Fedora 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible

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

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!

Check out the new Online Desktop

Find ten cool things to do with Fedora

Run a Fedora 8 quick install

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.

User review
I wish i could return this book for a full refund.
The os on the dvd/cd are such that you can not use the auto updater. So, you get an old out of date os that can not be updated. I paid to much for this book. I wish that I could return it for a full refund. Perhaps its worth $5 including the shipping.

User review
Good product for the more advanced user
This is a good teaching book for the individual who already has working knowledge of Linux. For the novice, this book is too advanced.

User review
integration with Windows
I cannot believe it did not spend much on integration with Windows. I know it's a Linux book but let's face it, 80% of this world is occupied by Windows. How to make Linux to work with Windows is absolutely essential.

User review
Fedora 8
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.

User review
Covers a lot of ground
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.