Red Hat Linux 7.2 Unleashed - Softcover

Ball, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067232282X ISBN 13: 9780672322822

Publisher: Sams Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

Discusses topics including kernel architecture, GNOME, routing, firewalls, filesystems support, XFree86 architecture, printing services, and KDE 2.1/2.2.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

With the advent of the new 2.4-series kernels, a new XFree86 architecture and distribution, and advances soon slated to hit the KDE and GNOME markets, the time is ripe to craft the definitive and classic intermediate to advanced work covering Red Hat Linux. Red Hat Linux 7.2 Unleashed does not incorporate any previous material. All chapters concentrate on Red Hat Linux software and tools, and more specifically those software packages included with Red Hat Linux. There is new topic coverage in areas such as:

* The architecture of the new Linux kernel;
* Use of the new version 4.0 of the rpm command;
* USB;
* KDE 2.1/2.2;
* GNOME 1.4;
* Ximian GNOME;
* Broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalling (SOHO networking);
* Support for new filesystems;
* The new XFree86 architecture and features;
* Disk tuning;
* New printing services (Red Hat now uses LPRng) ;
* Security.

About the Author:

Bill Ball is the best-selling author of a dozen books about Linux, including several previous editions of Red Hat Linux Unleashed, Que's Using Linux, and Sams Publishing's SuSE Linux Unleashed. He is a technical writer, editor, and magazine journalist, and has been using computers for the past 26 years. He first edited books for Que in 1986, and wrote one of the first best-selling Linux books, Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours, in 1997. He has long been a fan of Linux and XFree86, and uses the software on Intel-based PCs, the Apple PowerMac, and MIPS platforms. He is an active member of the Northern Virginia Linux Users Group (NOVALUG), and lives in the Shirlington area of Arlington, Va. He can be contacted through tux/~bball.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 067232282X
• ISBN 13: 9780672322822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1000