The second edition of Linux: Installation, Configuration, and Use covers the Red Hat 6, Debian GNU/Linux 2.1, and SuSE 6.1 distributions of the Linux Kernel 2.2. Linux has made great strides in the last two years, especially in the area of installation. No matter how easy installation has become, you are almost certain to run into difficulties during some part of the process. As with the first edition, this book provides the hearty details that simplify the installation and configuration process using native Linux commands and facilities.

Beyond getting Linux up and running, chapters on the windows system (XFree86, an X Windows clone), EMACS (the granddaddy of word processors), and GIMP (a graphics tool similar to Photoshop) enable you to become productive quickly. The Linux command reference chapter, the file system explanation, the system administration details, and the use of various utilities such as file managers and graphic viewers will make this book an often-used reference.

Linux: Installation, Configuration, and Use remains the book of choice for getting Linux set up on your system. While those new to computing may be intimidated by Linux, experienced PC users armed with this book will be using Linux with XFree86 faster and with fewer hassles than ever before. The two accompanying CD-ROMs contain Red Hat Linux 6 and many of the applications described in the book. --Rob Frankland


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A recent European Ph.D. introduces the basics, optimum configuration, Internet access, and applications of this increasingly popular Unix-like operating system alternative to Windows. This edition updates tips on getting up and running from installation to online documentation, and is compliant with Linux Kernel 2.2. The two enclosed CD-ROMs contain a complete Linux system (Redhat Linux 6.0), source code, and additional applications and tools. Coverage of programming, networking, and distribution-specific extensions is purposely minimal. -- Copyright © 1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR


Book Description
"As both a step-by-step guide and a reference, a good place for an aspiring Linux user to start" - Michael Shappe, Linux Journal "If you are looking for one book to teach you all the basics of Linux,... then this is the book for you" - Rob Frankland, Amazon.com "This book is the best of 3 on Linux I've read, and for sure the place to start for those just beginning Linux" - Karl Reed, Amazon.com If you are looking for one book to teach you all the basics of Linux, from installation and usage to simple programming, then this completely revised and updated edition of Linux: Installation, Configuration and Use is the book for you. It will get you up and running with Linux quickly and effectively, cutting out time-consuming installation problems and searches for on-line documentation. Divided into four separate parts, progressing from introduction to installation and implementation, this practical, hands-on guide will help you: * understand your Linux system and configure it to your own requirements * connect to the Internet * learn to program under Linux using bash (the standard shell) and Tcl/Tk * become proficient in Emacs, LaTeX, Gimp, KDE and Gnome * gain an understanding of the various Linux distributions, including RedHat, Debian and SuSE through a comprehensive set of appendices A series of icons alert you to potential problem areas, indicating possible error sources and highlighting time-saving tips and short-cuts. A further icon will notify you of on-line support and point you in the right direction whatever your particular problem. New in this updated and revised edition:


Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German


Book Info
Provides instruction on all the basics of Linux, from installation and usage to simple programming, quickly and effectively, cutting out time consuming installation problems and searches for online documentation. Softcover. CD-ROM included.


From the Back Cover
"As both a step-by-step guide and a reference, a good place for an aspiring Linux user to start" - Michael Shappe, Linux Journal "While no one book will cover the entire operating system, none is better at installation and configuration than Linux Installation, Configuration, and Use." - Rob Frankland, Amazon "This book is the best of 3 on Linux I've read, and for sure the place to start for those just beginning Linux" - Karl Reed, Amazon If you are looking for one book to teach you all the basics of Linux, from installation and usage to simple programming, then this completely revised and updated edition of Linux: Installation, Configuration and Use is the book for you. It will get you up and running with Linux quickly and effectively, cutting out time-consuming installation problems and searches for on-line documentation. Divided into four separate parts, progressing from introduction to installation and implementation, this practical, hands-on guide will help you: • understand your Linux system and configure it to your own requirements • connect to the Internet • learn to program under Linux using bash (the standard shell • become proficient in Emacs, LaTeX, LyX, Gimp, KDE and Gnome • gain an understanding of the various Linux distributions, including RedHat, Debian and SuSE through a comprehensive set of appendices New in this updated and revised edition: NEW: compliant with Linux Kernel 2.2 NEW: coverage of KDE, Gnome, Gimp & LyX NEW: even more configuration tips (RAID, X fonts etc.) NEW: updated chapters on installation, online documentation, configuration, Internet & tools The accompanying CD-ROMs contain a complete Linux system and additional applications- The first CD contains RedHat Linux 6.0 (This book will teach you all you need to know in order to install, configure and use it). The second CD contains all available source code, additional applications and tools (inc. LyX, klyx, xemacs, leafnode, xv), updates and a collection of sample files to the book.0201596288B04062001


About the Author
Michael Kofler is an accomplished and award-winning author of many succesful technical books on subjects including Visual Basic, Linux, Maple, and MySQL, published both in German and in English. 0201596288AB10012001

FROM THE PUBLISHER

If you are looking for one book to teach you all the basics of Linux, from installation and usage to simple programming, then this completely revised and updated edition of Linux: Installation, Configuration and Use is the book for you. It will get you up and running with Linux quickly and effectively, cutting out time-consuming installation problems and searches for on-line documentation.. "Divided into four separate parts, progressing from introduction to installation and implementation, this practical, hands-on guide will help you understand your Linux system and configure it to your own requirements; connect to the Internet; learn to program under Linux using bash (the standard shell); become proficient in Emacs, LaTeX, LyX, Gimp, KDE and Gnome; and gain an understanding of the various Linux distributions, including RedHat, Debian and SuSE through a comprehensive set of appendices.. "The accompanying CD-ROMs contains a complete Linux system and additional applications.

FROM THE CRITICS

Jack Woehr - Electronic Review of Computer Books

It's one thing for a software engineer to develop on Linux. It's quite another thing to plop Linux down chez the customer. Linux Installation, Configuration, and Use, by Michael Kofler, augments the degree of ease and confidence with which Linux can be deployed in the workaday world.

The ambiance of Linux has traditionally been the ambiance of any clique; that is, "If you have to ask, you don't need to know." The explosive growth in install base over the past couple of years has changed things; Linux Installation, Configuration, and Use makes a piquant impression regarding the extent to which the Gnu/Linux world has changed. Elements of installation, operation, and use that once presented the most difficulty are now completely routine, whereas the administration of X-cum-desktop-du-jour has become an absorbing concern.

Linux Installation, Configuration, and Use is well-written, well-edited, and well-rounded, covering adequately installation, most common elements and some uncommon elements of configuration, basic UNIX command-line operations, X and the desktop, and getting onto the Internet. The book is attractively designed and typographically precise and readable. There's some exposition of the different packagings of Linux -- the accompanying CD-ROMs contain RedHat 6.0.

Popular volumes are often way too broad and insufficiently deep. Kofler, while trimming his sails to his youngish audience, is well-informed and reliable, as well as unafraid of sudden dives into the depths. You not only learn from this book how to browse the Web from Linux, you also learn to recompile the kernel, since you never know when even an end user might still be called upon to do so.

Toward the end of the book, space that could reasonably have been devoted to a bit more administrative detail or networking hints is given over instead to document formatting in LaTeX and Lyx, and to a fairly exotic exposition of Gimp, right down to layer manipulation. My first reaction was, "Color rendering is more entertaining than inetd or running postgresql," but after consideration, I conclude Kofler's choice is the correct one. This Age of Linux is really the Age of the Linux End-User Application. Kofler has exercised good judgment in taking the opportunity to emphasize to the mass readership two of the most technically mature, excellent, and broadly useful general computing application bundlings in the canon.

Linux Installation, Configuration, and Use successfully merges the authenticity of an expert Linux exposition with the tone of a mass-market operating system power user guide. Of broad appeal, it's especially a book that should be by the elbow of the intern installing Linux on the workstations of the impatient and ill-informed.

Bill Carmada

Linux is evolving in a hurry, and the best-selling Linux Installation, Configuration, and Use has been thoroughly updated to reflect Linux as it exists today, in the four leading distributions: Red Hat 6, Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, Debian 2.1, and SuSe 6. (Two of these, Red Hat 6 and SuSe 6, are provided on the accompanying CD-ROMs.)

Nearly all the Linuxes have a fairly slick desktop now, and the new generation of Linux desktops are well-covered here. Linux desktop applications are rolling in, and Michael Kofler responds with extensive new coverage of StarOffice, The Gimp for open source graphics, and more.

But the heart of the book is on getting Linux running the way YOU want: custom configuration techniques; how to set up Linux Internet services; getting results with the bash shell (there's also a Linux command reference); and more. You'll learn how to solve installation problems, hand-configure stuff that should happen by itself but doesn't; cope with XWindows; and use the powertools that come with Linux, such as Emacs and LaTex.

It's complete, hands-on, and a very good resource to have around when you run into problems with Linux (which, sorry to say, is not immune from them).— (Bill Carmada, bn.com, editor)

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A recent European Ph.D. introduces the basics, optimum configuration, Internet access, and applications of this increasingly popular Unix-like operating system alternative to Windows. This edition updates tips on getting up and running from installation to online documentation, and is compliant with Linux Kernel 2.2. The two enclosed CD-ROMs contain a complete Linux system (Redhat Linux 6.0), source code, and additional applications and tools. Coverage of programming, networking, and distribution-specific extensions is purposely minimal. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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