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Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora, Fourth Edition

By Bill McCarty
Fourth Edition April 2004
Pages: 348
ISBN 10: 0-596-00589-X | ISBN 13: 9780596005894
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New in this edition are installation instructions and help with package updating for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. Information on the GRUB bootloader, and the CUPS printer system, as well as the Publisher's Edition of Fedora are also included.
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The GNU/Linux® success story is well known. Firmly established as a high-performance operating system, its worldwide installations are increasing at phenomenal rates. Much of this success has been on the server side, but more and more PC users are turning to Linux on the desktop, as well. For those grounded in Microsoft Windows® or Apple Macintosh® graphical interfaces, the first look at a powerful Unix-style operating system can be daunting. This book provides a clear, no-nonsense introduction to the popular Red Hat® distribution of Linux. It takes you through installation and shows you the key parts of the system, always with an eye toward what can go wrong and what you need to know to get over the humps. 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. Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora tells you how to:

Prepare your system for installing Linux
Install and configure Linux and the two popular desktop environments, GNOME and KDE.
Run the most popular productivity tools on Linux: mailers, web browsers, OpenOffice, and Evolution.
Obtain and set up software through the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)
Set up a Linux system for networking, either on your local area network (LAN), or via a dialup connection to the Internet.
Use the system-administration tools included with Red Hat, GNOME, and KDE, including such valuable utilities as Samba file-sharing and the Apache web server.
Understand and write shell scripts so you can peek under the hood and extend the power of Linux.

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where is the beef?, December 26 2004

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Submitted by jeff [Respond | View]

i dont understand who is the intended audience for this book.
it touches on all the necessary topics but if you are not doing an absolutely plain vanilla installation on a very new computer, you will not find the info you are looking for. (example network admin tool, what is the real name of this tool so i can run it from the command line?).
and if you are doing an absolutely plain vanilla installation on a very new computer you wont need to use this book, so why read it?

i personally am very disappointed this book is in the fine tradition of showing pretty pictures and providing no actual depth of information.

too bad.

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Media reviews "For people who are starting to look at Linux as a potential desktop system 'Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora' will get you onto the right track right from the beginning...Bill McCarthy does an excellent job of explaining what is going on...The authors also include a complete copy of Fedora on CD so you can actually install the operating system and configure it while you learn. "Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora" is highly recommended for anyone looking to make Linux their desktop operating system."
--Harold McFarland, Readers Preference Reviews, June 2004
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Reviews From Previous Edition

"This is the third edition of O'Reilly's classic introduction ...A well-written manual for new users. It covers the essentials, showing how to install, configure, and use Linux. Recommended to those people who want to try out Linux and who would like to run RH8 alongside MS Windows. A compact, easy-to-handle guide that will sit neatly on a (real-world) desktop as a ready reference to Red Hat Linux."
--Major Keary, "PC Update," August 2003

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