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Overview
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!
Synopsis
New from best-selling author Mark Sobell, this latest edition of his classic is the ultimate guide to installing, configuring and working with Red Hat Linux. It includes a full version of the latest Fedora release 'Core 2' the first Fedora release to contain the new 2.6 Linux Kernel.
A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux, Second Edition contains many updated features, including more detailed coverage of key Linux servers than any other book on the market. It goes beyond tactics to explain the 'whys' as well as the 'hows' of system administration and programming. This comprehensive and readable tutorial and reference ' combined with the included Fedora release on CD ' provides the instruction needed to build and run powerful Linux servers.