Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora at Dominant Systems Book Store

Linux is known as a secure environment and a good platform to run a web server. These topics are among the many covered in this book. But did you know you can also burn CDs, sync a PalmPilot™, and edit slideshow presentations with powerful tools on Linux? Those topics are covered here, too. Red Hat currently provides two distributions, both documented in this book. The first is their commercial, subscription-based product, called Red Hat Enterprise Linux and also available through retail channels as Red Hat Professional Workstation. The second is the freely distributed Fedora distribution. The Publisher's Edition of Fedora is included in this book on two disks. New in this edition are installation instructions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, package updating for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, information on the GRUB bootloader, and the CUPS printer system.

Customer Reviews & Comments
My recommendation is, this is a good book for a Linux novice or someone starting with Fedora for the first time.Those with experience, will probably want to pass on this book. Its not likely you'll pick up anything new(I didn't). (For those unfamiliar with what Red Hat has done with the split out of Fedora; think of Fedora Core 1 as Red Hat Linux 9.1 or 10; if Red Hat had continued the product line.) This book focuses on the "NEW" Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core 1 Linux user. The book is a relatively easy read. Bill McCarty writes a clear and well organized book. From a novice's perspective, the author givesyou, what you need to get Fedora installed, running and usable. The author does a good job of pointingthe reader at additional information sources on each topic. The book is short, less than 300 pages.This is nice compared to some of the other 1,000 page plus Linux novice tomes; which try to be a "how to get started" book and a "general reference" all at they same time; except they don't do either well. Linux shouldbe friendly, not scary. First timers shouldn't have to read a Encyclopedia to get started in Linux. I agree with the author's choice of brevity for his book. One suggestion to the author, would be to include output examples with the CLI (Command Line Interface) examples.He does it with the GUIs, so why not with the CLIs??? I bought the book because "Red Hat Enterprise" (RHE) was in the title. I was disappointed in the fact there wasn'tmore detail about RHE. In retrospect, anyone doing RHE, is probably an experienced Linux person working for acompany, where RHE is deployed and may even have had formal training on RHE. So why would they need this book? My bona fides; I've been using been using various flavors of Unix for an embarrassing long time, Red Hat Linux for 8 yrs (from release RH 3.0.3 to 9) and I have been running Fedora Core for about 5 months now.

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