Red Hat Linux: The Complete Reference [With CDROM]

by Richard Petersen

This second edition includes updated material with coverage on the: Linux kernel 2.4, Gnome 1.4 and the K Desktop, KDE 2.0. It also covers Red Hat supported servers such as Tux and thttpd Web servers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072191783
• ISBN13: 9780072191783
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 992 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 7.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Most current Red Hat book

I found this book to be the most up to date Red Hat book in its class, covering the recent Red Hat innovations like the new network and system administration tools (something missing from many other Red Hat books). Though accommodating to the beginner, it provides professional level discussions of server, system, and network administration. Security coverage is very extensive including topics like latest encryption tools, integrity checks, and firewall configuration. Claims that the book overemphasizes GUIs are completely wrong. For example, the book spends almost 40 pages detailing configuration of Linux FTP servers (for which there is no GUI tool). Unix features such as shells, scripts, and regular expressions are covered in far more detail than any other book in its class. As far as GUIs are concerned, Gnome and KDE are here to stay and have become an integral part of most software projects in the Linux community. In all I found it to be not only the most current Red Hat 7.2 book in print, but also fully compatible with Red Hat 7.3.

Red Hat Linux is Required reading for Excellence

This is the most informative Systems Book that I have ever owned.Everything is dealt with in detail and no stone unturned. I have been in systems management for 26 years and few thing have impressed me as much as this book and it's Author Richard Petersen. I approach Linux System problems with new confidence having researched the issue, in this book. I will never buy another book detailing Linux subjects, unless it is by Mr. Petersen. Definitly the Steven King of LINUX.

Good Red Hat details

Excellent up-to-date Red Hat reference covering security issues like encryption, intrusion detection, and firewalls. Features all Red Hat administration tools like those that do automatic updates, network configuration, user setup. Found it to be really helpful with the nuts and bolts of network servers like Ftp, Apache, DNS, and email. Even deals with the newest versions of Gnome and KDE. All in all very wortwhile.