Fedora Core 7 & Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Complete Reference

✍ Scribed by Richard Petersen

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1010
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Definitive Linux Resource--Fully Updated and Expanded

Get full details on the powerful features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora 7 from this fully revised, one-stop guide. Linux expert Richard Petersen covers all the bases, from configuring your desktop, customizing your system, and accessing software repositories to handling files and directories, managing devices and servers, and sharing system resources.

Inside, you'll get in-depth coverage of Fedora 7's device and network autoconfiguration, IPv6 and .NET support, SE Linux, software repository installs, custom distribution spins, and system administration tools. You'll learn how to deploy sound security measures, configure automatic device detection, set up logical volumes for file management, and create your own Fedora distribution using your favorite software. 

• Install, use, secure, and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the new Fedora 7
• Configure services using Fedora administration tools for network access, software updates, and file management (LVM and GFS2)
• Manage users, services, file systems, hotplug devices, and printers
• Deploy powerful desktop, office, database, graphics, multimedia, e-mail, Web, and FTP applications
• Optimize security with IPsec, SE Linux, Kerberos, and Netfilter 
• Maintain FTP, Web, mail, DNS, proxy, print, news, and database servers
• Administer system resources using GRUB, Yum, HAL, MONO, and udev
• Select, download, and install a Fedora distribution spin
• Auto-configure IPv6, DHCPv6, and DHCP networks
• Access remote files and printers with NFS, GFS2, and SAMBA

✦ Table of Contents

Part I -
Getting Started......Page 39
1. Introduction to Red Hat
and Fedora Linux
......Page 41
2.
Installing Fedora......Page 63
3. Interface Basics
......Page 93
4. System Configuration
......Page 127
5. Network Configuration
......Page 157
Part II - Environments
......Page 175
6. GNOME
......Page 177
7. KDE
......Page 209
8. The
Shell......Page 231
9.
Shell Configuration......Page 265
10. Managing Linux Files
and Directories
......Page 285
Part III - Applications
......Page 313
11. Office and Database
Applications
......Page 315