Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ Bill Ball (Author), Hoyt Duff (Author)

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Product Description

Continuing with the tradition of offering the best and most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market, Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed includes new and additional material based on the latest release of Red Hat Linux.

Incorporating an advanced approach to presenting information about Red Hat Linux, the book aims to provide the best and latest information intermediate to advanced Red Hat users need to know about installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, and security.

All chapters concentrate on Red Hat Linux software packages, including up to date coverage of:

• The architecture of the Linux kernel 2.4.18
• USB
• KDE
• GNOME 1.4
• Broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls
• The XFree86 4.2 architecture and features
• Disk tuning
• GCC 2.2
• Perl 5.6.1
• Python 2
• Printing services (CUPS)
• Security

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Continuing with the tradition of offering the best and most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market, Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed includes new and additional material based on the latest release of Red Hat Linux.

Incorporating an advanced approach to presenting information about Red Hat Linux, the book aims to provide the best and latest information intermediate to advanced Red Hat users need to know about installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, and security.

All chapters concentrate on Red Hat Linux software packages, including up to date coverage of:

* The architecture of the Linux kernel 2.4.18
* USB
* KDE
* GNOME 1.4
* Broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls
* The XFree86 4.2 architecture and features
* Disk tuning
* GCC 2.2
* Perl 5.6.1
* Python 2
* Printing services (CUPS)
* Security

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1056 pages
• Publisher: Sams (May 8, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672325888
• ISBN-13: 978-0672325885
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,024,306 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good overall presentation, November 12, 2003

By A Customer

Alright, this book has some strong points and some weak points. The weak points are: There are only general guidlines to troubleshooting but nothing else. The reference links work, but some are expired. The coverage is "hasty" and kind of sloppy, but in a book like this that is to be expected.
The strong points are: It virtually covers all the areas. It gives you a solid idea on how Linux works and lets you take it from there. It offers enough support to specialized issues such as networking, scripting, and kernel managing. (Again don't expect any in depth troubleshooting, if any at all).

The message is clear: If you want a most general introduction to ALL areas of Linux, buy this book.
If you want the newbie's guide to Linux, this is not it! Chances are that you'll get stuck booting for the first time with weird messages appearing on your screen and this book will not care less! Stay clear in that case and buy someting more limited to its scope but more embracing to troubleshooting.

On the other hand if you are not experienced yet and you want a thick book on your shelf as a guick reference to kernel compilation let's say, then buy this book. As your experience grows your references to this book will diminish.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good..., March 30, 2005

By	James (Hoboken, NJ) - See all my reviews

When I had purchased Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed I had already dived head first into Linux, so I knew some things about the subject. This book is still really good reference when I get stuck trying to do something Red Hat, the sections on the kernel is very well written, but this book isn't a good tutorial on Linux in general. A book I would recommed to the novice and also the power user is "Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition -- by Paul Sheer" its old, but its a classic.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good introductory book, November 10, 2003

By A Customer

Alright, this book has some strong points and some weak points. The weak points are: There are only general guidlines to troubleshooting but nothing else. The reference links work, but some are expired. The coverage is "hasty" and kind of sloppy, but in a book like this that is to be expected.
The strong points are: It virtually covers all the areas. It gives you a solid idea on how Linux works and lets you take it from there. It offers enough support to specialized issues such as networking, scripting, and kernel managing. (Again don't expect any in depth troubleshooting, if any at all).

The message is clear: If you want a most general introduction to ALL areas of Linux, buy this book.
If you want the newbie's guide to Linux, this is not it! Chances are that you'll get stuck booting for the first time with weird messages appearing on your screen and this book will not care less! Stay clear in that case and buy someting more limited to its scope but more embracing to troubleshooting.

On the other hand if you are not experienced yet and you want a thick book on your shelf as a guick reference to kernel compilation let's say, then buy this book. As your experience grows your references to this book will diminish. Mind you there are AMAZING online resources about anything you might need in Linux. Some other popular company in PCs and workstations should be ashamed by its database poverty and limited information sharing ;-)