Running Linux
by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer (Author), Terry Dawson (Author), Lar Kaufman (Author)
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Once a little-known productivity boost for personal computers, Linux is now becoming a central part of computing environments everywhere. This operating system now serves as corporate hubs, Web servers, academic research platforms, and program development systems. All along it's also managed to keep its original role as an enjoyable environment for personal computing, learning system administration and programming skills, and all-around hacking. This book, now in its third edition, has been show more widely recognized for years in the Linux community as the getting-started book people need. It goes into depth about configuration issues that often trip up users but are glossed over by other books. A complete, UNIX-compatible operating system developed by volunteers on the Internet, Linux is distributed freely in electronic form and at a low cost from many vendors. Developed first on the PC, it has been ported to many other architectures and can now support such heavy-duty features as multiprocessing, RAID, and clustering. Software packages on Linux include the Samba file server and Apache Web server; the X Window System (X11R6); TCP/IP networking (including PPP, SSH, and NFS support); popular software tools such as Emacs and TeX; a complete software development environment including C, C++, Java, Perl, Tcl/Tk, and Python; libraries, debuggers, multimedia support, scientific and database applications, and much more. Commercial applications that run on Linux range from end-user tools like word processors and spreadsheets to mission-critical software like the Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and IBM DB/2 database management systems. Running Linux has all the information you need to understand, install, and start using the Linux operating system. This includes a comprehensive installation tutorial, complete information on system maintenance, tools for document development and programming, and guidelines for network, file, printer, and Web site administration. New topics in the third edition include: KDE, a desktop that brings the friendliness and ease-of-use of Windows or the Macintosh to Linux Samba, which turns Linux into an office hub that serves files and printers to Microsoft systems PPP, the most popular software for logging into remote systems over phone lines Revised instructions for installation and configuration, particularly covering the Red Hat, SuSE and Debian distributions show lessTags
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Wonderful; I use it all the time; keep it on my desk, close to hand.
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"Sadly, it has taken us a long time to wade through [the fifth edition of] this book. Not because the content is bad, mind you; more because it's just the kind of slow read you get when you take an eclectic mix of content and arrange it rather randomly. 4/10"
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- Canonical title
- Running Linux
- Original title
- Running Linux
- Original publication date
- 1995-05
- Epigraph
- Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. -- Daisetsu Suzuki (1870 - 1966)
- First words
- This is a book about Linux, a free, open source operating system that supports full multitasking, the X Window System, TCP/IP networking, and much more.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)If you want to dive deeper into the wonderful world of LAMP, we recommend that you read a good book like Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane (O'Reilly) or MySQL/PHP Database Applications by Jay Greenspan and Brad Burger (John Wiley & Sons).
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Technology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 005.4469 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Artificial Intelligence/Virtual Reality Systems programming and programs Operating systems for specific types of computers for personal computers For specific user interfaces
- LCC
- QA76.76 .O63 .W465 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science Computer software
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- 895
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- 6 — Czech, English, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 20
- UPCs
- 4
- ASINs
- 4
