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How to Do Everything: Ubuntu

Jeffrey T. Orloff

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Your hands-on guide to Ubuntu

Now it's easier than ever to get the most out of this wildly popular version of Linux. How to Do Everything: Ubuntu leads you through the interface, the built-in applications, and the process of installing software and peripherals. You'll get details on the full-featured OpenOffice.org productivity suite, as well as the fun side of Ubuntu, including graphics, photos, music, videos, and games. Maximize the power of Ubuntu-on PCs or Macs-with help from this practical guide.

• Install Ubuntu and navigate the GNOME desktop
• Add hardware, software, and peripheral devices
• Secure your computer with Firestarter, anti-virus programs, and backup/restore software
• Use the OpenOffice.org suite components-Writer, Calc, Base, Impress, Math, and Draw
• Set up a network and connect to the Internet via Firefox
• Create and publish your own website
• Use Windows applications in Ubuntu
• Play games and enjoy multimedia applications
• Work with Linux shell commands
• Learn to use the vi and Emacs text editors

Linux Troubleshooting Bible

Christopher Negus, Thomas Weeks

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Troubleshooting Linux yourself 5 out of 5 stars.
18 of 21 people found this review helpful.

Linux systems have become easy enough to use that you no longer have to be a computer expert to operate a Linux desktop or set up a simple server. However, making the leap of faith to bet your organization on Linux requires a decision to:

* Purchase expensive support contracts from Red Hat Inc., Novell, Inc. or some other Linux vendor, or

* Take the responsibility to configure and troubleshoot Linux yourself.

Knowing how to safely deploy a Linux system on the Internet, or debug server software or desktop hardware, can take years to develop. Contributors to the Linux Troubleshooting Bible condense their years of experience into a few hundred pages that will set you on your own road to becoming a Linux guru.

I put together the team of writers on this book to save you the thousands of hours it would take to start from scratch learning Linux troubleshooting on your own. Among the contributors is Tom Weeks, who trains technicians that support and protect literally thousands of Linux systems at Rackspace Managed Hosting, and Jesse Keating, founder of the Fedora Legacy Project, which provides critical security updates to Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core Linux systems. I've tried to leverage more than 20 years of my own experience writing about UNIX and Linux system administration to make the information interesting and entertaining.

I took on this project because I felt strongly that the Linux community needs cohesive resources to take the Linux enthusiast forward to where he can become a skilled Linux professional. With a focus on Red Hat (Fedora and RHEL), Debian, and SuSE systems, I hope you find the Linux Troubleshooting Bible to be a useful way to expand your hobby into a powerful profession.


-- Chris Negus
Co-author Linux Troubleshooting Bible
Author Red Hat Linux Bible (all editions)

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* An indispensable resource for Fedora users who must now work without customer support from Red Hat, Inc., covering critical troubleshooting techniques for networks, internal servers, and external servers
* Chris Negus is a well-known Linux authority and also the author of the top-selling Red Hat Linux Bible (0-7645-4333-4); Thomas Weeks is a trainer and administrator who manages hundreds of Red Hat Linux systems
* Covers all of the most common Fedora problem areas: firewalls, DNS servers, print servers, Samba, NFS, Web servers, FTP servers, e-mail servers, modems, adding hardware, and hardware certification
* Features easy-to-use flowcharts that guide administrators step by step through common Fedora troubleshooting scenarios
* A companion Web site offers troubleshooting updates to keep pace with the frequent Fedora Core releases as well as a forum for exchanging troubleshooting tips

Linux Server Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools

Rob Flickenger

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Setting up and maintaining a Linux server requires understanding not only the hardware, but the ins and outs of the Linux operating system along with its supporting cast of utilities as well as layers of applications software. There's basic documentation online but there's a lot beyond the basics you have to know, and this only comes from people with hands-on, real-world experience. This kind of "know how" is what we sought to capture in Linux Server Hacks. Linux Server Hacks is a collection of 100 industrial-strength hacks, providing tips and tools that solve practical problems for Linux system administrators. Every hack can be read in just a few minutes but will save hours of searching for the right answer. Some of the hacks are subtle, many of them are non-obvious, and all of them demonstrate the power and flexibility of a Linux system. You'll find hacks devoted to tuning the Linux kernel to make your system run more efficiently, as well as using CVS or RCS to track the revision to system files. You'll learn alternative ways to do backups, how to use system monitoring tools to track system performance and a variety of secure networking solutions. Linux Server Hacks also helps you manage large-scale Web installations running Apache, MySQL, and other open source tools that are typically part of a Linux system. O'Reilly's new Hacks Series proudly reclaims the term "hacking" for the good guys. Hackers use their ingenuity to solve interesting problems.

Programmer's Guide to NCurses

Dan Gookin

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Programming the console in UNIX?

Here's just what you need.

First, you'll get a no-nonsense tutorial guide to the nCurses version 5.5 library, taking you from basic to advanced functions step by step. Then you'll find an A-to-Z reference of more than 175 nCurses functions, cross-referenced and illustrated with examples. With this all-purpose nCurses reference, youll:

• Learn techniques that can be used to program Linux®, FreeBSD®, Mac OS® X, or any other UNIX-based OS.
• Program, control, and manipulate text on the terminal screen.
• Control interactive I/O, organize content into windows on the screen, and use color to highlight text and organize information.
• Use a mouse to further refine input.
• Create nCurses programs using your choice of editors.
• Find hundreds of quick, easy-to-understand programming examples.

Author Dan Gookin is known for making technology make sense. Buy this book and you'll see why.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Administration (Course 3037)

Jason Eckert, Novell

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Way overpriced 1 out of 5 stars.
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Looks like he gets lost in his own writing. Book falls apart after the first read.

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As a growing number of companies migrate to Linux, they're looking for trained and talented Linux administrators. You can gain the knowledge and skills you need to become such an administrator by completing SUSE Linux Administration (Course 3037 v2.0). This in-depth, hands-on course covers a variety of topics: installing and configuring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, managing users and groups, securing the system and much more. By completing multiple lab exercises, you can practically apply course concepts and strengthen your proficiency in Linux administration. Before attending this course, you should have fundamental knowledge of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in a computing environment. You can obtain this Linux foundation by completing Getting Started with Linux: Novell's Guide to CompTIA's Linux (Course 3060).

Linux Cookbook

Carla Schroder

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This unique and valuable collection of tips, tools, and scripts provides clear, concise, hands-on solutions that can be applied to the challenges facing anyone running a network of Linux servers from small networks to large data centers in the practical and popular problem-solution-discussion O'Reilly cookbook format. The Linux Cookbook covers everything you'd expect: backups, new users, and the like. But it also covers the non-obvious information that is often ignored in other books the time-sinks and headaches that are a real part of an administrator's job, such as: dealing with odd kinds of devices that Linux historically hasn't supported well, building multi-boot systems, and handling things like video and audio. The knowledge needed to install, deploy, and maintain Linux is not easily found, and no Linux distribution gets it just right. Scattered information can be found in a pile of man pages, texinfo files, and source code comments, but the best source of information is the experts themselves who built up a working knowledge of managing Linux systems. This cookbook's proven techniques distill years of hard-won experience into practical cut-and-paste solutions to everyday Linux dilemmas. Use just one recipe from this varied collection of real-world solutions, and the hours of tedious trial-and-error saved will more than pay for the cost of the book. But those who prefer to learn hands-on will find that this cookbook not only solves immediate problems quickly, it also cuts right to the chase pointing out potential pitfalls and illustrating tested practices that can be applied to a myriad of other situations. Whether you're responsible for a small Linux system, a huge corporate system, or a mixed Linux/Windows/MacOS network, you'll find valuable, to-the-point, practical recipes for dealing with Linux systems everyday. The Linux Cookbook is more than a time-saver; it's a sanity saver.

Linux+ 2005 In Depth

Jason Eckert, M. John Schitka

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A good book. 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a good book to prepare the Linux+ certification.
There are chapters on hardware and software in which you can find also basic informations those could be useful also for technicians to recall knowledge. If you are a Linux expert you could find too easy, but it gives you all you need to understand the topics of the exam.
I'll use it also as reference in the future.

Good book for a Linux+ cert 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 3 people found this review helpful.

In this book you can found a good start to the Linux+ Cert.
It dont have electronic material. It is a con.
Another good book and a great complement is Roderick Smith's Linux+ Study Guide from Sybex...
Best wishes in your cert!!
JRB

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Complete with extensive end-of-chapter review questions, hands-on projects and exercises, "Linux+ 2005 In Depth" serves as a practical guide that maps completely to CompTIA’s 2005 Linux+ certification objectives and is designed to prepare you to successfully pass the exam. The topics introduced in this book - and covered in the certification exam -are geared toward systems administration; however, they are also ideal if you plan to use or develop programs for Linux systems.

Fedora 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible

Christopher Negus

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More than a quarter of a million copies sold in previous editions!

Freedom is a feature

With Fedora's new Online Desktop, you are free to shape your desktop environment to include the services, applications, and online friends you desire. As always, Fedora's total dedication to freedom lets you draw on thousands of free software packages to create the exact desktop or server computer you need.

Fedora puts together the software (provided here on CD and DVD). This book acts as a guide to everything from playing music and writing documents to configuring many powerful Web, file, print, DHCP, and database servers.

Customize Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux to:

• Explore your computer or the Internet from GNOME®, KDE®, or Online Desktops

• Manage and use documents, spreadsheets, presentations, music, and images

• Try the new advanced PulseAudio sound server

• Draw from online software repositories with Package Manager and Package Updater

• Build an Internet server with e-mail, Web, DNS, FTP, and database services

• Secure your computer with firewalls, password protection, and SELinux

• Try out cutting-edge Fedora 8 features:

• Use Codeina to get legal software to play MP3, Windows media, and other audio/video formats

• Organize photos, music, friends, docs, and Web favorites in the new experimental Online Desktop

• Explore the latest in KVM and QEMU virtualization and AIGLX 3D-desktop

What's on the DVD and CD-ROM?

• Install Fedora 8 (8GB) from DVD
• Boot Fedora 8 GNOME Live CD, and then install its contents to your hard drive

System Requirements: Please see the Preface and Appendix A for details and complete system requirements.

Open for more!

• Check out the new Online Desktop

• Find ten cool things to do with Fedora

• Run a Fedora 8 quick install

Add pop and power with Online Desktop and 3D acceleration
Organizing the people, places, and things you need on your desktop is now easier with the new GNOME Online Desktop. Get organized, then pile on some bling with 3D-accelerated desktop effects.

Put friends, photos, and fun on your new Online Desktop
Your favorite people and your online favorites are totally accessible from the new GNOME Online Desktop.

Play with 3D desktop animations
Continued improvements in 3D software let you rotate workspaces on a 3D cube, choose 3D minimize effects, and set 3D wobble effects.

Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux People

Tim Maher

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A guide to a carefully designed subset of the Perl language, this book makes Perl more accessible to those having UNIX/Linux skill levels ranging from elementary to expert by capitalizing on their existing knowledge of important utilities (grep, awk), or essential concepts (filters, command substitution, looping). Dozens of detailed programming examples are shown, drawn from contemporary application areas such as system administration, networking, Web development, databases, finance, HTML, CGI, and text analysis. Broken into two parts, the first is for all who are familiar with core UNIX/Linux commands such as grep and caters to readers ranging from managers and administrative staff to advanced programmers. The second part is for developers experienced in Bourne, Korn, Bash, or POSIX Shell programming and makes Perl scripting easy to learn by showing Shell examples along with their Perl counterparts. Many Perl modules are covered including freely available pre-written code from the CPAN.

Linux for Programmers and Users

Graham Glass, King Ables

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Offering full coverage of Linux in one source, this book documents the most commonly needed topics for new and experienced Linux users and programmers - including over 100 utilities and their common options. Provides a good foundation of understanding for the most often-used Linux utilities. Devotes a chapter to helpful installation information for those who must install their own systems. Includes hundreds of command and code examples throughout. Provides approximately 50 diagrams throughout. Features FTP-able files; code used in the book will be made available on a website hosted by the publisher. A useful reference for anyone using a Linux platform, including programmers, system administrators, and any user who must understand the operating system outside of a specific application.