Maximize the powerful capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Linux using this comprehensive and up-to-date reference. You’ll get full details on everything from installation and configuration to system administration and server management of Enterprise Linux—with specifics on the Linux Kernel 2.6. Thorough security coverage includes GPG, IPSec, SSH, Kerberos, and firewalls. Learn to deploy and manage Web proxy, mail, and print server, and administer users, software, and file systems.

• Install, manage, secure, and administer Enterprise Linux 3.0 and Fedora
• Master Bluecurve, KDE, GNOME, office and multimedia applications, the shell, file systems, and Internet clients
• Deploy and manage servers—vsftpd and ProFTP (FTP), Apache (Web), Sendmail and Postfix (mail), Squid (proxy), CUPS (print), and HTDig (search), SAMBA and NFS (file), NIS, and BIND (DNS), and DHCP
• Master the complete suite of Red Hat system and network administration tools
• Manage users, services, journaling file systems, RAID devices, LVM volumes, and printers
• Reconfigure the 2.6 kernel and its modules
• Ensure system and network security using packet filtering, authentication, digital signatures, VPNs, IPSEC, and encryption
• Deploy powerful desktop, office, database, graphic, editing, and Internet applications

About the Author

Richard Petersen, MLIS, teaches UNIX and C/C++ courses at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Linux: The Complete Reference (all four editions), Linux Programming: A Beginner’s Guide, and many other titles.