Linux bible: boot up to Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, and 7 other distributions

Description

Demonstrates new Linux distributions while covering commands, installation, customizing the Linux shell, filesystem management, working with multimedia features, security, networking, and system administration. Abstract: Demonstrates new Linux distributions while covering commands, installation, customizing the Linux shell, filesystem management, working with multimedia features, security, networking, and system administration Content: Linux First Steps -- Starting with Linux -- Understanding Linux -- Exploring Linux History -- What's So Great About Linux? -- Linux Myths, Legends, and FUD -- Getting Started with Linux -- Running Commands from the Shell -- Starting a Shell -- Choosing Your Shell -- Exploring the Shell -- Using the Shell in Linux -- Creating Your Shell Environment -- Working with the Linux File System -- Using the vi Text Editor -- Getting into the Desktop -- Understanding Your Desktop -- K Desktop Environment -- The GNOME Desktop -- Configuring Your Own Desktop -- Getting More Information -- Running the Show -- Learning Basic Administration -- Graphical Administration Tools -- Using the root Login -- Exploring Administrative Commands, Configuration Files, and Log Files -- Using sudo and Other Administrative Logins -- Administering Your Linux System -- Creating User Accounts -- Configuring Hardware -- Managing File Systems and Disk Space -- Monitoring System Performance -- Getting on the Internet -- Connecting to the Network -- Using Ethernet Connections to the Internet -- Using Dial-up Connections to the Internet -- Securing Linux -- Linux Security Checklist -- Using Linux Securely -- Using Log Files -- Using Secure Shell Tools -- Securing Linux Servers -- Using Security Tools Linux Distributions -- Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution -- Installing Linux -- Choosing a Linux Distribution -- Getting Your Own Linux Distribution -- Exploring Common Installation Topics -- Installing from the Linux Bible CD or DVD -- Running Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux -- Digging into Features -- Going Forward with Fedora Core -- Listening to the People at Red Hat -- Listening to the Red Hat Community -- Installing Fedora Core -- Running Debian GNU/Linux -- Inside Debian GNU/Linux -- Getting Help with Debian -- Installing Debian GNU/Linux -- Managing Your Debian System -- Running SUSE Linux -- Understanding SUSE -- What's in SUSE -- Getting Support for SUSE -- Installing OpenSUSE -- Starting with SUSE -- Running KNOPPIX -- KNOPPIX News -- KNOPPIX Features -- Understanding KNOPPIX -- Starting KNOPPIX -- Using KNOPPIX -- Running Yellow Dog Linux -- Understanding Yellow Dog Linux -- Going Forward with Yellow Dog -- Digging into Yellow Dog -- Installing Yellow Dog Linux -- Rebooting Your Linux Mac -- Updating Yellow Dog Linux -- Running Mac Applications with Mac-on-Linux -- Support Options -- Running Gentoo Linux -- Understanding Gentoo -- What's in Gentoo -- Installing Gentoo -- Running Slackware Linux -- Getting into Slackware -- Characterizing the Slackware Community -- Challenges of Using Slackware -- Using Slackware as a Development Platform -- Installing Slackware -- Starting with Slackware -- Running Linspire -- Overview of Linspire -- Getting Into Linspire -- Linspire Support and Software -- Installing Linspire Five-0 -- Running Mandriva -- Mandriva Features -- Exploring Mandriva -- The Mandriva Community -- Installing Mandriva Limited Edition -- Running Ubuntu Linux -- Overview of Ubuntu -- Installing Ubuntu -- Starting with Ubuntu -- Getting More Information About Ubuntu -- Running a Linux Firewall/Router -- Understanding Firewalls -- Protecting Desktops with Firewalls -- Using Firewalls with iptables -- Making a Coyote Linux Bootable Floppy Firewall -- Using Other Firewall Distributions -- Running Bootable Linux Distributions -- Overview of Bootable Linux Distributions -- Choosing a Bootable Linux -- Special Purpose Bootables -- Customizing a Bootable Linux -- Running Applications -- Playing Music and Video -- Playing Digital Media and Obeying the Law -- Playing Music -- Recording and Ripping Music -- Working with TV, Video, and Digital Imaging -- Watching Movies and Video -- Using a Digital Camera with Gtkam and gPhoto2 -- Working with Words and Images -- Using OpenOffice.org -- Other Word Processors -- Using Traditional Linux Publishing Tools -- Creating Documents in Groff or LaTeX -- Printing Documents in Linux -- Displaying Documents with ghostscript and Acrobat -- Working with Graphics -- Using Scanners Driven by SANE -- E-Mailing and Web Browsing -- Using E-Mail -- Choosing a Web Browser -- Gaming with Linux -- Overview of Linux Gaming -- Basic Linux Gaming Information -- Basic X Window Games -- Commercial Linux Games -- Running Servers -- Running a Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) Server -- Components of a LAMP Server -- Setting Up Your LAMP Server -- Operating Your LAMP Server -- Troubleshooting -- Securing Your Web Traffic with SSL/TLS -- Running a Mail Server -- Internet E-Mail's Inner Workings -- About the System and the Software Used -- Preparing Your System -- Installing and Configuring the Mail Server Software -- Testing and Troubleshooting -- Configuring Mail Clients -- Securing Communications with SSL/TLS -- Running a Print Server -- Common UNIX Printing Service -- Setting Up Printers -- Working with CUPS Printing -- Using Printing Commands -- Configuring Print Servers -- Running a File Server -- Setting Up an NFS File Server -- Setting Up a Samba File Server -- Programming in Linux -- Programming Environments and Interfaces -- Understanding Programming Environments -- Using Linux Programming Environments -- Linux Programming Interfaces -- Programming Tools and Utilities -- The Well-Stocked Toolkit -- Using the GCC Compiler -- Automating Builds with make -- Library Utilities -- Source Code Control -- Debugging with GNU Debugger -- Media -- Finding Linux Distributions on the DVD -- Fedora Core 4 Linux -- SUSE Linux -- KNOPPIX Linux -- Slackware 10.1 -- Ubuntu 5.1 -- Finding Linux Distributions on the CD -- Debian GNU/Linux -- Gentoo Linux -- Damn Small Linux -- Inside Security Rescue Toolkit -- System Rescue CD -- Coyote Linux -- Slax -- Linux Distributions Not on the DVD or CD -- Creating Linux CDs -- Entering the Linux Community -- General Linux Sites -- Linux Distributions -- Companies and Groups Supporting Linux -- Major Linux Projects -- Linux User Groups -- GNU General Public License.