Learning Red Hat Linux, Third Edition

By Bill McCarty
March 2003
Pages: 336
ISBN 10: 0-596-00469-9 | ISBN 13: 9780596004699
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The third edition of Learning Red Hat Linux guides 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.
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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:

Preparing your system for installing Linux
Installing and configuring your Linux system and the two popular desktop environments, GNOME and KDE
Linux fundamentals: understanding the basic concepts
Using Linux productivity tools like Open Office
Configuring and administering a multi-user Linux system
Connecting to the Internet
Burn CDs and sync a PalmPilot
Setting up a networked workstation
Setting up Internet services
Understand and write shell scripts so you can peek under the hood and extend the power of Linux

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.

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Third Edition: March 2003
ISBN: 0-596-00469-9
Pages: 336
Average Customer Reviews: (5) (Based on 1 Reviews)

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Learning Red Hat Linux, 3rd Edition Review, July 05 2003

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This book is a must read for anyone interested in the command line world of the most magnificient computer systems in the world. These systems power the juggernaut they call the Internet- the autobahn super-highway of all information systems. I came from a Windows world and as this book states in the intro, if you were always curious as to what happens underneath any of these magnificient systems, pick up the Learning Red Hat Linux! That is becasue nearly all of the web servers and routers that power the Internet are composed of 100% of the DNA of Unix-Linux's software underbelly. Why wouldn't you pick up a book with "learning" in the title since all books should mandatorily strive to provide learning at its core. I am happy with the pace of this book even though I have just recently puchased it. I know this book will immerse me in a perfect intro of Linux and so far I have enjoyed the Background and Installation chapters that provides the backdrop of learning any Operating System. If all books were like The Learning Series book, we would never need any other type of book. This book should set the foundation for a lifelong of independence and self-sufficiency in learning provided your curiosity has been aroused and you act upon it with meaningfull dedication!

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"A well-written manual for new users. It covers the essentials, showing how to install, configure, and use Linux. Recommend to those people who want to try out Linux and who would like to run FH8 alongside MS Windows. A compact, easy-to-handle guide that will sit neatly on a (real-world) desktop as a ready reference to Red Hat Linux."
--Major Keary, PC Update, May 2004

"This is the third edition of O'Reilly's classic introduction...A well-written manual for new users. It covers the essentials, showing how to install, configure, and use Linux. Recommended to those people who want to try out Linux and who ould like to run RH8 alongside MS Windows. A compact, easy-to-handle guide that will sit neatly on a (real-world) desktop as a ready reference to Red Hat Linux."
--Major Keary, "PC Update," August 2003

Reviews From Previous Edition

"Here is a book that will give you a helpful and hearty boost in the right direction along the path to creative computing independence...the O'Reilly publications are cream of the Linux reference publications."
--Rip Yarnall, CCPCUG, Nov 2002

"The first thing that impressed me was the way 'Learning Red Hat Linux' was written. It read more like a novel then a technical manual/book, and I found myself excited to see what was on the next page. The book is a quick get-you-started guide that explains what you need to know, then moves on and does not spend too much time dilly-dallying...Microsoft OS readers should NOT pickup up this book, it will make you want to format your OS and install Linux, it did for me!"--Ken Wilcox, Boise Software Developers Group, July 2002

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