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Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Paperback)

by Mark G. Sobell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 1136 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (12 Aug 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0131470248
  • ISBN-13: 978-0131470248
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.8 x 5.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 636,825 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The best just became BETTER! Completely revised to meet all your Red Hat Linux needs!

Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are advanced operating systems. You need a book that's just as advanced. This book explains Linux clearly and effectively--with a focus on the features you care about, including system security, Internet server setup, and sharing files and printers with Windows systems. Best-selling Linux author Mark Sobell starts at the beginning and walks you through everything that matters, from installing Fedora Core using the included CDs to GNOME, KDE, Samba 3, sendmail, Apache, DNS, NIS, and iptables. Along the way, you learn the "hows" and the "whys." Whether you are a user, an administrator, or a programmer, this book gives you all you need and more. Mark Sobell knows every Linux nook and cranny, has taught hundreds of thousands of readers, and never forgets what it's like to be new to Linux.

Don't settle for yesterday's Linux book...get the ONLY book that meets today's challenges and tomorrow's!

Compared with the other Linux books out there, A Practical Guide to Red Hat® Linux®, Second Edition, delivers...

  • The full Fedora Core operating system on 4 CDs (not the truncated "Publisher's Edition") AND complete coverage of Fedora Core and the 2.6 Linux kernel, PLUS coverage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Deeper coverage of GNOME and KDE, including customization
  • More practical coverage of file sharing with Samba, NFS, and FTP
  • Easier-to-follow coverage of Internet server configuration including Apache, sendmail, NFS, and DNS
  • More up-to-date coverage of security, including SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux), OpenSSH, and firewall setup using iptables
  • Better coverage of "meat-and-potatoes" system/network administration tasks
  • A more practical introduction to writing bash shell scripts
  • More complete coverage of configuring local and network printers using CUPS
  • And much more...including a 500+ word glossary and a comprehensive index to help you find what you need fast!

Includes 4 CDs!
Get the full version of Red Hat's Fedora Core 2 release!



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The best just became BETTER! Completely revised to meet all your Red Hat Linux needs!

Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are advanced operating systems. You need a book that's just as advanced. This book explains Linux clearly and effectively--with a focus on the features you care about, including system security, Internet server setup, and sharing files and printers with Windows systems. Best-selling Linux author Mark Sobell starts at the beginning and walks you through everything that matters, from installing Fedora Core using the included CDs to GNOME, KDE, Samba 3, sendmail, Apache, DNS, NIS, and iptables. Along the way, you learn the "hows" and the "whys." Whether you are a user, an administrator, or a programmer, this book gives you all you need and more. Mark Sobell knows every Linux nook and cranny, has taught hundreds of thousands of readers, and never forgets what it's like to be new to Linux.

Don't settle for yesterday's Linux book...get the ONLY book that meets today's challenges and tomorrow's!

Compared with the other Linux books out there, A Practical Guide to Red Hat® Linux®, Second Edition, delivers...

  • The full Fedora Core operating system on 4 CDs (not the truncated "Publisher's Edition") AND complete coverage of Fedora Core and the 2.6 Linux kernel, PLUS coverage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Deeper coverage of GNOME and KDE, including customization
  • More practical coverage of file sharing with Samba, NFS, and FTP
  • Easier-to-follow coverage of Internet server configuration including Apache, sendmail, NFS, and DNS
  • More up-to-date coverage of security, including SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux), OpenSSH, and firewall setup using iptables
  • Better coverage of "meat-and-potatoes" system/network administration tasks
  • A more practical introduction to writing bash shell scripts
  • More complete coverage of configuring local and network printers using CUPS
  • And much more...including a 500+ word glossary and a comprehensive index to help you find what you need fast!

Includes 4 CDs!
Get the full version of Red Hat's Fedora Core 2 release!



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5.0 out of 5 stars covers nearly everything about linux, 15 Dec 2004
By Antonio Oliveira "tomane23" (Aveiro, Portugal) - See all my reviews
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This book is probably everything you need to keep your box up and running.
The title does not really reflect the contents of the book. Troughout the chapters we find instrutions to handle the tasks using RH's tools, but the in depth description is made using each service's own tools, which are standard and can be used on any distro. There aren't boxes explaining differences between Enterprise Linux and Fedora, these differences are 99% the difference between "system-config-..." and "redhat-config-..." command names.
Chapters are covered in a logical manner. We start with a brief introducion to the Linux World, followed by a chapter dedicated to instalation, including hints for using LVM. Througout the book there are not many pictures, only in two chapters about the Graphical interface. Configuration and administration tasks are performed on the command line and there are chapters for everything, from user managment to kernel recompilation. It covers the most commonly used servers, I could post them here but it's better to look at the TOC on the editor's site, it's all there.
It is easy to read and handles greatly avoiding computer jargon.
It has nearly 1200 pages, and manages seamlessly to include information of how to work with linux.
To advanced users this isn't the best choice since it can't cover all aspects in depth only in 1200 pages. Anyway, if you look for advanced usage instructions about some subject you are likely buying a book totally dedicated to that subject.
It serves specially as a user manual, and a very complete one. Where it doesn't include everything that there is to know about something there are links to resources online or other books that have further detailed information about that subject.
It brings Fedora Core 2, the full version, not an editor's truncated edition.
Together with Fedora installation CD's it makes a bundle well worth its price.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not what it seems, 4 Nov 2007
By C. Porter (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Paperback)
Initially I thought this would be an excellent book which I desperately needed to convert from Windows to Linux for a LAMP build.The more in depth it became the more obvious it became that I was going to have to google for the answers.In some places it appeared as if Sobell plagerised from the help install notes and even then I found those more helpful in places like dealing with vsFTP which should be a simple task to explain. I've never bothered with a book review before but considering the price and the size of the book you would expect it to have more information than linux's man pages. My recommendation is to look else where like O'Reilly books where they don't have great big swathes of information on how to install using KDE and Gnome or using the yum installer but how to perform compiled installs.
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