Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora, 4th Edition by McCarty, Bill -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora, 4th Edition Table of Contents Copyright Preface

Organization of This Book Sources of Information Conventions Used in This Book How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Why Run Linux?

1.1 Why Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora? 1.2 What Is Linux? 1.3 Reasons to Choose or Not Choose Linux

Chapter 2. Preparing to Install Linux

2.1 Minimum Hardware Requirements 2.2 Collecting Information About Your System 2.3 Preparing Your Hard Disk

Chapter 3. Installing Linux

3.1 Installing the Operating System and Applications 3.2 Start the Installation 3.3 The Firstboot Service 3.4 Logging into the Desktop 3.5 Getting Help

Chapter 4. How Linux Works

4.1 User Accounts 4.2 How Linux Organizes Data 4.3 Using X

Chapter 5. Using the GNOME and KDE Desktops

5.1 Using the GNOME Desktop 5.2 Using the KDE Desktop

Chapter 6. Using Linux Applications

6.1 OpenOffice.org 6.2 Evolution 6.3 Pilot/Handspring Tool 6.4 CD Creator

Chapter 7. Conquering the bash Shell

7.1 Issuing Shell Commands 7.2 Working with the Linux Command Prompt 7.3 Useful Linux Programs

Chapter 8. Installing Software Using the RPM Package Manager

8.1 The Package Management Tool 8.2 The redhat-install-packages Command 8.3 The rpm Command 8.4 Querying the RPM Database 8.5 Installing a Package 8.6 Uninstalling a Package 8.7 Updating a Package 8.8 Freshening a Package 8.9 Advanced RPM Techniques 8.10 Keeping Your Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Up to Date 8.11 Keeping Your Fedora Core System Up to Date

Chapter 9. Configuring and Administering Linux

9.1 Configuring Your System by Using the System Settings Menu 9.2 Administering Your System by Using the System Tools Menu 9.3 Controlling Services by Using the Server Settings Menu

Chapter 10. Connecting to the Internet

10.1 Networking Overview 10.2 Configuring an Internet Connection 10.3 The Mozilla Web Browser 10.4 gFTP FTP Client 10.5 Using wvdial 10.6 Configuring Linux to Use a Cable or DSL Modem

Chapter 11. Setting Up Network Services

11.1 Configuring Hosts 11.2 Samba 11.3 Running Apache 11.4 The Secure Shell 11.5 Implementing a Basic Firewall 11.6 Checking Your Security by Using Nmap 11.7 Network Security Tips

Chapter 12. Advanced Shell Usage and Shell Scripts

12.1 The Power of the Unix Shell 12.2 Filename Globbing 12.3 Shell Aliases 12.4 Using Virtual Consoles 12.5 X and the Shell 12.6 Shell Scripts 12.7 Understanding Shell Scripts

Appendix A. Linux Directory Tree Appendix B. Principal Linux Files Appendix C. Managing the Boot Process

C.1 Booting Linux C.2 Boot Floppies C.3 The GRUB Loader C.4 Boot Parameters

Appendix D. Linux Command Quick Reference Colophon Index

index_SYMBOL index_A index_B index_C index_D index_E index_F index_G index_H index_I index_J index_K index_L index_M index_N index_O index_P index_Q index_R index_S index_T index_U index_V index_W index_X index_Y index_Z

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