A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat

With complete, up-to-date coverage of Fedora 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, this guide shows professionals how to install and configure Linux from the accompanying DVD containing a full version of Fedora 8, navigate its graphical user interfaces, set up Linux to provide file/print sharing and Internet services, and much more.

Mark G. Sobell is President of Sobell Associates Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in UNIX/Linux training, support, and custom software development. He has more than twenty-five years of experience working with UNIX and Linux systems and is the author of many best-selling books, including A Practical Guide to Red Hat^® Linux^®, Third Edition; A Practical Guide to Linux^® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming; and A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux^®, all from Prentice Hall, and A Practical Guide to the UNIX System from Addison-Wesley.

Preface	p. xxxi
Welcome to Linux	p. 1
The GNU Linux Connection	p. 2
The Linux	p. 2.6
Kernel	p. 5
The Heritage of Linux: UNIX	p. 5
What Is So Good About Linux?	p. 6
Overview of Linux	p. 10
Additional Features of Linux	p. 14
Conventions Used in This Book	p. 16
Chapter Summary	p. 19
Exercises	p. 19
Installing Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux	p. 21
Installation Overview	p. 23
The Desktop Live Media CD and the Install Media DVD	p. 24
Planning the Installation	p. 24
The Installation Process	p. 36
The Medium: Where Is the Source Data?	p. 36
Downloading a CD/DVD (FEDORA)	p. 37
Checking and Burning the CD/DVD	p. 41
Rescue CD	p. 42
Gathering Information About the System	p. 43
Finding the Installation Manual	p. 44
More Information	p. 44
Chapter Summary	p. 45
Exercises	p. 46
Advanced Exercises	p. 46
Step-by-Step Installation	p. 47
Running a Fedora Live Session	p. 48
Installing Fedora/RHEL Linux	p. 50
Installation Tasks	p. 63
The X Window System	p. 80
Chapter Summary	p. 88
Exercises	p. 89
Advanced Exercises	p. 89
Getting Started with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux	p. 91
Introduction to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux	p. 93
Curbing Your Power: Superuser/root Access	p. 94
A Tour of the Fedora/RHEL Desktop	p. 94
Getting the Facts: Where to Find Documentation	p. 114
More About Logging In	p. 123
Controlling Windows: Advanced Operations	p. 131
Chapter Summary	p. 134
Exercises	p. 135
Advanced Exercises	p. 136
The Linux Utilities	p. 137
Special Characters	p. 138
Basic Utilities	p. 139
Working with Files	p. 141
(Pipe): Communicates Between Processes	p. 148
Four More Utilities	p. 149
Compressing and Archiving Files	p. 151
Locating Commands	p. 156
Obtaining User and System Information	p. 158
Communicating with Other Users	p. 162
Email	p. 164
Tutorial: Creating and Editing a File with vim	p. 164
Chapter Summary	p. 171
Exercises	p. 174
Advanced Exercises	p. 175
The Linux Filesystem	p. 177
The Hierarchical Filesystem	p. 178
Directory Files and Ordinary Files	p. 178
Pathnames	p. 183
Directory Commands	p. 185
Working with Directories	p. 190
Access Permissions	p. 192
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