A Book by Mark G. Sobell
A Practical Guide to Fedora and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Seventh Edition
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Preface
Brief TOC
Full TOC
Samples from chapters
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Features:
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Includes a DVD with the full Fedora 19
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Covers Fedora 19 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 (beta)
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Full coverage of the LPI Linux Essentials exam objectives plus extensive coverage of the CompTIA Linux+ exam objectives;
Appendix E
provides a map from objectives to pages in the book
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One chapter each on setting up and using these servers/clients: Samba, NIS/LDAP, the new LDAP dynamic server, NFSv4, DNS/BIND, Apache (httpd), OpenSSH, FTP (vsftpd), sendmail, and IPv6
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A new chapter that covers the new firewalld (firewall-config and firewall-cmd) as well as iptables (system-config-firewall)
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New coverage of find, sort, xz (compression), free, xargs, and the nano editor
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Expanded command-line coverage, including a new chapter that details 32 important utilities
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New programming chapters that cover Python and MariaDB/MySQL
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A new tutorial on using the GnuPG encryption tool to provide message identification, integrity, and secrecy
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Full coverage of the systemd init daemon
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A new chapter that covers VMs (virtual machines) and cloud computing, including VMware, QEMU/KVM, virt-manager, virsh, GNOME Boxes, and AWS (Amazon Web Services)
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Seven chapters on sytem administration including setting up a server, DHCP, the Linux filesystem, keeping a system up-to-date using yum, GRUB2, the XFS filesystem, setting up a LAN, and monitoring a network using Cacti
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Three chapters on bash (the Bourne Again Shell) including one chapter on shell programming (writing shell scripts)
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Coverage of the command line and key system GUI tools
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Complete coverage of how to use both su and sudo to gain root privileges
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See the
Preface
for more details of coverage
Links:
Read a brief biography of Mark Sobell.
View a list of Linux Links.
View answers to even-numbered exercises.
Review a list of errata for the book.
Send a note to Mark Sobell at mgs@sobell.com.
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