Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Unleashed [Paperback]

Paul Hudson (Author), Andrew Hudson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 25, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0672329298 | ISBN-13: 978-0672329296 | Edition: 1

Red Hat® Fedora™ Core 6 Unleashed presents comprehensive coverage of Fedora Core 6, the popular Linux distribution developed by the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project.

This book provides detailed information on installing, using, and administering Fedora. You’ll learn how to set up a desktop workstation or a high-powered server, and you’ll find complete details on Yum, Fedora’s easy-to-use desktop and productivity software.

 

Red Hat® Fedora™ Core 6 Unleashed covers a wide range of topics from using the software you need every day for work, such as the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Firefox web browser, to configuring your Linux desktop to run smoothly using multiple printers, shell scripts, and more.

 

For the hardcore Linux enthusiast, there is complete coverage of the X Window system, Linux programming (including Mono), web server administration, and network administration.

 

• Install and configure Red Hat’s Fedora Core 6 Linux distribution
• Manage Linux services and users
• Run a printer server with CUPS
• Connect to a local network and the Internet
• Set up and administer a web server with Apache
• Secure your machine and your network from intruders
• Rebuild and install a new Linux kernel
• Learn shell scripting
• Run other operating systems on Fedora with Xen
• Share files with Windows users using Samba
• Get productive with OpenOffice.org
• Play games on Linux
• Use Linux multimedia programs
• Use a database with Fedora
• Set up a firewall
• Watch television on your computer
• Set up a DNS server

 

Andrew Hudson is a regular freelance contributor to Linux Format magazine, the UK’s largest Linux magazine. His particular area of expertise is Fedora Core and the Red Hat Enterprise platform.

 

Paul Hudson is a professional developer and full-time journalist for Future Publishing. His articles have appeared in Mac Format, PC Answers, PC Format, PC Plus, and Linux Format.

 

DVD includes

• The full Fedora Core 6 binary distribution, packed with the
• complete Fedora Core packages
• The complete OpenOffice.org office suite
• Hundreds of additional programs and utilities

 

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Category: Operating Systems/Linux

Covers: Fedora Core 6 Linux Distribution

User Level: Intermediate—Advanced

 

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$49.99 USA / $61.99 CAN / £35.99 Net UK (inc. of VAT)

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About the Author

Andrew Hudson is a regular contributor to Linux Format magazine, the UK’s largest Linux magazine. His particular area of expertise is Red Hat—based distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and The Fedora Project, having worked with the original Red Hat Linux since version 5. Seemingly obsessed with performance, he spends many an evening trying to squeeze more performance out of legacy hardware. Andrew lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife Bernice and son John. Andrew does not like Emacs. Andrew can be contacted at [e-mail].

 

Paul Hudsonis a recognized expert in open-source technologies. He is a professional developer and full-time journalist for Future Publishing. His articles have appeared in Mac Format, PC Answers, PC Format, PC Plus, and Linux Format. Paul is passionate about Free Software in all its forms and uses a mix of Linux and BSD to power his desktops and servers. Paul likes Emacs. Paul can be contacted through http://hudzilla.org.

 

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 1092 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (December 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672329298
• ISBN-13: 978-0672329296
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,391,505 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars treat as a reference text on Core 6, January 16, 2007

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W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Unleashed (Paperback)

Lucky. I use this word in the following sense. If you are using an earlier version of Red Hat Fedora, like perhaps Core 5, then you already will be familiar with many sections of the book. It stands as a pretty complete description of Core 6. The differential with Core 5 is relatively small. Since Core 5 was itself fairly mature and stable.

But what if you are completely new to any linux? Then, if you want to install and learn it, you might as well start with the latest major release, which is covered by the book, at this time of writing. Plus, given the now typical time intervals between major releases of Fedora, Core 6 is likely to remain heavily in use for 2007 and most of 2008. This is the optimal frame of the book.

The book strongly promotes Core 6, and starts off with this remark: "This book provides all the information you need to get up and running with Fedora". Very true. I also certainly recommend you use linux. But there is an ironic counterpoint to that quote, which may be appreciated by some. You do not need all the information in the book in order to start installing and using linux, even if you are completely new to it. The key section on installing linux, be it from the enclosed DVD or downloaded from the web, is thankfully brief. Much effort has been expended in making this as painless as possible, and the brevity of the section attests to this.

Then, when running Core 6, either as a sysadmin or as a user, you can more or less skim various germane sections of the book. Without having to go through most of the narrative. For something like a home computer or a small network of computers, this approach should be adequate. Lessens the formidable length of the book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Fedora book!, March 12, 2009

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C. Hernandez (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Unleashed (Paperback)

The book is good and goes into detail.

It is a great read for someone who wants to venture out into the "Red Hat World".

-C

4.0 out of 5 stars A good updater for Red Hat-derivative distros, July 8, 2007

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Bruce Coryell (Downingtown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Unleashed (Paperback)

I find Fedora Core 6 Unleashed, by Paul Hudson, to be a very good companion to CentOS 5.0, which is a community distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 5. Indeed, FC 6 and CentOS 5 even both use the same Linux kernel, the 2.6.18 kernel. I've been a great fan of Mark Sobell's books and I still am, but this book is a excellent source, both as an overview and as a reference work. It even has a chapter on virtualization. About the only features of CentOS that are not covered in this book are clustering and cluster storage, but in every other respect, this book really hits the spot. As a Linux user, I consider myself to be at the "intermediate" level, and the book is just about right for this level of expertise.