Bill Ball, Stephen Smoogen9780672311628, 0672311623
While this guide won’t make you an expert in Linux, it will explain how to get Red Hat Linux to work and how to do basic things with it. Organized into 24 lessons that take about an hour apiece, this book helps you ensure that your system can handle Linux and walks you through the process of installing Red Hat Linux and the Xfree86 windowing system. Ball’s coverage of installation is rather weak, through paying only cursory attention to this confusing process. From there, however, Ball hits his stride in detailing the ins and outs of file-system commands, shells, Internet connections (by PPP), various Internet tools, and administration. For example, in the lesson on graphics programs, Ball explores the most popular graphics program of recent memory: the GNU Image Manipulation Program, affectionately known to its users as the GIMP. Similarly, he covers the popular but cryptic Emacs in his lesson on text editing. In brief, this book introduces you to Linux and the world of Unix tools in a palatable, easy-to-follow way. |
Table of contents :
Contents……Page 5
Introduction……Page 16
Hour 1……Page 21
Hour 2……Page 29
Hour 3……Page 49
Hour 4……Page 61
Hour 5……Page 81
Hour 6……Page 101
Hour 7……Page 121
Hour 8……Page 145
Hour 9……Page 159
Hour 10……Page 179
Hour 11……Page 191
Hour 12……Page 203
Hour 13……Page 211
Hour 14……Page 231
Hour 15……Page 247
Hour 16……Page 261
Hour 17……Page 277
Hour 18……Page 289
Hour 19……Page 299
Hour 20……Page 311
Hour 21……Page 331
Hour 22……Page 347
Hour 23……Page 357
Hour 24……Page 365 |
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