Fedora 7 Unleashed

Fedora 7 Unleashed

By Andrew Hudson, Paul Hudson,

Publisher: Sams
Number Of Pages: 936
Publication Date: 2007-08-20
Sales Rank: 50193
ISBN / ASIN: 0672329425
EAN: 9780672329425
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Sams
Studio: Sams

Continuing with the tradition of offering the most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market, Fedora 7 Unleashed includes new and additional material based on the latest release of Red Hat's Fedora Core Linux distribution. Fedora 7 Unleashed thoroughly covers all of Fedora's software packages, including up-to-date material on new applications, Web development, peripherals, and programming languages. It also includes updated discussion of the architecture of the Linux kernel, USB, KDE, GNOME, broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls, disk tuning, GCC, Perl, Python, printing services (CUPS), wireless support, international support, Java programs support (Eclipse), and security.

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Part I Installation and Configuration

1 Installing Fedora. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2 Fedora Quick Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

3 Working with GNOME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

4 Command Line Quickstart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Part II Desktop Fedora

5 On the Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

6 Productivity Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

7 Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

8 Printing with Fedora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

9 Games. . . 193

Part III System Administration

10 Managing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

11 Automating Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

12 System-Monitoring Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

13 Backing Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

14 Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

15 Remote Access with SSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

16 Xen. . . . . . . 345

Part IV Fedora As a Server

17 Apache Web Server Management . . . . . . . . . 353

18 Administering Database Services . . . . . . . . . . 389

19 File and Print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

20 Remote File Serving with FTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

21 Handling Electronic Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

22 Setting Up a Proxy Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

23 Managing DNS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

24 LDAP . . . . 551

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Part V Programming Linux

25 Using Perl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

26 Working with Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

27 Writing PHP Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

28 C/C++ Programming Tools for Fedora . . . 629

29 Mono. . . . 641

Part VI Fedora Housekeeping

30 Securing Your Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

31 Performance Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

32 Command Line Masterclass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

33 Writing and Executing a Shell Script. . . . . 711

34 Advanced Software Management . . . . . . . . . 737

35 Managing the File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

36 Kernel and Module Management . . . . . . . . . 787

Part VII Appendices

A The History of Red Hat and Fedora . . . . . . 813

B Installation Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821

C Fedora and Linux Internet Resources . . . 847

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