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Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed
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by Bill Ball and David Pitts
Sales Rank: 523238
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Paperback: 1112 pages
Publisher: Sams October 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672319853
ISBN-13: 978-0672319853
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.9 x 2.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
Product Review
There are a number of versions of Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed, including a distribution agnostic one without a CD. Most of the content is duplicated across all of them. NFS usage, for example, or setting up XFree 86, is the same, regardless of distribution.
In practice, the biggest difference between the book for Red Hat version 6 and the one for Red Hat 7 is the Red Hat distribution CDs that are included with the latter. It's an excellent way to get Red Hat 7, if you don't have the previous version of the book. Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed is more useful than the manuals that are provided by Red Hat with the retail distribution. What you get here is 1,000 pages of practical information on configuring and using the software. For example, all of the chat clients that are supplied--from the original chat utility itself to ICQ and AIM--are covered in detail. More importantly, the Red Hat manuals basically cover desktop use, while RedHat Linux 7 Unleashed covers networking aspects such as Samba, Apache, NIS, NFS, network management, remote printing, and network security. Also, it goes into areas that the manual doesn't touch, including C/C++ programming, scripting, and building new kernels--to hit just the highlights.
If there's a downside to this book, then, strangely, it has to be the emphasis on the Red Hat distribution. For example, because Red Hat 7 doesn't include the excellent ReiserFS journaling file system, this isn't covered--if you want to use it, you'll have to figure out how to download, install, and set it up yourself.
Nevertheless, RedHat Linux 7 Unleashed certainly is the best manual that's available currently for Red Hat Linux 7, and a fount of hands-on information. --Steve Patient, Amazon.co.uk
Product Description
Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed shows you how to install, configure, and manage version 7, the latest version of Red Hat operating system. Version 7 boasts the latest stable Linux kernel, a new and improved installation program, updated libraries and a host of other improvements, including the new Xfree86 4.x. Learn how the operating system works from the inside out.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is as good as the previous versions of Linux Unleashed. Maybe a little better since it is only concentrating on the RH versions. Gives quick introductory to a lot of configurations. I think this is helpfull because at least you can make it work without digging through sometimes Illegible README and INSTALL documentation. Sometimes I use the information from the book to try and understand what the author of the README pages is talking about. The basic configurations for Apache, Samba and Networking are there (NIS is there also but didn't try it). Once you get this setup going you can tweak it and see whether it did what you wanted or it crashed. You get a baseline working system though. One little tid-bit of warning. I tried to use the disks provided with the book to upgrade a system and it stalled 3-times in a row. I put in a RH installation disk from RH and the upgrade went fine. So there may be a few kinks on the disks which are provided with this book. I have used the book supplied disks to install individual rpm packages and they seem to work fine.
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