Overview

Your one-stop guide to Linux—fully revised and expanded

Get in-depth coverage of all Linux features, tools, and utilities from this thoroughly updated and comprehensive resource, designed for all Linux distributions. Written by Linux expert Richard Petersen, this book explains how to get up-and-running on Linux, use the desktops and shells, manage applications, deploy servers, implement security measures, and handle system and network administration tasks.

With full coverage of the latest platform, Linux: The Complete Reference, Sixth Edition includes details on the very different and popular Debian (Ubuntu) and Red Hat/Fedora software installation and service management tools used by most distributions. This is a must-have guide for all Linux users.

Install, configure, and administer any Linux distribution
Work with files and folders from the BASH, TCSH, and Z shells
Use the GNOME and KDE desktops, X Windows, and display managers
Set up office, database, Internet, and multimedia applications
Secure data using SELinux, netfilter, SSH, and Kerberos
Encrypt network transmissions with GPG, LUKS, and IPsec
Deploy FTP, Web, mail, proxy, print, news, and database servers
Administer system resources using HAL, udev, and virtualization (KVM and Xen)
Configure and maintain IPv6, DHCPv6, NIS, networking, and remote access
Access remote files and devices using NFSv4, GFS, PVFS, NIS, and SAMBA

Covering everything from installation and other basics to advanced features such as troubleshooting and programming, this book takes readers of every skill level of this popular operating system. With an emphasis on communications and connectivity, it teaches users how to take advantage of Linux's tremendous networking potential.

About the Author, Richard Petersen

Richard Petersen, MLIS,

teaches UNIX and C/C++ courses at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of all previous editions of Linux:The Complete Reference and regularly writes articles for Linux World Magazine.

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Explains the process of installing and configuring the Linux operating system, the user environments and applications available for Linux, servers that run on Linux, internet applications, and network administration. The K desktop environment and Gnome receive their own chapters. The DVD-ROM contains Red Hat Linux 7.3. The fifth edition omits the chapters on programming. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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In providing a lucid overview of the Linux Operating System<-->developed in 1991 as a version of Unix, the agenda of Petersen (U. of California, Berkeley) is to promote Linux as a viable alternative for Intel-based PCs. Coverage spans the Linux's main components (the kernel, shell, file structure, and utilities), and new chapters on GUI desktops, programming, and document processing. The CD-ROM features Caldera's OpenLinux and software applications. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.