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Fedora 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Biblex$16.21
  (8 reviews)
Best Price: $49.99 $16.21
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
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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! 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.
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Customer Reviews
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Covers a lot of ground
By A2SZRY5TFW27TR on 2008-03-01
3lbs of Fedora Core 8 goodness. This is more like an end-user/junior sysadmin bible though. It covers a _LOT_ of ground -- everything from installation to configuration to deploying network services, the bible goes step by step. In some cases, the bible offers a more complete set of documentation than manuals from Red Hat.
The book doesn't delve into the nitty-gritty of Linux. For example, rolling a custom kernel is out. Probably for good reason though since most people probably won't need to do that. Things like strace or deep security concepts are best researched using other books.
RHEL5 is an after-thought in this bible. Do not buy if you are looking for lots of RHEL specific topics.
Still, for a Fedora Core end-user or someone starting out in sysadmin field, this bible will deliver the goods.
very in depth book about the latest edition of Fedora and RHEL
By ASYNK44B54PCC on 2008-02-15
This is a great textbook. The author goes all out in this book to explain how to use Fedora productively. He explains every little corner you can possibly think of. From how the file system is set up and different from windows to setting up different types of servers. The book is easy to follow along and is pretty much step by step the further you get into the book. I recommend this book to anyone that is just starting out using Linux because of its ease of use and in depth explanations. The cool thing about this book is that it can be used practically with any Linux OS. I tried it out with Ubuntu and everything I've accomplished so far in Fedora I have been able to do in Ubuntu.
Fedora 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible
Linux For the Curious
By AMVW02HD7K4C1 on 2008-02-13
This book with its companion CD/DVD is about the only thing you need to get started with Linux, besides a computer, of course. I tried Linux with Fedora 3 several years ago, and things have really improved with Fedora 8. The writing is superb, at least so far. I'm only on about page 182. There are over 1000 pages. Linux is not for everybody, but if you are curious what it is all about, this book is a great place to start. You can try Linux without installing anything, if you like, from the CD. Or you can install as much as you want from the DVD. A lot of open source software is included: Firefox, Open Office, etc. I even downloaded and installed Picasa. Linux is not for the casual computer user, but if you've read this far...
Excellent Linux Companion
By A2VEE9450IBMHJ on 2008-01-24
Really very helpful and full of great info. I must recommend this book. I already owned the Red Hat 9 Linux Bible and in a way for recycling me in the new Fedora 8 OS think it's a must.
For all users, from the newbie to the professional user that ever find new tips & tricks in this book.
Fedora 8
By AHNYFCCBU5JCI on 2008-03-06
This book is a very good guide to this modern Linux distro. But I missed some better explenation about upgrade and I had a little misshap with the CD.
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