July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 2
Preface
This is a book about Linux, a freely available clone of the Unix operating system
whose uses range from embedded systems and personal data assistants (PDAs) to
corporate servers, web servers, and massive clusters that perform some of the
world’s most difficult computations.
Whether you are using Linux for personal software projects, for a small office or
home office (the so-called SOHO environment), to provide services to a small
group of colleagues, or to administer a site responsible for millions of email and
web connections each day, you need quick access to information on a wide range
of tools. This book covers all aspects of administering and making effective use of
Linux systems. Among its topics are booting, package management, and revision
control. But foremost in Linux in a Nutshell are the immeasurable utilities and
commands that make Linux one of the most powerful and flexible systems
available.
In addition to the tools and features written specifically for it, Linux has inherited
many from the Free Software Foundation’s GNU project, the Berkeley Software
Distribution (BSD), the X Window System, and contributions from major corpo-
rations as well as the companies that created the major Linux distributions. More
recent projects extend Linux in exciting ways, ...
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