Fedora 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible (Paperback)

by Christopher Negus (Author)
Key Phrases: database server, package manager, volume manager, Getting Started, Red Hat, Installing Fedora (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
More than a quarter of a million copies sold in previous editions!

Freedom is a feature

With Fedora's new Online Desktop, you are free to shape your desktop environment to include the services, applications, and online friends you desire. As always, Fedora's total dedication to freedom lets you draw on thousands of free software packages to create the exact desktop or server computer you need.

Fedora puts together the software (provided here on CD and DVD). This book acts as a guide to everything from playing music and writing documents to configuring many powerful Web, file, print, DHCP, and database servers.

Customize Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux to:

• Explore your computer or the Internet from GNOME®, KDE®, or Online Desktops

• Manage and use documents, spreadsheets, presentations, music, and images

• Try the new advanced PulseAudio sound server

• Draw from online software repositories with Package Manager and Package Updater

• Build an Internet server with e-mail, Web, DNS, FTP, and database services

• Secure your computer with firewalls, password protection, and SELinux

• Try out cutting-edge Fedora 8 features:

• Use Codeina to get legal software to play MP3, Windows media, and other audio/video formats

• Organize photos, music, friends, docs, and Web favorites in the new experimental Online Desktop

• Explore the latest in KVM and QEMU virtualization and AIGLX 3D-desktop

What's on the DVD and CD-ROM?

• Install Fedora 8 (8GB) from DVD
• Boot Fedora 8 GNOME Live CD, and then install its contents to your hard drive

System Requirements: Please see the Preface and Appendix A for details and complete system requirements.

Open for more!

• Check out the new Online Desktop

• Find ten cool things to do with Fedora

• Run a Fedora 8 quick install

Add pop and power with Online Desktop and 3D acceleration
Organizing the people, places, and things you need on your desktop is now easier with the new GNOME Online Desktop. Get organized, then pile on some bling with 3D-accelerated desktop effects.

Put friends, photos, and fun on your new Online Desktop
Your favorite people and your online favorites are totally accessible from the new GNOME Online Desktop.

Play with 3D desktop animations
Continued improvements in 3D software let you rotate workspaces on a 3D cube, choose 3D minimize effects, and set 3D wobble effects.

From the Back Cover
More than a quarter of a million copies sold in previous editions!

Freedom is a feature

With Fedora's new Online Desktop, you are free to shape your desktop environment to include the services, applications, and online friends you desire. As always, Fedora's total dedication to freedom lets you draw on thousands of free software packages to create the exact desktop or server computer you need.

Fedora puts together the software (provided here on CD and DVD). This book acts as a guide to everything from playing music and writing documents to configuring many powerful Web, file, print, DHCP, and database servers.

Customize Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux to:

• Explore your computer or the Internet from GNOME®, KDE®, or Online Desktops

• Manage and use documents, spreadsheets, presentations, music, and images

• Try the new advanced PulseAudio sound server

• Draw from online software repositories with Package Manager and Package Updater

• Build an Internet server with e-mail, Web, DNS, FTP, and database services

• Secure your computer with firewalls, password protection, and SELinux

• Try out cutting-edge Fedora 8 features:

• Use Codeina to get legal software to play MP3, Windows media, and other audio/video formats

• Organize photos, music, friends, docs, and Web favorites in the new experimental Online Desktop

• Explore the latest in KVM and QEMU virtualization and AIGLX 3D-desktop

What's on the DVD and CD-ROM?

• Install Fedora 8 (8GB) from DVD
• Boot Fedora 8 GNOME Live CD, and then install its contents to your hard drive

System Requirements: Please see the Preface and Appendix A for details and complete system requirements.

Open for more!

• Check out the new Online Desktop

• Find ten cool things to do with Fedora

• Run a Fedora 8 quick install

Add pop and power with Online Desktop and 3D acceleration
Organizing the people, places, and things you need on your desktop is now easier with the new GNOME Online Desktop. Get organized, then pile on some bling with 3D-accelerated desktop effects.

Put friends, photos, and fun on your new Online Desktop
Your favorite people and your online favorites are totally accessible from the new GNOME Online Desktop.

Play with 3D desktop animations
Continued improvements in 3D software let you rotate workspaces on a 3D cube, choose 3D minimize effects, and set 3D wobble effects.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1080 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (December 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470230207
• ISBN-13: 978-0470230206
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #420,070 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Covers a lot of ground, February 29, 2008

By	Gordon Ewasiuk (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

3lbs of Fedora Core 8 goodness. This is more like an end-user/junior sysadmin bible though. It covers a _LOT_ of ground -- everything from installation to configuration to deploying network services, the bible goes step by step. In some cases, the bible offers a more complete set of documentation than manuals from Red Hat.

The book doesn't delve into the nitty-gritty of Linux. For example, rolling a custom kernel is out. Probably for good reason though since most people probably won't need to do that. Things like strace or deep security concepts are best researched using other books.

RHEL5 is an after-thought in this bible. Do not buy if you are looking for lots of RHEL specific topics.

Still, for a Fedora Core end-user or someone starting out in sysadmin field, this bible will deliver the goods.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very in depth book about the latest edition of Fedora and RHEL, February 15, 2008

By	Charles T. Mattingly (Kentucky) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great textbook. The author goes all out in this book to explain how to use Fedora productively. He explains every little corner you can possibly think of. From how the file system is set up and different from windows to setting up different types of servers. The book is easy to follow along and is pretty much step by step the further you get into the book. I recommend this book to anyone that is just starting out using Linux because of its ease of use and in depth explanations. The cool thing about this book is that it can be used practically with any Linux OS. I tried it out with Ubuntu and everything I've accomplished so far in Fedora I have been able to do in Ubuntu.
Fedora 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Linux For the Curious , February 13, 2008

By	opawalt "opawalt" (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This book with its companion CD/DVD is about the only thing you need to get started with Linux, besides a computer, of course. I tried Linux with Fedora 3 several years ago, and things have really improved with Fedora 8. The writing is superb, at least so far. I'm only on about page 182. There are over 1000 pages. Linux is not for everybody, but if you are curious what it is all about, this book is a great place to start. You can try Linux without installing anything, if you like, from the CD. Or you can install as much as you want from the DVD. A lot of open source software is included: Firefox, Open Office, etc. I even downloaded and installed Picasa. Linux is not for the casual computer user, but if you've read this far...