Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution

Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution Review

"Neither a "Starting Linux" book nor a dry reference manual, this book has a lot to offer to those coming to Fedora from other operating systems or distros."

-- Behdad Esfahbod, Fedora developer

This book will get you up to speed quickly on Fedora Linux, a securely-designed Linux distribution that includes a massive selection of free software packages. Fedora is hardened out-of-the-box, it's easy to install, and extensively customizable - and this book shows you how to make Fedora work for you.

Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat's Community Distribution will take you deep into essential Fedora tasks and activities by presenting them in easy-to-learn modules. From installation and configuration through advanced topics such as administration, security, and virtualization, this book captures the important details of how Fedora Core works--without the fluff that bogs down other books and help/how-to web sites. Instead, you can learn from a concise task-based approach to using Fedora as both a desktop and server operating system.

In this book, you'll learn how to:

• Install Fedora and perform basic administrative tasks
• Configure the KDE and GNOME desktops
• Get power management working on your notebook computer and hop on a wired or wireless network
• Find, install, and update any of the thousands of packages available for Fedora
• Perform backups, increase reliability with RAID, and manage your disks with logical volumes
• Set up a server with file sharing, DNS, DHCP, email, a Web server, and more
• Work with Fedora's security features including SELinux, PAM, and Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Whether you are running the stable version of Fedora Core or bleeding-edge Rawhide releases, this book has something for every level of user. The modular, lab-based approach not only shows you how things work-but also explains why--and provides you with the answers you need to get up and running with Fedora Linux.

Chris Tyler is a computer consultant and a professor of computer studies at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada where he teaches courses on Linux and X Window System Administration. He has worked on systems ranging from embedded data converters to Multics mainframes.

Red Hat Linux: The Complete Reference (Book/CD-ROM package)

Red Hat Linux: The Complete Reference (Book/CD-ROM package) Review

-- Red Hat Linux: The Complete Reference will cover the newest release of Red Hat, Red Hat 6.2. Both the book and the release of 6.2 will be in the spring.
-- A bonus CD-ROM containing Red Hat Linux 6.2 will be included.
-- This book will include in-depth information on:
-- Linuxconf -- An all-purpose configuration which will replace the traditional Red Hat tools
-- Administration with Red Hat tools
-- KDE and Gnome, the major GUI's that come with Red Hat.

Fedora Core 7 & Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Complete Reference

Fedora Core 7 & Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Complete Reference Review

The Definitive Linux Resource--Fully Updated and Expanded

Get full details on the powerful features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora 7 from this fully revised, one-stop guide. Linux expert Richard Petersen covers all the bases, from configuring your desktop, customizing your system, and accessing software repositories to handling files and directories, managing devices and servers, and sharing system resources.

Inside, you'll get in-depth coverage of Fedora 7's device and network autoconfiguration, IPv6 and .NET support, SE Linux, software repository installs, custom distribution spins, and system administration tools. You'll learn how to deploy sound security measures, configure automatic device detection, set up logical volumes for file management, and create your own Fedora distribution using your favorite software. 

• Install, use, secure, and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the new Fedora 7
• Configure services using Fedora administration tools for network access, software updates, and file management (LVM and GFS2)
• Manage users, services, file systems, hotplug devices, and printers
• Deploy powerful desktop, office, database, graphics, multimedia, e-mail, Web, and FTP applications
• Optimize security with IPsec, SE Linux, Kerberos, and Netfilter 
• Maintain FTP, Web, mail, DNS, proxy, print, news, and database servers
• Administer system resources using GRUB, Yum, HAL, MONO, and udev
• Select, download, and install a Fedora distribution spin
• Auto-configure IPv6, DHCPv6, and DHCP networks
• Access remote files and printers with NFS, GFS2, and SAMBA

Red Hat Linux 7.2: The Complete Reference, Second Edition

Red Hat Linux 7.2: The Complete Reference, Second Edition Review

This second edition includes updated material with coverage on the: Linux kernel 2.4, Gnome 1.4 and the K Desktop, KDE 2.0. It also covers Red Hat supported servers such as Tux and thttpd Web servers and the CUPS print server. As part of the book's coverage of the Linux kernel 2.4, the author walks through network security features of IP-tables. The book focuses on the different ways Red Hat presents its distribution - a desktop workstation, network workstation, server, and development platform. The CD contains a trial version of Red Hat 7.1.

Red Hat® Linux® 8: The Complete Reference DVD Edition

Red Hat® Linux® 8: The Complete Reference DVD Edition Review

This guide takes the reader through how to install, configure and manage Red Hat 8. Each section focuses on the different ways Red Hat presents its distribution: as a desktop workstation, network workstation, server, and development platform.