- Paperback: 1104 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Pap/Cdr edition (2 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0764557459
- ISBN-13: 978-0764557453
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 6.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,080,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“…best marriage of an OS and an in depth manual that you are likely to find…” (PC Utilities, August 2004)
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∗ The latest edition of this perennial bestseller offers clear, thorough coverage of the basic user and administrator skills needed to master the latest version of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora
∗ This new edition includes key technical support advice for Fedora, guidelines for contributing to the Fedora project, and new sections on managing and manipulating file systems and disk tuning, system rescue, VNC (virtual network computing), and VmWare
∗ A new chapter helps Mac OS 9 and OS X users work closely with Linux servers
∗ Features step–by–step instructions for making Linux installation simple and painless, taking advantage of the new desktop interface, and using the Linux shell, file system, and text editor
∗ Key topics include system administration essentials such as setting up users, automating system tasks, backing up and restoring files, and understanding the latest security issues and threats
∗ This new edition includes key technical support advice for Fedora, guidelines for contributing to the Fedora project, and new sections on managing and manipulating file systems and disk tuning, system rescue, VNC (virtual network computing), and VmWare
∗ A new chapter helps Mac OS 9 and OS X users work closely with Linux servers
∗ Features step–by–step instructions for making Linux installation simple and painless, taking advantage of the new desktop interface, and using the Linux shell, file system, and text editor
∗ Key topics include system administration essentials such as setting up users, automating system tasks, backing up and restoring files, and understanding the latest security issues and threats
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With the recent split between community (Fedora) and commercial (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) versions of Red Hat Linux, Red Hat has created a model that can suit the fast-paced changes in the open source world, while still meeting the demands for a well-supported commercial Linux distribution. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I was a complete novice to linux when i bought this book, i have several other unix / linux books and they have been terribly written. This one was the complete opposite, great walk throughs even for a beginner, telling you step by step! i used it to help me install fedora on my laptop and it worked wonders, solving many problems that i couldnt find solutions to on google.
i now have a rock solid fire wall, squid proxy server, and SSH server running securely on my home network, fantastic!
Dont forget linux is only free if your own time is free!
6 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has proved to be an excellent place to get hold of clear information on Fedora 2 Linux, as well as providing you with the OS itself.
The book has good instructions and covers just about any topic you'd need to know about.
The operating system is amazing, and having upgraded from a copy of SuSE 9.0, I recommend the change. Certain elements, such as the 'yum' command, that installs both software and all the elements you need to run the software, make Fedora 2 simple and fun to use.
Together, the book and the software are an absolute bargain.
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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Excellent starting point
15 Oct 2004
Format:Paperback
Negus' series of Red Hat/Fedora Bibles are, in my humble opinion, the best and possibly only place to start ***for an outstanding overview of what Linux can do.*** You may need specialized books to flesh out a specific need: an apache book, a sendmail book, mySQL, whatever. Then again, there's a good chance you won't unless you want to do something tricky. Negus walks you through, step by step, how to configure Red Hat/Fedora for pretty much anything it's capable of doing, albeit a ***basic*** configuration.
Advice for beginners. If you are a Microsoft user, stay a Microsoft user unless you have a compelling reason to change (money and stability are usually the two best reasons to change - and stability is debatable with XP), are comfortable with computers, are willing to read your butt off, and don't need specific applications that are only written for Microsoft. Always remember: ***in general***, computers do not make money. They just don't. They ***usually*** just make doing whatever it is you do to make money easier, i.e., they save time. If you want to learn, this is a great book with which to start.
Advice for beginners. If you are a Microsoft user, stay a Microsoft user unless you have a compelling reason to change (money and stability are usually the two best reasons to change - and stability is debatable with XP), are comfortable with computers, are willing to read your butt off, and don't need specific applications that are only written for Microsoft. Always remember: ***in general***, computers do not make money. They just don't. They ***usually*** just make doing whatever it is you do to make money easier, i.e., they save time. If you want to learn, this is a great book with which to start.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
In a word: wow
5 Sep 2004
Format:Paperback
This enormous book is nothing short of excellent!
You get the four CD's of Fedora Core 2 included.
The book is full of succinct explanations of how to do a huge number of basic and not so basic tasks in configuring Fedora. The explanantions are logical, ordered and actually work really well. In addition there are tips and windows how-tos for connecting windows to various Fedora provided services such as file servers, print servers and so on.
I am really impressed with this book because it just what the average tinkering user wishing to escape the grip of Microsoft needs to get underway and free from closed source, proprietary OS's that cost jumbo dollars...for $35 you get a really robust, excellent OS (I run it on 2 computers: 1 file/print/database server and 1 desktop) that is fun to play around with and explore as well as 1100 pages of explanations on how to do most of things you'll probably ever need to do (some linux documentation can be obscure and not overly useful if you have to wade thru masses and masses of HTML pages looking for an explanation). It's not guru depth stuff for the most part, but puts you well and truly on the correct path to guru-ness if you wanna go that way. or alternatively, is a just plain excellent if you wanna enjoy a life free of Microsoft (it's a good feeling...!) I have both this and running Linux, O'Reilly (isbn 0596002726), and personally I think this is significantly better value because of its clear content, breadth and depth, clarity in explaining how to do things and you get the OS with it!
So come on...buy it, try it, take control of your PC away from Microsoft and put it back into your hands. Christopher Negus has a lot to tell us and teach us...
This book assumes nothing about your prowess or familiarity with PC's. If you can read and follow 10 step procedures, then you're in business. Sure, there are some pages on linux games, the desktop,publishing and multimedia and such that I consider a bit obvious, but they still cater for the total newbie I guess. So they can't be bad...but the remainer is all good stuff: particularly the 200-400 page sections on administering fedora, network and server set up. Masterful!
Overall: an excellent book that is well written, clear, concise, intertesting and a gateway to opening up your vision to a truly fine OS: Fedora. It's even funny at times, in a dry sort of way.
Previous version was a 2003 Best Linux Book as voted by readers of Linux World Magazine (so it says on the front)...
You get the four CD's of Fedora Core 2 included.
The book is full of succinct explanations of how to do a huge number of basic and not so basic tasks in configuring Fedora. The explanantions are logical, ordered and actually work really well. In addition there are tips and windows how-tos for connecting windows to various Fedora provided services such as file servers, print servers and so on.
I am really impressed with this book because it just what the average tinkering user wishing to escape the grip of Microsoft needs to get underway and free from closed source, proprietary OS's that cost jumbo dollars...for $35 you get a really robust, excellent OS (I run it on 2 computers: 1 file/print/database server and 1 desktop) that is fun to play around with and explore as well as 1100 pages of explanations on how to do most of things you'll probably ever need to do (some linux documentation can be obscure and not overly useful if you have to wade thru masses and masses of HTML pages looking for an explanation). It's not guru depth stuff for the most part, but puts you well and truly on the correct path to guru-ness if you wanna go that way. or alternatively, is a just plain excellent if you wanna enjoy a life free of Microsoft (it's a good feeling...!) I have both this and running Linux, O'Reilly (isbn 0596002726), and personally I think this is significantly better value because of its clear content, breadth and depth, clarity in explaining how to do things and you get the OS with it!
So come on...buy it, try it, take control of your PC away from Microsoft and put it back into your hands. Christopher Negus has a lot to tell us and teach us...
This book assumes nothing about your prowess or familiarity with PC's. If you can read and follow 10 step procedures, then you're in business. Sure, there are some pages on linux games, the desktop,publishing and multimedia and such that I consider a bit obvious, but they still cater for the total newbie I guess. So they can't be bad...but the remainer is all good stuff: particularly the 200-400 page sections on administering fedora, network and server set up. Masterful!
Overall: an excellent book that is well written, clear, concise, intertesting and a gateway to opening up your vision to a truly fine OS: Fedora. It's even funny at times, in a dry sort of way.
Previous version was a 2003 Best Linux Book as voted by readers of Linux World Magazine (so it says on the front)...
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A Good Start on Moving to Linux
30 Jan 2005
Format:Paperback
I find it strange to say that an eleven hundred page (plus) book is really only an introductory book. Unfortunately that's the truth. What you get here is a bunch of stuff. For one thing, you get the operating system itself. And while you can download the coftware free, you'd better be prepared for a pretty long wait, at 56K about a hundred hours for the four 650 MB image disks.
I say "introductory" because there are so many subsidiary packages included in the basic Linux distribution and these can be treated only superficially. For instance MySQL gets about 35 pages. This is enough to get the software up and running, and a little bit about the SQL language. But you're not going to be a power SQL programmer after just 35 pages, you've only touched the surface. And of course each other big area (Apache Web Server, Mail Server, LDAP and a whole lot of other sets of initials) has it's own set of books to expand on what's here.
But you've got to start somewhere, and here's a good place. Mr. Negus is a far better writer than many in the computer business. He's written this as a way to get started in moving to the Linux world. And at this he does a supurb job.
I say "introductory" because there are so many subsidiary packages included in the basic Linux distribution and these can be treated only superficially. For instance MySQL gets about 35 pages. This is enough to get the software up and running, and a little bit about the SQL language. But you're not going to be a power SQL programmer after just 35 pages, you've only touched the surface. And of course each other big area (Apache Web Server, Mail Server, LDAP and a whole lot of other sets of initials) has it's own set of books to expand on what's here.
But you've got to start somewhere, and here's a good place. Mr. Negus is a far better writer than many in the computer business. He's written this as a way to get started in moving to the Linux world. And at this he does a supurb job.
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