Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed

by Bill Ball and Hoyt Duff

Published 18 December 2002
Continuing with the tradition of offering the best and most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market, Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed includes new and additional material based on the latest release of Red Hat Linux.Incorporating an advanced approach to presenting information about Red Hat Linux, the book aims to provide the best and latest information intermediate to advanced Red Hat users need to know about installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, and security. All chapters concentrate on up-to-date coverage of Red Hat Linux software packages.

Red Hat Linux 7.2 Unleashed

by Bill Ball

Published 12 December 2001
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.