November 2007
Beginner
642 pages
15h 43m
English
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Which Linux Distributions Are Used in the Book
There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of Linux distributions: live distributions on all kinds of bootable media, from business-card CDs to USB keys to CDs to DVDs; large general-purpose distributions; tiny specialized distributions for firewalls, routers, and old PCs; multimedia distributions; scientific distributions; cluster distributions; distributions that run Windows applications; and super-secure distributions. There is no way to even begin to cover all of these; fortunately for frazzled authors, the Linux world can be roughly divided into two camps: Red Hat Linux and Debian Linux. Both are fundamental, influential distributions that have spawned the majority of derivatives and clones.
In this book, the Red Hat world is represented by Fedora Linux, the free community-driven distribution sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora is free of cost, the core distribution contains only Free Software, and it has a more rapid release cycle than Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). RHEL is on an 18-month release cycle, is designed to be stable and predictable, and has no packaged free-of-cost version, though plenty of free clones abound. The clones are built from the RHEL SRPMs, with the Red Hat trademarks removed. Some RHEL-based distributions include CentOS, White Box Linux, Lineox, White Box Enterprise Linux, Tao Linux, and Pie Box Linux.
Additionally, there are a number of Red Hat derivatives to choose from, like Man-driva and PCLinuxOS. The ...
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