Book description
Switch your business to Linux: proven techniques for working IT Professionals
This is the complete technical resource for migrating your business desktops to Linux, administering them efficiently, and using them to drive cost savings throughout your organization. Respected Linux Journal columnist Marcel Gagné walks you step-by-step through planning and managing the transition, getting users up and running, and keeping them happy. Gagné covers hardware, productivity applications, messaging, coexistence with Windows environments, support, and much more. This is also the first book with in-depth coverage of using Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) thin clients to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of computing.
Deploy Linux with your existing PCs, printers, and IT/network infrastructure
Centrally manage users and security through Webmin's convenient Web interface
Deliver reliable email services with Postfix, or integrate Linux mail clients with Microsoft Exchange servers
Configure Windows file sharing with Samba, and Linux file sharing with NFS
Secure network communications with Linux firewalls and OpenSSH
Plan and deploy LTSP thin clients and diskless workstations and the server support for them
Provide LDAP directory services to all your clients
Support users by "remote control"—without leaving your desk
From network security to spam reduction, automated backup/restore to collaboration groupware, Gagné offers specific solutions and proven techniques for leveraging the full power of Linux in your business.
Say goodbye to the expense, hassle, and insecurity of Windows desktops! Say hello to business computing the way it's supposed to be—with Linux!
About the Author
Marcel Gagné is best known as the author of the Linux Journal's "Cooking with Linux" series, winner of the Readers' Choice award for favorite column for three straight years. He has written two highly acclaimed Addison-Wesley books: Moving to Linux and Linux System Administration: A User's Guide.
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Praise for Marcel Gagne's Moving to Linux
- More Praise for Marcel Gagne's Moving to Linux
- Acknowledgements
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1. Getting to Know Linux
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Overview of Deployment Options
- 3. Installation
- 4. Getting Your Hands Dirty
- 5. Customizing the Desktop
- 6. Using Konqueror for File Management
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2. Administration and Deployment
- 7. Installing New Applications
- 8. Devices and Services
- 9. Network and Internet Connections
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10. Becoming One with the Shell
- Linux Commands: An Easy Start
- Working with Files
- A Peek at Metacharacters
- File Permissions in the Shell
- More on rm, or “Oops! I didn't really mean that.”
- Making Your Life Easier with alias
- Standard Input and Standard Output
- Pipes and Piping
- Linux Commands: Working with Directories
- There's No Place Like $HOME
- More on File Permissions
- User and Group Ownership
- Who Can Do What?
- Who Was that Masked User?
- File Attributes
- Finding Anything
- Using grep
- Processes
- Killing Processes
- Working With Editors
- Meet Kate
- I Am vi, the Great and Powerful
- Still More Editors: Emacs, Pico, and NEdit
- Resources
- 11. Web-based Administration
- 12. Users and Groups
- 13. Backup and Restore
- 14. Printers and Printing
- 15. Electronic Mail
- 16. LDAP
- 17. Web Services
- 18. Samba
- 19. Linux File Sharing (NFS)
- 20. Thin Clients: The Server
- 21. Thin Clients: The Clients
- 22. Remote Control
- 23. Security
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3. The Linux Business Desktop
- 24. Email Clients
- 25. Getting Organized
- 26. Surfing the Net
- 27. Word Processing (It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…)
- 28. Spreadsheets:Tables You Can Count On
- 29. Presentation Graphics: For Those Who Need No Introduction!
- 30. Office Graphics and Art (Just Call Me Leonardo)
- 31. Instant Messaging
- 32. Video Conferencing
- A. The GNU General Public License
- B. Automation and Scripting
- About the CD-ROM
Product information
- Title: Moving to the Linux® Business Desktop
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2004
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780131421929
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