Paperback: 926 pages
Publisher: Osborne Publishing; Bk&CD Rom edition April 21, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0072125373
ISBN-13: 978-0072125375
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.5 x 2.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
Product Description
Get complete details on Red Hat Linux installation, administration, management, and troubleshooting. You'll learn to master the major GUIs--Gnome, KDE, and the FVWM windows manager, plus you'll get step-by-step coverage of dual boot installation.
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The ultimate resource on Red Hat Linux 6.2!
Master Red Hat 6.2--the latest and most popular free, open-source distribution of Linux--with the help of this authoritative reference. Linux master Richard Petersen explains the Gnome and KDE GUIs, window managers, the Linux shell, Linuxconf, Kernel management, Network adminstration, libraries, Red Hat tools, and the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM). You'll also get full coverage of Internet clients, Server support (Apache, wu-ftp, ProFTP, HTDig, Sendmail, POP, and DNS), System and Network administration, including network file systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, and Apple), firewalls, proxies, and encryption.Coverage also includes databases, graphics, and multimedia applications, such as WordPerfect, StarOffice, K Office, and the Gnome Workshop Project. Plus, the bonus CD-ROM includes Red Hat Linux 6.2, Publisher's Edition.
Learn to:
Install, configure, and troubleshoot Red Hat Linux 6.2.
Administer and configure Gnome, KDE, window mangers, and shell interfaces.
Enable Internet mailers, newsreaders, Web browsers, and FTP clients.
Deploy Internet servers, including FTP, Apache, DNS, mail, news, proxy, and search servers.
Install, remove, and update software and build custom packages using RPM.
Perform administrative tasks for users, devices, file systems, the X Window System, and the kernel.
Make use of Linuxconf, Red Hat, KDE, and Gnome system administration tools.
Configure networks using Linuxconf, Red Hat tools, Samba, NFS, NIS, and Netatalk.
Implement network firewalls, masquerading, proxies, and encryption using Ipchains, Squid, and SSH.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The fact that the book doesn't live up to its claim to be a 'Complete' reference is not surprising given the depth of Linux/Unix. I did however, expect more than what I got. For instance, there is very little mention of Postgres. When talking about partitioning it mentions nothing that isn't covered in the little install book that comes with Linux, and when trying to look up how to do a search and replace with Reg expressions, it didn't mention how to reuse matched elements. In short, everytime I try to look something up in this book I find little 'reference' material and end up looking in a different book. Perhaps a better name for this book would have been, "Red Hat Linux, a cursory sampling."
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