapter 19, Internet access, is again a topic for beginners and changers, which not only shows how you get to the Internet, but also what possibilities it offers. The other chapters cover quite special topics apart from the networking basics in Chapter 18, including how to set up NFS, Samba, DNS and NIS servers and clients.

As already mentioned, the book describes commands for advanced or interested beginners, but on the other hand almost always offers a possibility to perform a task with graphic tools from KDE or SUSE with YaST. Nevertheless, due to the scope, only a small part of all existing graphical programs could be described in this book, for example, in Chapter 10, Multimedia, only two tools for playing audio files are presented, although there are much more for KDE and of course countless more for the other graphical surfaces, such as GNOME etc. In Chapter 19, Internet, only one email program (KMail) and only one web browser (Mozilla Firefox) are presented, although Linux knows much more.

The book also describes only the tools for the management and system tasks described. All other tools, such as office programs, games, graphics programs, would have exploded its scope. Most topics have their own books, for example OpenOffice or the Gimp graphics program. The same applies to special administration tasks, such as configuring a web server, an LDAP server or a mail server: on each of these topics there are entire books that cover the respective topic in detail.

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