Ubuntu Server is a complete, free server operating system that just works, with the extra Ubuntu polish, innovation, and simplicity that administrators love. Now, there’s a definitive, authoritative guide to getting up and running quickly with the newest, most powerful versions of Ubuntu Server. Written by leading members of the Ubuntu community, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Third Edition, covers all you need to know to make the most of Ubuntu Server, whether you’re a beginner or a battle-hardened senior systems administrator. The authors cover Ubuntu Server from start to finish: installation, basic administration and monitoring, security, backup, troubleshooting, system rescue, and much more. They walk through deploying each of the most common server applications, from file and print services to state-of-the-art, cost-saving virtualization and cloud computing. In addition, you’ll learn how to <ul>
<li>Make the most of Ubuntu Server’s latest, most powerful technologies</li> <li>Discover easy, fast ways to perform key administration tasks</li> <li>Automate Ubuntu installs, no matter how many servers you’re installing</li> <li>Quickly set up low-cost Web servers and e-mail</li> <li>Protect your server with Ubuntu’s built-in and optional security tools</li> <li>Minimize downtime with fault tolerance and clustering </li> <li>Master proven, step-by-step server and network troubleshooting techniques </li> <li>Walk through rescuing an Ubuntu server that won’t boot </li> <li>Deploy your own Ubuntu servers in the cloud</li> </ul>

The Official Ubuntu Server Book

Computers & Technology

Rankin, Kyle

Hill, Benjamin Mako

Operating Systems

Pearson P T R

Ubuntu is a complete, free operating system that emphasizes ease of use, community, and support while enhancing speed, power, and flexibility. It is designed for everyone from computer novices to experts. This title serves a wide audience: novices who just want to test the waters and give Ubuntu a try, intermediate users, and those who want to take the next step toward becoming power users. It is not intended as a guide to highly technical uses like professional systems administration or programming, although there is some technical material here; the focus is on learning the landscape. New in this edition is deep coverage of the groundbreaking, user-experience-focused Unity desktop, an innovative new style of human—computer interaction that has undergone extensive development and testing to provide powerful, industry-leading usability. In addition, you will <ul>
<li>Learn how to use and customize Ubuntu for home, small business, school, government, and enterprise environments</li> <li>Learn how to quickly update Ubuntu to new release versions with upgraded applications</li> <li>Find up-to-the-minute troubleshooting advice from Ubuntu users worldwide to get the help you need quickly</li> <li>Learn Ubuntu Server installation and administration, including LVM and RAID implementation</li> </ul> The DVD includes the complete Ubuntu Linux operating system for installation on PC platforms. The disk is preconfigured with an outstanding desktop environment for both home and business computing, for novices and advanced users.

The Official Ubuntu Book

Helmke, Matthew

Bacon, Jono

Graner, Amber

Implement Industrial-Strength Security on Any Linux Server In an age of mass surveillance, when advanced cyberwarfare weapons rapidly migrate into every hacker’s toolkit, you can’t rely on outdated security methods–especially if you’re responsible for Internet-facing services. In Linux® Hardening in Hostile Networks, Kyle Rankin helps you to implement modern safeguards that provide maximum impact with minimum effort and to strip away old techniques that are no longer worth your time. Rankin provides clear, concise guidance on modern workstation, server, and network hardening, and explains how to harden specific services, such as web servers, email, DNS, and databases. Along the way, he demystifies technologies once viewed as too complex or mysterious but now essential to mainstream Linux security. He also includes a full chapter on effective incident response that both DevOps and SecOps can use to write their own incident response plan. Each chapter begins with techniques any sysadmin can use quickly to protect against entry-level hackers and presents intermediate and advanced techniques to safeguard against sophisticated and knowledgeable attackers, perhaps even state actors. Throughout, you learn what each technique does, how it works, what it does and doesn’t protect against, and whether it would be useful in your environment. <ul>
<li>Apply core security techniques including 2FA and strong passwords</li> <li>Protect admin workstations via lock screens, disk encryption, BIOS passwords, and other methods</li> <li>Use the security-focused Tails distribution as a quick path to a hardened workstation</li> <li>Compartmentalize workstation tasks into VMs with varying levels of trust</li> <li>Harden servers with SSH, use apparmor and sudo to limit the damage attackers can do, and set up remote syslog servers to track their actions</li> <li>Establish secure VPNs with OpenVPN, and leverage SSH to tunnel traffic when VPNs can’t be used</li> <li>Configure a software load balancer to terminate SSL/TLS connections and initiate new ones downstream</li> <li>Set up standalone Tor services and hidden Tor services and relays</li> <li>Secure Apache and Nginx web servers, and take full advantage of HTTPS</li> <li>Perform advanced web server hardening with HTTPS forward secrecy and ModSecurity web application firewalls</li> <li>Strengthen email security with SMTP relay authentication, SMTPS, SPF records, DKIM, and DMARC</li> <li>Harden DNS servers, deter their use in DDoS attacks, and fully implement DNSSEC</li> <li>Systematically protect databases via network access control, TLS traffic encryption, and encrypted data storage</li> <li>Respond to a compromised server, collect evidence, and prevent future attacks</li> </ul> Register your product at informit.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available.

Linux® Hardening in Hostile Networks (Pearson Open Source Software Development Series)

Networking & Cloud Computing

Addison-Wesley Professional

Ubuntu Server is a complete, free server operating system that just works, with the extra Ubuntu polish, innovation, and simplicity that administrators love. Now, there’s a definitive, authoritative guide to getting up-and-running quickly with the newest, most powerful versions of Ubuntu Server. Written by leading members of the Ubuntu community, The Official Ubuntu Server Book covers all you need to know to make the most of Ubuntu Server, whether you’re a beginner or a battle-hardened senior system administrator. The authors cover Ubuntu Server from start to finish: installation, basic administration and monitoring, security, backup, troubleshooting, system rescue, and much more. They walk through deploying each of the most common server applications, from file and print services to state-of-the-art, cost-saving virtualization. In addition, you’ll learn how to 
<ul>
<li>Make the most of Ubuntu Server’s latest, most powerful technologies</li> <li>Discover easy, fast ways to perform key administration tasks</li> <li>Automate Ubuntu installs, no matter how many servers you’re installing</li> <li>Quickly set up low-cost web servers and email</li> <li>Protect your server with Ubuntu’s built-in and optional security tools</li> <li>Minimize downtime with fault tolerance and clustering </li> <li>Master proven, step-by-step server and network troubleshooting techniques </li> <li>Walk through rescuing an Ubuntu server that won’t boot </li> </ul>Two CDs are included, which contain two versions of Ubuntu Server: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, which is supported by Canonical for five years, and the brand-new, cutting-edge Ubuntu Server 9.04.

Ubuntu Server is a complete, free server operating system that just works, with the extra Ubuntu polish, innovation, and simplicity that administrators love. Now, there’s a definitive, authoritative guide to getting up-and-running quickly with the newest, most powerful versions of Ubuntu Server. Written by leading members of the Ubuntu community, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Second Edition, covers all you need to know to make the most of Ubuntu Server, whether you’re a beginner or a battle-hardened senior system administrator. The authors cover Ubuntu Server from start to finish: installation, basic administration and monitoring, security, backup, troubleshooting, system rescue, and much more. They walk through deploying each of the most common server applications, from file and print services to state-of-the-art, cost-saving virtualization and cloud computing. In addition, you’ll learn how to <ul>
<li>Make the most of Ubuntu Server’s latest, most powerful technologies</li> <li>Discover easy, fast ways to perform key administration tasks</li> <li>Automate Ubuntu installs, no matter how many servers you’re installing</li> <li>Quickly set up low-cost Web servers and e-mail</li> <li>Protect your server with Ubuntu’s built-in and optional security tools</li> <li>Minimize downtime with fault tolerance and clustering </li> <li>Master proven, step-by-step server and network troubleshooting techniques </li> <li>Walk through rescuing an Ubuntu server that won’t boot </li> <li>Create your own private cloud computing infrastructure</li> </ul> The included disks contain the versions of Ubuntu Server you’ll need for different CPU architectures: Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS 64-bit CD, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit DVD, both of which are supported by Canonical for five years.

“If you’re a developer trying to figure out why your application is not responding at 3 am, you need this book! This is now my go-to book when diagnosing production issues. It has saved me hours in troubleshooting complicated operations problems.” –Trotter Cashion, cofounder, Mashion DevOps can help developers, QAs, and admins work together to solve Linux server problems far more rapidly, significantly improving IT performance, availability, and efficiency. To gain these benefits, however, team members need common troubleshooting skills and practices. In DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices , award-winning Linux expert Kyle Rankin brings together all the standardized, repeatable techniques your team needs to stop finger-pointing, collaborate effectively, and quickly solve virtually any Linux server problem. Rankin walks you through using DevOps techniques to troubleshoot everything from boot failures and corrupt disks to lost email and downed websites. You’ll master indispensable skills for diagnosing high-load systems and network problems in production environments. Rankin shows how to <ul>
<li>Master DevOps’ approach to troubleshooting and proven Linux server problem-solving principles</li> <li>Diagnose slow servers and applications by identifying CPU, RAM, and Disk I/O bottlenecks</li> <li>Understand healthy boots, so you can identify failure points and fix them</li> <li>Solve full or corrupt disk issues that prevent disk writes</li> <li>Track down the sources of network problems</li> <li>Troubleshoot DNS, email, and other network services</li> <li>Isolate and diagnose Apache and Nginx Web server failures and slowdowns</li> <li>Solve problems with MySQL and Postgres database servers and queries</li> <li>Identify hardware failures–even notoriously elusive intermittent failures</li> </ul>

DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices

Knoppix is a portable Linux distribution with a collection of hundreds of programs and utilities--a veritable Swiss Army knife in CD form. This practical and flexible Linux distribution runs on the fly from a single CD with no need to install anything to your hard drive. Knoppix's excellent hardware detection, collection of programs, and ease of use help explain why Knoppix is radically changing the face of Linux. Though Knoppix is the most popular live CD Linux distribution available, until now there have been no books on the topic. A weighty theoretical tome or a book for dummies won't do--the perfect Knoppix book, like Knoppix itself, must be as useful and clever as a Swiss Army knife. Clearly, Knoppix calls for an O'Reilly Hacks book.Knoppix Hacks is a collection of one hundred industrial-strength hacks for new Linux users, power users, and system administers using--or considering using--the Knoppix Live CD. These tips and tools show how to use the enormous amount of software on this CD to troubleshoot, repair, upgrade, disinfect, and generally be productive without Windows. With Knoppix you can:
<ul>
<li>Test drive a Linux desktop without the need to install Linux</li>
<li>Troubleshoot and repair Linux and Windows systems</li>
<li>Create a thin client network with just one CD</li>
<li>Replace a web server or firewall in an emergency</li>
<li>Perform a security audit on your entire network</li>
<li>Virus scan a Windows computer from the safety of Linux</li>
<li>Customize Knoppix for personal or business use</li>
<li>Easily install the popular Debian GNU/Linux distribution with all of your hardware detected and configured</li>
</ul>
Knoppix Hacks provides ingenious fixes, clever customizations, and time and resource-saving tips. If you want more than the average Knoppix user, this invaluable book is a must-have.

Knoppix Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools

O'Reilly Media

Knoppix is a portable Linux distribution replete with hundreds of valuable programs and utilities -- a veritable Swiss Army knife in bootable CD form. It includes Linux software and desktop environments, automatic hardware detection and hundreds of other quality open source programs.
Whether you're a system administrator or power user, you can use Knoppix for many different purposes. Knoppix boots and runs completely from a single CD so you don't need to install anything to your hard drive. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it. 
What you do need, however, is a comprehensive reference guide so you can benefit from all that Knoppix has to offer. The Knoppix Pocket Reference from O'Reilly fits the bill. This handy book shows you how to use Knoppix to troubleshoot and repair your computer, how to customize the Knoppix CD, running RAM memory checks, recovering data from a damaged hard drive, cloning hard drives, using Knoppix as a Terminal Server, using Knoppix as a kiosk OS, scanning for viruses on a Windows system, editing the Registry of a Windows system, and much more. 
If you want more information than the average Knoppix user, Knoppix Pocket Reference is an absolutely essential addition to your personal library.

Knoppix Pocket Reference: Troubleshoot, Repair, and Disinfect Both Linux and Windows

The fact that Linux has more multimedia application choices than Mac OS X and Windows combined may come as a surprise to many, but not to those who know Linux well. In Linux Multimedia Hacks, author Kyle Rankin showcases the best available multimedia tools so you can maximize the entertainment capabilities of your favorite OS. Included are tips and tricks for connecting to iPods, creating MP3s and Oggs, watching and making DVDs, turning your Linux box into a Tivo ala MythTV, and much more.
You don't have to be a Linux server guru to make use of this book. Linux Multimedia Hacks takes the best of Linux's multimedia tools and with step-by-step instructions shows even novice users how to do cool and useful things with images, audio, and video. It includes entry level hacks that nearly all Linux users will want, such as installing codecs for audio and video playback and managing thousands of photographs. Later, you'll find hacks that cover a variety of advanced projects, from ripping and organizing media files with metatags, to editing video and audio tracks, to creating your own DVDs. Basic or advanced, each hack stands on its own, so you can feel free to jump around to only the sections that interest you.
The book is divided into five easy-to-understand chapters:
<ul>
<li>Images: tips range from basic image edits to automated image manipulation</li>
<li>Audio: hacks include audio format conversion and tweaking metadata within audio files</li>
<li>Video: learn how to covert between video formats, plus how to create your own VCDs and DVDs</li>
<li>Broadcast Media: tips include how to access and create you own web broadcasts as well as watch and record TV</li>
<li>Web: learn how to make your multimedia creations available to the world</li>
</ul>
As one of the most powerful multimedia platforms around, Linux has far more capabilities and features than meets the eye. This latest Hacks book gives you the technical chops to enjoy them all.

Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video

Web Development & Design

If you think Knoppix is just a Linux demo disk, think again. Klaus Knopper created an entire Linux distribution on a bootable CD (and now a DVD) so he could use his favorite open source tools on any computer. This book includes a collection of tips and techniques for using the enormous amount of software Knoppix offers-not just to work and play, but also to troubleshoot, repair, upgrade, and disinfect your system without having to install a thing. Knoppix Hacks is just like the distribution it covers: a veritable Swiss Army knife packed full of tools. Scores of industrial-strength hacks-many of them new to this second edition-cover both the standard Knoppix CD and the feature-rich DVD "Maxi" distribution, which is included with this book. Discover how to use Knoppix to its full potential as your desktop, rescue CD, or as a launching point for your own live CD. With Knoppix Hacks, you can:
<ul>
<li>Investigate features of the KDE desktop and its Internet applications</li>
 <li>Save your settings and data between reboots with persistent storage</li>
 <li>Employ Knoppix as a system administration multitool to replace failed servers and more</li>
 <li>Use the CD/DVD as a rescue disc to repair filesystems or a system that won't boot</li>
 <li>Rescue Windows systems with Knoppix to back up files and settings, hack the registry, and more</li>
 <li>Explore other live CDs based on Knoppix that could augment your system</li>
 <li>Easily install the popular Debian GNU/Linux distribution with all of your hardware detected and configured</li>
 <li>Remaster Knoppix to include your favorite software and custom branding</li>
 
</ul>Whether you're a new Linux user, power user, or system administer, this book helps you take advantage of Knoppix and customize it to your needs. You may just find ways to use Knoppix that you never considered.

Knoppix Hacks: Tips and Tools for Using the Linux Live CD to Hack, Repair, and Enjoy Your PC

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The Official Ubuntu Server Book

The Official Ubuntu Book

Linux® Hardening in Hostile Networks (Pearson Open Source Software Development Series)

The Official Ubuntu Server Book

The Official Ubuntu Server Book

DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices

Knoppix Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools

Knoppix Pocket Reference: Troubleshoot, Repair, and Disinfect Both Linux and Windows

Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video

Knoppix Hacks: Tips and Tools for Using the Linux Live CD to Hack, Repair, and Enjoy Your PC