Red Hat Fedora Linux 2 All-in-One Desk Reference

About This Book

Red Hat Fedora Linux 2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies gives you nine different quick-reference guides in a single book. Taken together, these nine books provide detailed information on installing, configuring, and using Fedora Core.

What you’ll like most about this book is that you don’t have to read it sequentially chapter by chapter, or, for that matter, even the sections in a chapter. You can pretty much turn to the topic you want and quickly get the answer to your pressing questions about Fedora Core, be it about using the OpenOffice.org word processor or setting up the Apache Web server.

How This Book Is Organized

Red Hat Fedora Linux 2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies has nine books, each of which focuses on a small set of related topics. If you are looking for information on a specific topic, check the book names on the spine or con-sult the Table of Contents.

This desk reference starts with a minibook that explains the basics of Fedora Core and guides you through the installation process (a unique aspect of this book because you typically do not purchase a PC with Fedora Core pre-installed). The second minibook serves as a user’s guide to Fedora Core — it focuses on exploring various aspects of a Fedora Core workstation, including the GNOME and KDE GUIs and many of the applications that come bundled with Fedora Core. The third minibook is a user’s guide to the OpenOffice.org office applications. The fourth minibook covers networking and Book V goes into using the Internet. Book VI introduces system administration. The sev-enth minibook turns to the important subject of securing a Fedora Core system and its associated network. Book VIII shows you how to run a vari-ety of Internet servers from mail to a Web server. The ninth and final mini-book introduces you to programming.

Here’s a quick overview of the nine books and what they contain:

Book I: Fedora Basics:

What is Fedora Core? Understanding what’s new in the Linux 2.6 kernel. Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Fedora Core. Taking Fedora Core for a test drive.
Book II: Workstations and Applications: Exploring GNOME and KDE. Using the shell (what’s a shell anyway?). Navigating the Fedora Core file system. Exploring the applications such as multimedia software as well as the text editors (vi and ed).

Book III: OpenOffice.org:

Writing with OpenOffice.org Writer. Preparing spreadsheets with OpenOffice.org Calc. Making presentations with OpenOffice.org Impress. Preparing drawings with OpenOffice.org Draw.

Book IV: Networking:

Connecting the Fedora Core PC to the Internet through a dial-up connection or a high-speed always-on connection such as DSL or cable modem. Configuring and managing TCP/IP networks, including wire-less networks.

Book V: Internet:

Using various Internet services such as e-mail, Web surf-ing, and reading newsgroups. Transferring files with FTP.

Book VI: Administration:

Performing basic system administration. Managing user accounts and the file system. Installing applications. Working with devices and printers. Using USB devices. Upgrading and customizing the Linux kernel.

Book VII: Security:

Understanding network and host security. Securing the host and the network. Performing security audits.

Book VIII: Internet Servers:

Managing the Internet services. Configuring the Apache Web server. Setting up the FTP server (including anonymous FTP). Configuring the mail and news servers. Providing DNS. File sharing with NFS. Using Samba to set up a Windows server.


Book IX: Programming:

Finding out the basics of programming. Exploring the software development tools in Fedora Core. Writing shell scripts. Learning C and Perl programming.

Appendix: About the DVD: Summarizes the contents of the book’s compan-ion DVD-ROM.
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