Red Hat Linux Unleashed - Softcover

Pitts, David

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672311739 ISBN 13: 9780672311734

Publisher: Sams, 1997

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Covering version 4.2 of Red Hat Linux, this book includes in-depth coverage of Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), hardware issues, additional installation options, and the latest Linux tools and utilities. The CD-ROM supplies the operating system and added tools.

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Pitts's book guides the Red Hat Linux user through installation, programming, and everything in between. If you want to set up a Linux machine from scratch, this book will ease your task considerably. After explaining how to install the operating system (including an entertaining discussion of Linux loaders LILO, MILO, and SILO), the author explains the mechanics of altering and rebuilding the kernel-key aspects of any Unix environment. He then goes on to discuss the Common Desktop Environment and lots of other Red Hat Linux services, including X Windows, FTP, SMTP, and the popular Apache Web server. Pitts devotes full sections to system administration and the installation of hardware devices. Pitts conclusion covers programming and other automation techniques with scripts, C, C++, Perl, and tcl/tk. The programming tutorials are brief and not the strongest part of the book.

Red Hat Linux Unleashed's only real shortcoming is that it focuses on (and the accompanying CD-ROM contains) Red Hat Linux 4.2, which has been superseded by version 5.0. Much of the information remains useful to the Red Hat 5.0 user. The 1998 edition comes with 5.2 version of Red Hat Linux.

From the Publisher:

This comprehensive reference is the only book a Linux user, programmer, or system administrator will need. The book takes the reader through installation and configuration, to advanced programming and administrating/networking the system. Red Hat Linux is the number one Linux system today with a user base of 3,000,000-5,000,000 users

This book is very timely - version 4.2 of Red Hat (based on the 2.0.x kernel), which was released May 1997 This book is published by the official Red Hat Press, a division of Sams Publishing

Includes in-depth coverage of Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), hardware issues, additional installation options, and the latest Linux tools and utilities

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