Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 912 pages
- Published by: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; Bk & DVD edition December 3, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0072226463
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072226461
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 7.8 x 2 inches
- Weighs: 3.4 pounds
Product Description
This is the single most comprehensive Red Hat Linux resource available. Moreover, Osborne is the only publisher to feature this information -- including all material from Red Hat's 5 CDs -- exclusively on one DVD. You'll learn how to install, configure, and manage Red Hat 8, plus get full coverage of the new KDE and Gnome environment, and much more.
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The Ultimate In-Depth Linux Resource!
Entire Red Hat Linux 8 distribution (6 CD-ROMs) on DVD!
Maximize the powerful capabilities of Red Hat Linux using this comprehensive and up-to-date reference. You'll find detailed coverage of everything from installation and configuration to system administration and server management. Chapters include full coverage of system, network, security, and server setup tasks as well as discussions of GUI interfaces (Bluecurve, Gnome, and KDE), security concerns, TCP/IP network configuration, Internet tools, and
software management. And, the enclosed DVD contains more than 1,500 applications and corresponding source code for the entire Red Hat Linux 8 distribution--normally available on 6 CD-ROMs. For anyone wanting to learn to install, administer, or program using the latest Linux platform, this is your one-stop guide.
- Install, use, and manage Red Hat 8
- Master Bluecurve, KDE 3.x, Gnome 2.x, office and multimedia applications (OpenOffice, KOffice, and Gnome Office)
- Learn to use the shell, file systems, and Internet clients including mail, ftp, news, and Web tools
- Set up and manage servers--wu-ftpd, vsftpd, and ProFTP (FTP), Apache (Web), Sendmail and Postfix (mail), Squid (proxy), LPRng and CUPS (print), and HTDig (search), SAMBA and NFS (file), NIS and BIND (DNS), and DHCP
- Use the complete suite of Red Hat system and network administration tools
- Manage users, services, CD and DVD writers, journaling file systems, RAID devices, and printers (remote and local)
- Reconfigure the kernel and its modules
- Ensure system and network security using packet filtering (firewalls), authentication, digital signatures, intrusion detection, and encryption methods
- Deploy powerful desktop, office, database, graphic, editing, and Internet applications
Reader ReviewsMcGraw-Hill Osborne Media handed this book the princely crown that it deserved by shipping it with attached DVD-ROM (when comparable books that are more expensive cannot even boast of a CD-ROM). But that is just one of its numerous embellishments. This "Red Hat Linux 8: The Complete Reference" gave a complete and comprehensive coverage of its subject. From installation and configuration, down to the complete analysis of KDE and Gnome environment, very few books matched the depth of the narration which this text provided. While 'Red Hat' beginners may be contented with savouring the more traditional chapters like: 'Interface Basics', 'System Configuration', and 'Basic System Administration'; expert users of the Operating System would be pleased to obtain updated information from the chapters that dealt with 'Security Configuration: Encryption and Authentication', 'Web, File Transfer Protocol, and Java Clients', as well as 'Mail Server: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Post Office Protocol, and Internet Message Access Protocol'. This book has the interests of both beginners and experts at heart. It is versatile; and covered every important issue that anyone would need concerning 'Red Hat Linux 8' software, (both the Professional and the Personal editions). It is impeccable! Readers are bound to appreciate how it simplified 'Software Management', 'Network Tools, and 'File System Administration'. It is a fine bargain, as well as a reliable reference text for all levels of 'Red Hat Linux 8' users.
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