A practical guide to Red Hat Linux; Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 3d ed. (DVD-ROM included).0132280272 A practical guide to Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. ; Fedora A free distribution of the Linux kernel from Red Hat along with a variety of open source utilities. Technical support is not provided for any of the Fedora distribution, only for Red Hat's full fee-based subscription of Linux. Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. , 3d ed. (DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. included) Sobell, Mark G. Prentice Hall 2007 1115 pages $49.99 Paperback QA76.76 This edition covering Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 covers their upgraded security, shell script-writing, and other features. With some overlap with the author's previous books on Linux and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , chapters include practical examples, tip and caution boxes, optional advanced sections, and review exercises. Appendices offer further details on regular expressions, the meaning of "free" software, the last Linux (2.6) kernel, plus troubleshooting resources and a glossary. The DVD-ROM contains the full Fedora Core 5. Limited time free access to an online edition is available. Programming experience is not required but programmers are among the intended audience along with students, home users, and system administrators. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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