Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed with CDROM [Paperback]

William Ball (Author), Bill Ball (Author), David Pitts (Author)

Book Description

Series: Unleashed | Publication Date: November 2000

Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed shows you how to install, configure, and manage version 7, the latest version of Red Hat operating system. Version 7 boasts the latest stable Linux kernel, a new and improved installation program, updated libraries and a host of other improvements, including the new Xfree86 4.x. Learn how the operating system works from the inside out.

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Amazon.com Review

There are a number of versions of Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed, including a distribution agnostic one without a CD. Most of the content is duplicated across all of them. NFS usage, for example, or setting up XFree 86, is the same, regardless of distribution.

In practice, the biggest difference between the book for Red Hat version 6 and the one for Red Hat 7 is the Red Hat distribution CDs that are included with the latter. It's an excellent way to get Red Hat 7, if you don't have the previous version of the book. Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed is more useful than the manuals that are provided by Red Hat with the retail distribution. What you get here is 1,000 pages of practical information on configuring and using the software. For example, all of the chat clients that are supplied--from the original chat utility itself to ICQ and AIM--are covered in detail. More importantly, the Red Hat manuals basically cover desktop use, while RedHat Linux 7 Unleashed covers networking aspects such as Samba, Apache, NIS, NFS, network management, remote printing, and network security. Also, it goes into areas that the manual doesn't touch, including C/C++ programming, scripting, and building new kernels--to hit just the highlights.

If there's a downside to this book, then, strangely, it has to be the emphasis on the Red Hat distribution. For example, because Red Hat 7 doesn't include the excellent ReiserFS journaling file system, this isn't covered--if you want to use it, you'll have to figure out how to download, install, and set it up yourself.

Nevertheless, RedHat Linux 7 Unleashed certainly is the best manual that's available currently for Red Hat Linux 7, and a fount of hands-on information. --Steve Patient, Amazon.co.uk

From the Back Cover

Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed shows you how to install, configure, and manage version 7, the latest version of Red Hat operating system. Version 7 boasts the latest stable Linux kernel, a new and improved installation program, updated libraries and a host of other improvements, including the new Xfree86 4.x. Learn how the operating system works from the inside out.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1112 pages
• Publisher: Sams (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672319853
• ISBN-13: 978-0672319853
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.9 x 2.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,117,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference Point, November 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed with CDROM (Paperback)

Overall this is a good reference book. It is not the type thing that you are going to sit down and read cover to cover. Some chapters you will read all of and some you will just use to find specific items. It is probably a little advanced for someone new to Linux and a little basic for the more advanced user. It is for the intermediate type, which I am and it is great so far.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A little warning, January 15, 2001

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Philip Washington "baggins2000" (Abilene, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed with CDROM (Paperback)

This book is as good as the previous versions of Linux Unleashed. Maybe a little better since it is only concentrating on the RH versions. Gives quick introductory to a lot of configurations. I think this is helpfull because at least you can make it work without digging through sometimes Illegible README and INSTALL documentation. Sometimes I use the information from the book to try and understand what the author of the README pages is talking about. The basic configurations for Apache, Samba and Networking are there (NIS is there also but didn't try it). Once you get this setup going you can tweak it and see whether it did what you wanted or it crashed. You get a baseline working system though. One little tid-bit of warning. I tried to use the disks provided with the book to upgrade a system and it stalled 3-times in a row. I put in a RH installation disk from RH and the upgrade went fine. So there may be a few kinks on the disks which are provided with this book. I have used the book supplied disks to install individual rpm packages and they seem to work fine.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Got me going again!, January 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed with CDROM (Paperback)

Okay, I picked up this tome and noticed that it had a lot of what I was looking for and then some. I don't know that I'll ever use the programming sections - excpet, perhaps, Perl and C, but I have good books on those already.

I have used this book in three ways. 1) After a system crash and I could not restore my filesystems, it has the commands to do the file checking and get the inodes straightened out. I have probably had to do this on four or five systems because of users must turning things off. (Yes, I have the page and the commands highlighted. 2) Initial installation is pretty easy with Red Hat, but there were times when I did not know what the things were. The book provided better explanations than I could find in many of the on-line documents that are based on the how-to. 3) After a set-up, I used the book to help me configure X-Windows for the new monitor.

Now, I have several years of Unix experience so I'm not looking for how to do an ls command. I am looking for how to make the services work, what this brand of unix calls various files, and how to keep a system managed.

Let me say this bluntly, THIS BOOK WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR BEGINNERS. But, for the person with some guts, or some experience with systems, you will probably find this as valuable a tool as I have...