Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed

By William Ball

Welcome to Red Hat Linux!

If you're new to Linux, choosing a Linux distribution to install can be confusing. Relax! You've made the right choice in choosing Red Hat Linux. Nearly 60% of Linux installations either are Red Hat or based on Red Hat Linux. You also made the right choice in choosing Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed! This is the latest edition of the best-selling book on Red Hat Linux. A whole new team of authors has been put together for this edition with the task of giving you all the details about installing, administering, and using the latest version of the newest and best alternative computer operating system for today's PCs. You'll find CD-ROMs in the back of this book that contain the latest version of Intel-based Red Hat Linux and all the software you'll need to get started.

If you're a fan of Linux, you know that Linux is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. Even better, major improvements and updates to existing software have been made right along with the increase in the Linux user base—Linux is now even easier to install! You'll also be quite pleased to learn about the new features and improvements included with the latest Linux kernels, such as support for a number of USB devices. If you've read a previous edition of Red Hat Linux Unleashed, take note of the vast number of improvements we've made to this edition. I think you'll agree that Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed is an indispensable companion for the advanced Linux user.

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Red Hat Linux Complete Command Reference

Compiled By J. Purcel, Red Hat Software Inc.

Red Hat Linux Complete Command Reference book is divided into 9 Parts.

They are

1. User Commands
2. System Calls
3. Library Functions
4. Special Files
5. File Formats
6. Games
7. Miscellaneous
8. Adminstration and Privilaged Commands
9. Kernal Reference Guide
10. Index

Linux complete reference shows you all the commands with great description and examples and make you master how to install, configure, and manage Red Hat Linux operating system. This book contains 1527 pages.

The complete Red Hat Linux resource available in downloadable format! Get in-depth details on Red Hat Linux installation, administration, management, and troubleshooting. You'll master the major GUIs, Gnome, KDE, and the FVWM Windows Manager, and you'll find step-by-step coverage of dual boot installation.

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Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Version 3.0.0

This study guide will help you to prepare for Linux/Unix Exam RH300, Red Hat Certified Engineer. Exam topics include Hardware and installation, configuration and Administration, Kernel Services, Networking Services, X window System, Security, Routers, Firewalls, Clusters and Troubleshooting. The exam has three components: Debug (2.5 hrs), Multiple Choice (1 hr) and server install and network services setup (2.5 ).

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Red Hat Linux Unleashed

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This book is about Linux, a clone of the UNIX operating system that runs on machines with an Intel 80386 processor or better, as well as Intel-compatible CPUs, such as AMD and Cyrix.

This first chapter introduces you to the major features of Linux and helps get you acquainted with them. It does not go into great detail or cover any advanced topics, as this is done in later chapters. Instead, it is intended to give you a head start in understanding what Linux is, what Linux offers you, and what you need to run it.

Don't be afraid to experiment. The system won't bite you. You can't destroy anything by working on it. UNIX has some amount of security built in, to prevent "normal" users (the role you will now assume) from damaging files that are essential to the system. The absolute worst thing that can happen is that you'll delete all of your files and have to go back and reinstall the system. So, at this point, you have nothing to lose.

One word of caution when reading this chapter: At times it will delve into topics that may seem very alien to you, especially if you are new to UNIX and Linux. Don't despair. As you go through this book, you will become more and more familiar with the topics introduced here. Linux is not an easy system to pick up in one day, so don't try to do it. There is no substitute for experience, so relax and learn Linux at your own pace.

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Red Hat® Linux 6 Unleashed

Copyright 1999 by Sams

Welcome to Red Hat Linux! This book has brought together a team of authors to help you learn the details about installing, administering, and using the latest version of the best alternative computer operating system for today's PCs. In the back of this book you'll find a CD-ROM that contains Red Hat Linux 6.0, the most recent version, as well as all the software you need to get started. Linux is the core of the operating system, the kernel, while the Linux operating system and its collection of software are formally known as the distribution. Many of the programs in the Linux distribution come from Berkeley Software Distribution, or BSD UNIX, and the Free Software Foundation's GNU software suite. Linux melds SysV UNIX and BSD features with POSIX compliance and has inherited many of the best features from more than 25 years of UNIX experience. Linux has also helped provide the recent impetus for the Open Source Software movement.

First released on October 5, 1991, by its author and trademark holder, Linus Torvalds, and then at the University of Helsinki (now at Transmeta in California), Linux has spawned an increasingly vocal legion of advocates, users, and contributors from around the world. Originally written as a hobby, Linux now supports nearly all the features of a modern multitasking, multiuser operating system.

Red Hat, Inc., is a computer software development company that has sold products and provided services related to Linux since 1993, and whose revenues have gone from a little over $400,000 to more than $10 million in the last several years. Red Hat's mission is to "provide professional tools to computing professionals." Red Hat provides these professionals tools by doing the following:

• Building tools, which Red Hat releases as freely redistributable software available for unrestricted download from thousands of sites on the Internet
• Publishing books and software applications
• Manufacturing shrink-wrapped software versions of the Linux OS, making Linux accessible to the broadest possible range of computer users
• Providing technical support

Red Hat's customer-oriented business focus forces it to recognize that the primary benefits of the Linux OS are not any of the particular advanced and reliable features for which it is famous. The primary benefit is the availability of complete source code and its freely distributable GNU General Public License (also known as the GPL; see the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE in the back of this book). This gives any home, corporate, academic, or government user the ability to modify the technology to his or her needs and to contribute to the ongoing development of the technology to the benefit of all users. Working with Linux provides benefits such as security and reliability that commercially restricted, binary-only operating systems simply cannot match. Some of these benefits follow:

There are no royalty or licensing fees. Linus Torvalds has control over the Linux trademark, but the Linux kernel and much of the accompanying software is distributed under the GNU GPL.

Linux runs on nearly any CPU. Linux runs on more CPUs and different platforms than any other computer operating system. One of the reasons for this, besides the programming talents of its rabid followers, is that Linux comes with source code to the kernel and is quite portable. Linux for Intel-based computers (typically known as PCs) can be found on this book's CD-ROM.

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