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Fedora 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Bible

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This book reflects the amazing progress that the Fedora Linux project has made recently. If you have not used the free Red Hat-sponsored Linux system since the Red Hat Linux days, you may be surprised at how excellent Fedora has become.

Red Hat has backed up its support for Fedora by putting many of its world-class developers on the project; not only in Fedora Core, but also in Fedora Extras, Fedora Marketing, and Fedora Live CD projects. Those projects are reaching to the greater Linux community in ways that have really begun paying dividends.

As in previous editions, this book takes the reader through a wide range of topics (installation, shell and desktop use, system administration, and more than a dozen network servers). But in this edition, the book also includes features from revitilized Fedora projects outside of Fedora Core.

The first CD that comes with the book (an unofficial live CD built with tools from the Fedora Kadischi project) lets you test out Fedora before installing it. The CD may be a bit slow to boot, but gives a good set of Fedora applications to try out. The second CD contains hundreds of Fedora Extras packages (including some nice multimedia tools and wiki software).

The DVD with the book is the complete Fedora Core 5 installation DVD. It includes more than 2,200 software packages. I hope you enjoy my book. --Chris Negus

This book has quite a bit of good information, but if I see yet another Linux book devote an entire chapter or more to using Mozilla Firefox, I think I'll scream. Yet it continues to happen. Sure, the applications are part of the operating system, but those of us looking for a good OS resource want more meat and less potatoes, so to speak. This book does take you through the steps to setting up most everything that the beginner to intermediate user would want to set up - on their workstation. Most of the content focuses on using the GUI, but at times also gives the command line interface equivalent. If you're looking for a resource to help you find the RHEL/FC equivalent of what you've been doing in another distro, or another UNIX variant, it's not a bad choice.

The new book of Negus is of superb quality to
the introduction of the basic and of some advanced features
of Fedora Core 5.
The FC5 is significantly improved related to the
previous FC4 and the Negus book succeeds in
presenting to the reader all the appropriate material.
Also the accompanied DVD with the full FC5 distribution,
the CD Fedora 5 extras and the live Fedora Core 5 CD,
contribute to the value of the book.
I strongly recommend this book as well as the excellent
Fedora Core 5 distribution that it covers.

This book is truly awesome. I knew next to nothing about linux and after having the book for 2 weeks I have built a server ready to control the network for a small business.

a good up to date book on linux but author devotes to much time and space and chapters covering servers which the ordinary desktop user wont use.

I originally bought this book as a sytems administrator's reference. I was disappointed by the lack of depth provided on most topics, and the poor job done indexing.

For example, I ran into an issue where I needed some refresher information on the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I found a single page of basic descriptive information on p134 compared to the in depth information provided by an out-of-date Sam's Fedora Unleashed (Ball and Duff).

I only recommend this book as an orientation to those newly learning Linux/RedHat/Fedora. The book does do a good job of providing links and references of where to obtain further information on many topics.

The book is very good, it was detailed with exactly what I was looking for. this will be a very good book to have for reference in the future. Money well spent.

I bought this book mainly to get the next upgrade of Fedora along with useful documentation. The book is enormous and contains much information that was useful to me along with much more information that was of no interest to me, but may have been interesting to someone else. In other words the book is like an encyclopedia.

This book might just contain the highest possible density of Fedora info. Installation, Gnome, KDE, BASH, Vi, RPM, LANs, NFS, Samba, Sendmail, Apache, MySQL, I cant list it all here. It compares favorably with similar works from Ball and Duff and Sobell, but each has its purpose and I like them all. I love this book. I take it with me everywhere I go even though it weighs about ten pounds. If you think I am mentally unstable, then here is my response:

1. Computers can control everything, they just don't control everything quite yet.

2. When computers control everything, pulling the plug will not be an option, unless you like to live like Theodore Kaczynski or Eric Rudolph.

3. When computers control everything, those who control the computers (Microsoft, Google, AOL) will control you.

4. If you don't have access to Open Source alternatives, then you will be screwed by the Corporations (you already are, but maybe you didn't realize it yet).

5. Fedora is one of your alternatives, it kicks [...], and so does this book.

Thanks for reading my rant. Steve Willie, Olympia, WA