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.
Table of Contents
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 00_0672329425_FM.qxd 7/24/07 9:32 AM Page iii 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
Author Biography
Andrew Hudson is a regular freelance contributor to Linux Format magazine, the UK's largest Linux magazine. His particular area of expertise is Fedora and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Paul Hudson is a professional developer and full-time journalist for Future Publishing. His articles have appeared in Mac Format, PC Answers, PC Format, PC Plus, and Linux Format.
