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.

Contents

Introduction

Installation and configuration

• Introducing Red Hat Linux
• Preparing to install Red Hat Linux
• Installing Red Hat Linux
• Post-installation configuration
• First step with Linu<
• The X Window system

System administration

• Managing services
• Managing software and system resources
• Managing users
• Managing the filesystems
• Backing up, restoring, and recovery

System services administration

• Printing services
• Network connectivity
• Managing DNS
• Internet connectivity
• Apache web server management
• Database services
• The file transfer protocol
• Handling electronic mail
• News server management

Programming and productivity

• Introduction to C/C++ programming tools
• Shell scripting
• Using Perl
• Kernel and module management
• Productivity applications
• Emulators and other operating systems

Reference

• Internet resources
• RPM package listings
• Common commands Quick reference
• Index