"Covers Fedora spins"--Spine

"Detailed IPv6 support"--Cover.

In this fully revised, one-stop guide, Linux expert Richard Petersen covers all the bases, from configuring your desktop, customizing your system, and accessing software repositories to handling files and directories, managing devices and servers, and sharing system resources.

Introduction to Red Hat and Fedora Linux -- Installing Fedora -- Interface basic : login, desktop, help, repositories, multimedia, and spins -- System configuration -- Network configuration -- GNOME -- The K desktop environment : KDE -- The shell -- Shell configuration -- Managing Linux files and directories : directories, archives, and compression -- Office and database applications -- Graphics tools and multimedia -- Mail and news clients -- Web, FTP, and Java clients -- Network tools -- Encryption, integrity checks, and signatures : GNU privacy guard -- Security-enhanced Linux : SELinux -- Internet protocol security : IPsec -- Secure Shell and Kerberos -- Network firewalls : Netfilter -- Managing services -- FTP servers -- Web servers : Apache -- Proxy servers : Squid -- Mail servers : SMTP, POP, and IMAP -- Print news, and database servers : CUPS, INN, and MySQL -- Basic system administration -- Managing users -- Software management -- File system management -- RAID and LVM -- Devices and modules : udev, HAL, and MAKEDEV -- Kernel administration : virtualization -- Backup management : rsync, Amanda, and dump/restore -- Administering TCP/IP networks -- Domain name system -- Network autoconfiguration : IPv6, DHCPv6, and DHCP -- NFS, NIS, and GFS -- Samba.

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