- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (8 Jan 2002)
- Language French
- ISBN-10: 0596000715
- ISBN-13: 978-0596000714
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 896,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The economics of the free software business have taken another football bounce with the release of O'Reilly's Learning Red Hat Linux, a guide to the most popular distribution of the freely redistributable operating system. The bounce is this: for the typical tech-book list price, you get Bill McCarty's beginners' survey and you get the Red Hat 7.2. McCarty's introduction claims that the two-CD set, printed with the O'Reilly logo, contains "everything you need to install and configure your own Red Hat Linux system". But is it really Red Hat 7.2? Yes, according to one Red Hat official, but like batteries, support is sold. Economics militate in favour of purchasing the book as well as a separate support contract from Red Hat, if needed. The book is, then, the freebie, and consequently a good deal.
McCarty follows his nose through the installation procedure and annotates each step with dos and don'ts, e.g., do use the "custom" install mode rather than "server" or "workstation" if you don't want to lose existing data on the hard drive. He intuits just what the new Linux user will want to do: configure X11, connect to ISP over a modem or LAN, use e-mail, run samba over the network to read a PC hard drive, configure and start an Apache Web server and configure a basic firewall. His chapter on RPM, the Red Hat Package Manager, is brief but useful and his one-page discussion of the Red Hat Network support option is far too brief to be useful, but contains enough hints to allow a new member to keep expectations modest.
Brevity and velocity are the book's strengths as McCarty glides from the highlights of one configuration protocol to another. Error recovery is ignored in favour of tips and hints on error avoidance. Larger issues in system administration strategies are unevenly treated: partitioning theory, dual booting, and backing up are skipped. Loading kernel modules dynamically is never discussed and neither is kernel compiling, and the ubiquitous DHCP client is introduced only after the rather advanced DHCP server is discussed. To round out the knowledge base, I recommend Matt Welch's peerless Running Linux as the entry point for serious Linux system administration.
Ultimately, Learning Red Hat Linux should be viewed as an inexpensive way to obtain legitimate CDs of Red Hat 7.2, with installation documentation that exceeds the norm. Once the installation has either succeeded or failed, however, readers will want to move along to linuxdocs.org or Running Linux. --Peter Leopold
Amazon.co.uk Review
Learning Red Hat Linux walks the reader through the process of installing, configuring and using Red Hat Linux 6 and some of its most popular applications. Networking coverage includes essential Local Area Network configuration, plus excellent coverage of Samba setup and the process involved in establishing a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connection to the Internet. The book would be better with some information on setting up a local Domain Name Service (DNS) server to improve Internet connectivity, but what's here is commendable. The author includes basic coverage of the Apache Web server, plus sendmail and ftp.
Learning Red Hat Linux emphasises the Linux command line for system management tasks, explaining all the vital low-level commands as well as configuration aids like linuxconf. Popular graphical applications are explored, too, including ApplixWare, StarOffice and the WordPerfect suite. Bill McCarty exhibits plenty of patience in his writing and organisational styles, assuming no knowledge of Unix on the part of his readers. This book includes lots of annotated tables that explain various programs' options, and many sections have a procedural format that allows you to follow along on your own Linux machine. --David Wall, amazon.com
Topics covered: Red Hat Linux 6, pre-installation planning, essential command-line tools, X Windows, Gnome, the K Desktop Environment (KDE) and networking. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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If you know nothing about linux then this book is a very good place to start, especially because it comes with a CD with Red Hat 6.0 on it. However if you have played with linux before or have read a number of the HOWTOs then it might not be such a good idea.
I read the book while I was installing linux on a server and found it very useful to ge tme going and configure some of the basic stuff, DNS, Samba and things like that. It also helped me remember how it all works. However I soon ran ahead of where the book went and found some of the sections superficial, especially on configuring the Apache web server. In saying that what I was trying to do was somewhat ahead of what the book was advertised as.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a must for any one learning Red Hat Linux first time. I wanted to learn Linux for my web server project , and this book has been a blessing for me! It's realy easy to understand and the chapters are well organised. On top of that you get the O/S Red Hat linux on CD! Great ! Read the book understand it and you will have Linux up and running in no time. Another O'reilly book worth it's weight in gold.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fine book - providing a very good balance of information on LINUX and how to get set up (Workstation, server). Just what I've been looking for as a lot of books get too technical. clear and concise.
If you just want a good intro and to be up-and-running with LINUX, then this is the book for you.
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1 star is for the free linux CD
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Excellent getting-started book for Linux
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This book is en exelent book for the Linux beginner. it is well written and has allot of examples. IT IS NOT for the expert or as a reference book it is only good for the one with... Read more
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