| The GNU/Linux® success story is well known. Firmly
established as a high-performance operating system, its
worldwide installations are increasing at phenomenal rates.
Much of this success has been on the server side, but more
and more PC users are turning to Linux on the desktop, as
well.
For those grounded in Microsoft Windows® or Apple
Macintosh® graphical interfaces, the first look at a
powerful Unix-style operating system can be daunting. This
book provides a clear, no-nonsense introduction to the
popular Red Hat® distribution of Linux. It takes you
through installation and shows you the key parts of the
system, always with an eye toward what can go wrong and what
you need to know to get over the humps.
Linux is known as a secure environment and a good platform
to run a web server. These topics are among the many covered
in this book. But did you know you can also burn CDs, sync a
PalmPilot™, and edit slideshow presentations with
powerful tools on Linux? Those topics are covered here, too.
Red Hat currently provides two distributions, both
documented in this book. The first is their commercial,
subscription-based product, called Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and also available through retail channels as Red Hat
Professional Workstation. The second is the freely
distributed Fedora distribution. The Publisher's Edition of
Fedora is included in this book on two disks.
New in this edition are installation instructions for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, package updating for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, information on the GRUB
bootloader, and the CUPS printer system.
Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora tells you how
to:
Prepare your system for installing Linux
Install and configure Linux and the two popular desktop
environments, GNOME and KDE.
Run the most popular productivity tools on Linux: mailers,
web browsers, OpenOffice, and Evolution.
Obtain and set up software through the Red Hat Package
Manager (RPM)
Set up a Linux system for networking, either on your local
area network (LAN), or via a dialup connection to the
Internet.
Use the system-administration tools included with Red Hat,
GNOME, and KDE, including such valuable utilities as Samba
file-sharing and the Apache web server.
Understand and write shell scripts so you can peek under
the hood and extend the power of Linux.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT 
Published by: O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES