Product Description

• Provides just what administrators need to configure, manage, maintain, and upgrade a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system
• Red Hat is the most popular Linux distribution, with 70 percent of the U.S. market; RHEL subscriptions climbed to 87,000 during the quarter ending February 2004–up 85 percent
• Covers all four RHEL versions–Desktop, Workstation, Enterprise Server, and Application Server
• Delivers the lowdown on the X Window System, printer configuration, Samba, Internet server set up, administration of users and groups, backups and file restoration, and security

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #540281 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
Install and use the leading Linux distribution today!

Here′s how to set up, manage, and upgrade RHEL Desktop, WS, AS, and ES versions

If you need to get rolling with the newest generation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a hurry, you′ll tip your hat to this friendly guide. It walks you through all the system administration and networking tasks, so you can get your RHEL system up and running and keep it going with maintenance and management tips, too.

Discover how to

• Configure the X Window system
• Set up servers for e–mail, FTP, and DNS
• Use the Red Hat Network and Samba
• Back up and restore files
• Secure your system and test its vulnerability

About the Author
Terry Collings is the Instructional Technologist at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA where he is responsible for researching and implementing emerging technology in an educational environment. He is also the system administrator for Red Hat Linux servers on campus.
Terry is also an adjunct faculty at Lehigh Carbon Community College where he teaches A+ and Network+ certification courses. He has previously taught courses on Unix, Linux, TCP/IP, and Novell Netware.
Terry is the co–author of Linux Bible and Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration (first and second editions) as well as a contributing writer to the Linux Weekend Crash Course. He was the technical editor for the KDE Bible, The Samba Book, Unix Weekend Crash Course, Red Hat Linux 9 For Dummies, Solaris 9 For Dummies, Linux Timesaving Techniques, and Fedora Linux 2 For Dummies.

Customer Reviews

I dont think any user is this stupid!
Even if you have gone through the process of:-
~install Red Hat
~realise you dont know what you are doing
~format PC and install windows

then you will already know more than this book can offer.

I was Microsoft through and through but this book told me nothing more other than that I was already aware of after 20mins of mooching around the desktop.

Okay the book was cheap but then again so is the content!

The author (Terry Collings) has written other books and certainly ones more suited to to people looking at using RHEL.

If you are looking for a cheap desktop then you would not be using RH - try Ubuntu or Fedora and then get a book better suited to those platforms.

If you are going to use RHEL or CENTOS then set your expectations a bit higher and find a better book

Way to basic and pretty much an insult to a users intelligence. Try Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration by Terry Collings [Paperback]