The Secrets
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Following the model of the 7.1 edition, this book is divided into five parts: "Setting Up Red Hat Linux"; "Exploring Red Hat Linux"; "Internetworking Red Hat Linux"; "Managing Red Hat Linux"; and "Programming Red Hat Linux". A key feature of this book is that it includes chapters that explain how to configure and use various types of PC hardware in Red Hat Linux: video cards, monitors, and X Window system; SCSI and IDE devices; CD-ROM drives and sound; printers; modems and terminals; networks; and laptops and PC card. This book provides administrators and power users with hidden techniques so that they might improve the performance from the Red Hat distribution. Undocumented, hard-to-find features are revealed, turning readers into experts. The other topics that are covered are: installation, GNU utilities; Linux applications and utilities; text editing; Internet connection setup; Web, Mail, news, and FTP servers; Samba and NFS; basic and advanced system administration; software installation and upgrade; kernel reconfiguration and upgrade; system and network security; shell and Perl scriping; and Tcl/Tk scripting. This book has the 3-CD version of the Red Hat Linux distribution.