Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed (Unleashed)

A Practical Guide to Linux(R) Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

Linux Pocket Guide

Linux

Fedora 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Bible (Bible)

Format: Paperback
Author: Christopher Negus
ReleaseDate: 10 May, 2006
Publisher: Wiley
Rating:

Slightly above average resource
Yet it continues to happen. This book has quite a bit of good information, but if I see yet another Linux book devote an entire chapter or more to using Mozilla Firefox, I think I'll scream. Sure, the applications are part of the operating system, but those of us looking for a good OS resource want more meat and less potatoes, so to speak. This book does take you through the steps to setting up most everything that the beginner to intermediate user would want to set up - on their workstation. Most of the content focuses on using the GUI, but at times also gives the command line interface equivalent. If you're looking for a resource to help you find the RHEL/FC equivalent of what you've been doing in another distro, or another UNIX variant, it's not a bad choice.

An excellent book mainly for intermediate level programmer.

The FC5 is significantly improved related to the
previous FC4 and the Negus book succeeds in
presenting to the reader all the appropriate material. The new book of Negus is of superb quality to
the introduction of the basic and of some advanced features
of Fedora Core 5.
Also the accompanied DVD with the full FC5 distribution,
the CD Fedora 5 extras and the live Fedora Core 5 CD,
contribute to the value of the book.
I strongly recommend this book as well as the excellent
Fedora Core 5 distribution that it covers.
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Returning to Fedora
If you have not used the free Red Hat-sponsored Linux system since the Red Hat Linux days, you may be surprised at how excellent Fedora has become. This book reflects the amazing progress that the Fedora Linux project has made recently.

Red Hat has backed up its support for Fedora by putting many of its world-class developers on the project; not only in Fedora Core, but also in Fedora Extras, Fedora Marketing, and Fedora Live CD projects. Those projects are reaching to the greater Linux community in ways that have really begun paying dividends.

As in previous editions, this book takes the reader through a wide range of topics (installation, shell and desktop use, system administration, and more than a dozen network servers). But in this edition, the book also includes features from revitilized Fedora projects outside of Fedora Core.

The first CD that comes with the book (an unofficial live CD built with tools from the Fedora Kadischi project) lets you test out Fedora before installing it. The CD may be a bit slow to boot, but gives a good set of Fedora applications to try out. The second CD contains hundreds of Fedora Extras packages (including some nice multimedia tools and wiki software).

The DVD with the book is the complete Fedora Core 5 installation DVD. It includes more than 2,200 software packages. I hope you enjoy my book. --Chris Negus.