With roughly 20 million users worldwide, Linux is the most talked about success story of open source and free software. Even devotees of Microsoft Windows and Apple's Macintosh are attracted by the unsurpassed stability and flexibility of Linux, but learning a Unix-style operating system can be a daunting task. The second edition of Learning Red Hat Linux gives newcomers exactly what they need to get started.The book includes a complete Linux system CD-ROM from Red Hat Software, one of the most popular distributions of Linux in the U.S. Once it guides beginners through the process of installing and configuring this software, the book offers a thorough but gentle introduction to the basics of using Red Hat Linux. This new edition has been "upgraded" to cover installation and configuration of Red Hat version 7.2, with improved sections on how to use the GNOME and KDE desktop environments, and how to use the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM). Highlights ofLearning Red Hat Linux include:
<ul>
<li>How to prepare your system for installing Linux</li>
<li>How to install and configure Linux</li>
<li>How to install and configure the X Window System</li>
<li>How to use X and the GNOME and KDE desktop environments</li>
<li>How to obtain and set up Linux applications</li>
<li>How to set up a Linux system for networking, either on your local area network (LAN), or via a dialup connection to the Internet</li>
<li>How to install and configure Linux-based servers, including the Apache web server and Samba for integrated file and print services with Windows-based networks</li>
<li>How to understand and write shell scripts to extend the power of Linux</li>
<li>How to install, upgrade, and remove packages using RPM</li>
</ul>

Learning Red Hat Linux: A Guide to Red Hat Linux for New Users

Computers & Technology

McCarty, Bill

Operating Systems

O'Reilly Media

The Linux success story is well known: firmly established as an operating system in widespread use, its worldwide installations are still increasing at phenomenal rates. Much of this success has been on the server side, but more and more PC users are turning to Linux on the desktop, as well. For those grounded in Microsoft Windows or older versions of Apple's Macintosh OS, the first look at Unix-style operating system can be daunting. Learning Red Hat Linux provides a clear, no-nonsense introduction to the popular Red Hat distribution of Linux.The third edition of Learning Red Hat Linux will ease into the world of Linux, guiding you through the process of installing and running Red Hat Linux on your PC. Written in a friendly, easy-to-understand style, this book contains all you need to get started, including the complete Red Hat 8.0 distribution on CDs. With new tutorials covering OpenOffice Tools and the desktop, this book is excellent for first-time Linux users who want to install the operating system on a new PC or convert an existing system to Linux.Highlights of the book include:
<ul>
<li>Preparing your system for installing Linux</li>
<li>Installing and configuring your Linux system and the two popular desktop environments, GNOME and KDE</li>
<li>Linux fundamentals: understanding the basic concepts</li>
<li>Using Linux productivity tools like Open Office</li>
<li>Configuring and administering a multi-user Linux system</li>
<li>Connecting to the Internet</li>
<li>Burn CDs and sync a PalmPilot</li>
<li>Setting up a networked workstation</li>
<li>Setting up Internet services</li>
<li>Understand and write shell scripts so you can peek under the hood and extend the power of Linux</li>
</ul>Since the release of its first edition, Learning Red Had Linux has guided many a PC user into the world of Linux. By the time you've finished this book, you'll have set your computer to create nicely formatted documents, spreadsheets or even graphically appealing presentations, integrated your computer into your local network, set up your e-mail, and even accessed the Internet using the ISP of your choice. You'll need nothing else to get started.

Learning Red Hat Linux

The GNU/Linux® success story is well known. Firmly established as a high-performance operating system, its worldwide installations are increasing at phenomenal rates. Much of this success has been on the server side, but more and more PC users are turning to Linux on the desktop, as well.For those grounded in Microsoft Windows® or Apple Macintosh® graphical interfaces, the first look at a powerful Unix-style operating system can be daunting. This book provides a clear, no-nonsense introduction to the popular Red Hat® distribution of Linux. It takes you through installation and shows you the key parts of the system, always with an eye toward what can go wrong and what you need to know to get over the humps.Linux is known as a secure environment and a good platform to run a web server. These topics are among the many covered in this book. But did you know you can also burn CDs, sync a PalmPilot™, and edit slideshow presentations with powerful tools on Linux? Those topics are covered here, too.Red Hat currently provides two distributions, both documented in this book. The first is their commercial, subscription-based product, called Red Hat Enterprise Linux and also available through retail channels as Red Hat Professional Workstation. The second is the freely distributed Fedora distribution. The Publisher's Edition of Fedora is included in this book on two disks.New in this edition are installation instructions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, package updating for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, information on the GRUB bootloader, and the CUPS printer system.Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora tells you how to:
<ul>
<li>Prepare your system for installing Linux</li>
<li>Install and configure Linux and the two popular desktop environments, GNOME and KDE.</li>
<li>Run the most popular productivity tools on Linux: mailers, web browsers, OpenOffice, and Evolution.</li>
<li>Obtain and set up software through the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)</li>
<li>Set up a Linux system for networking, either on your local area network (LAN), or via a dialup connection to the Internet.</li>
<li>Use the system-administration tools included with Red Hat, GNOME, and KDE, including such valuable utilities as Samba file-sharing and the Apache web server.</li>
<li>Understand and write shell scripts so you can peek under the hood and extend the power of Linux.</li>
</ul>

Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora: An Introduction to a Popular and Widespread Version of Linux

Computer Science

The intensive search for a more secure operating system has often left everyday, production computers far behind their experimental, research cousins. Now SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) dramatically changes this. This best-known and most respected security-related extension to Linux embodies the key advances of the security field. Better yet, SELinux is available in widespread and popular distributions of the Linux operating system--including for Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE--all of it free and open source.SELinux emerged from research by the National Security Agency and implements classic strong-security measures such as role-based access controls, mandatory access controls, and fine-grained transitions and privilege escalation following the principle of least privilege. It compensates for the inevitable buffer overflows and other weaknesses in applications by isolating them and preventing flaws in one application from spreading to others. The scenarios that cause the most cyber-damage these days--when someone gets a toe-hold on a computer through a vulnerability in a local networked application, such as a Web server, and parlays that toe-hold into pervasive control over the computer system--are prevented on a properly administered SELinux system.The key, of course, lies in the words "properly administered." A system administrator for SELinux needs a wide range of knowledge, such as the principles behind the system, how to assign different privileges to different groups of users, how to change policies to accommodate new software, and how to log and track what is going on. And this is where SELinux is invaluable. Author Bill McCarty, a security consultant who has briefed numerous government agencies, incorporates his intensive research into SELinux into this small but information-packed book. Topics include:
<ul>
<li>A readable and concrete explanation of SELinux concepts and the SELinux security model</li>
<li>Installation instructions for numerous distributions</li>
<li>Basic system and user administration</li>
<li>A detailed dissection of the SELinux policy language</li>
<li>Examples and guidelines for altering and adding policies</li>
</ul>With SELinux, a high-security computer is within reach of any system administrator. If you want an effective means of securing your Linux system--and who doesn't?--this book provides the means.

SELinux: NSA's Open Source Security Enhanced Linux

Certification

This book is a comprehensive guide to Java distributed computing. It assumes the reader is an experienced Java programming, but has little experience with network programming and distributed objects. This book covers networking, distributed computing architectures, advanced Java facilities, security, data management, and specific distributed computing techniques including sockets, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java servlets, Microsoft's Distributed Component Model (DCOM), and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). This book covers all these protocols, gives advice on when to use each protocol, and demonstrates how they work (or don't work) together.

Java Distributed Objects

Cassady-Dorion, Luke

Programming

Sams.

Helps familiarize new users with Java and its APIs by providing programming exercises and end-of-section quizzes as well as includes an instructional Website that provides test and programming exercise material not found in the book. Original. (Beginner/Intermediate).

Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 Online in Web Time (The Teach Yourself Series)

GILBERT, Stephen

* Everything readers need to construct firewalls that protect computer networks from attacks and intrusions * Covers the migration from ipchains and how to mange iptable log files * Reviews the customization of firewalls, the Red Hat firewall tool, the firewall setup, and advanced firewall features * Includes numerous examples of firewalls and firewall administration techniques that work on Red Hat Linux systems * Explains how to cost-justify, implement, test, and operate packet filtering firewalls constructed using Red Hat Linux RED HAT(r) PRESS(TM) Linux Solutions from the Experts at Red Hat Red Hat-the world's leading Linux company-presents a series of unrivaled guides that are reviewed and approved by the experts at Red Hat. Each book is packed with invaluable tips and techniques that are ideal for everyone from beginning to advanced network and systems professionals, as well as home and small businesses.

Red Hat Linux Firewalls

Red Hat

All of the necessary study material for the RHCE Certification Exam, RH302. Full coverage of every exam point and tips for passing the exam are included. The CD-ROM contains hundreds of practice questions, a Sybex edge testing engine, sample portable electronic flashcards for PCs and Palm devices, and a searchable electronic copy of the text.

RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Study Guide Exam RH302 (With CD-ROM)

Sybex, Inc.

RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer Exam Notes provides the fastest and most effective way to make sure you're ready to pass the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam. <ul>
<li>The unique, innovative Exam Notes approach helps you gain and retain the knowledge you need, study point by study point</li> <li>Critical Information sections provide detailed analyses of the key issues for each study point</li> <li>Necessary Procedures sections cover the nuts and bolts of each topic with concise step-by-step instructions.</li> <li>Exam Essentials sections highlight crucial subject areas you'll need to know for the exam.</li> <li>Key Terms and Concepts sections define the words and concepts vital to passing the exam.</li> <li>Sample Questions sections preview the types of questions found in the exam and give answers and explanations.</li> </ul>

RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer Exam Notes

Sybex

New users are flocking to Linux literally by the millions. Yet most of these new users draw from Microsoft Windows as their primary computing experience; for them an operating system from the UNIX family is an unfamiliar experience. In Learning Red Hat Linux, Bill McCarty has written a book aimed specifically at this new audience.Learning Red Hat Linux will guide any new user of Linux through the installing and use of the Red Hat® version of the free operating system that is shaking up the commercial world of software. It demystifies Linux in terms familiar to Windows users and gives readers only what they need to start being successful users of Linux.Built around the popular Red Hat distribution of Linux, Learning Red Hat Linux takes the reader step by step through the process of installing and setting up a Red Hat Linux system, and provides a thorough but gentle introduction to the basics of using Red Hat Linux.Because the book is written specifically for the enclosed CD, the reader needs nothing else to get started with this exciting new operating system.

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Learning Red Hat Linux: A Guide to Red Hat Linux for New Users

Learning Red Hat Linux

Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora: An Introduction to a Popular and Widespread Version of Linux

SELinux: NSA's Open Source Security Enhanced Linux

Java Distributed Objects

Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 Online in Web Time (The Teach Yourself Series)

Red Hat Linux Firewalls

RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Study Guide Exam RH302 (With CD-ROM)

RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer Exam Notes

Learning Red Hat Linux