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Author: Bill McCarty
ISBN : 059600589X
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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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- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 4th edition (April 1, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 059600589X
- ISBN-13: 978-0596005894
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6.9 x 9.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Free Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora
My recommendation is, this is a good book for a Linux novice or someone starting with Fedora for the first time.
Those with experience, will probably want to pass on this book. Its not likely you'll pick up anything new
(I didn't). (For those unfamiliar with what Red Hat has done with the split out of Fedora; think of
Fedora Core 1 as Red Hat Linux 9.1 or 10; if Red Hat had continued the product line.)This book focuses on the "NEW" Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core 1 Linux user. The book is a relatively
easy read. Bill McCarty writes a clear and well organized book. From a novice's perspective, the author gives
you, what you need to get Fedora installed, running and usable. The author does a good job of pointing
the reader at additional information sources on each topic. The book is short, less than 300 pages.
This is nice compared to some of the other 1,000 page plus Linux novice tomes; which try to be a "how to get
started" book and a "general reference" all at they same time; except they don't do either well. Linux should
be friendly, not scary. First timers shouldn't have to read a Encyclopedia to get started in Linux. I agree
with the author's choice of brevity for his book.
One suggestion to the author, would be to include output examples with the CLI (Command Line Interface) examples.
He does it with the GUIs, so why not with the CLIs???
I bought the book because "Red Hat Enterprise" (RHE) was in the title. I was disappointed in the fact there wasn't
more detail about RHE. In retrospect, anyone doing RHE, is probably an experienced Linux person working for a
company, where RHE is deployed and may even have had formal training on RHE.
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. These particular distributions are intended for the workstation market and so have many productivity related tools and fewer of the server tools. I particularly appreciated that it does not assume the reader is a high level technician but starts with all the basics and theory behind Linux including things like hard disk organization, hard disk track, sectors, cylinders, etc. Bill McCarthy does an excellent job of explaining what is going on. The author walks you through the installation and configuration using the graphical interface (by far the only appropriate interface for the non-technical person trying to install Linux by their self). This section includes configuring networking and user accounts, organizing data, the default directory tree, file permissions, and using the X system. It also includes a good description of devices and how they are used in Linux, something you really need to understand to setup Linux correctly.
The two most common graphic user interfaces (GNOME and KDE) are examined in detail including common applications that come with Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora. These applications include OpenOffice, Evolution - an email client and personal scheduler, a PDA tool, and a CD writer.
For the more serious administrator he discusses the Bash shell (the default command interpreter), installing new software using the RPM package manager, and network services like Samba (to share files with Windows systems), Apache (web server), Secure Shell (for secure connections), and firewall configuration.
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