Linux: The Complete Reference

Richard Petersen has an MLIS in library and information studies and teaches UNIX and C/C++ courses at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Linux: The Complete Reference (all four previous editions), Linux Programming: A Beginners Guide, and many other titles.

Part I: Introduction. Chapter 1: Introduction to Linux. Chapter 2: Installing Red Hat Linux. Chapter 3: Installing OpenLinux. Chapter 4: Interface Basics. Chapter 5: System Configuration. Chapter 6: Network Configuration. Chapter 7: Security Configuration. Part II: Environments. Chapter 8: The K Desktop Environment: KDE. Chapter 9: Gnome. Chapter 10: Window Manager.s Chapter 11: The Shell. Chapter 12: The Linux File Sructure. Chapter 13: Shell Configuration. Part III: Internet. Chapter 14: Mail Clients. Chapter 15: Usenet and Newsreaders. Chapter 16: FTP Clients. Chapter 17: The World Wide Web. Chapter 18: Network Tools. Part IV: Applications. Chapter 19: Software Management. Chapter 20: Office Applications. Chapter 21: Database Management Systems, Graphic Tools, and Multimedia. Chapter 22: Editors. Part V: Servers. Chapter 23: Server Management. Chapter 24: FTP Servers. Chapter 25: Apache Web Server. Chapter 26: Domain Name System. Chapter 27: Mail Servers: SMTP, POP, and IMAP. Chapter 28: News, Proxy, and Search Servers. Part VI: Administration. Chapter 29: Basic System Administration. Chapter 30: Administration Tools. Chapter 31: Managing Users. Chapter 32: File System Administration. Chapter 33: Devices. Chapter 34: Kernel Administration. Chapter 35: The X Window System and XFree86. Part VII: Network Administration. Chapter 36: Configuring Network Connections. Chapter 37: Samba, NFS, NIS, and Appletalk. Chapter 38: Administering TCP/IP Networks. Chapter 39: Network Security: Firewalls and Encryption. Part VIII: Programming. Chapter 40: Shell Programming. Chapter 41: Compilers, Libraries, and Programming Tools. Chapter 42: Perl. Chapter 43: Tcl, Tk, and Expect. Chapter 44: Gawk. Part IX: Appendix. About the CD-ROMs.