Red Hat Linux

Section 1 Introduction: introduction to Linux; installing Red Hat Linux; interface basics. Section 2 Basic setup: system configuration; Red Hat network configuration; security configuration; setting up a local network with Red Hat. Section 3 Red Hat desktop workstation: gnome; the K Desktop environment - KDE; Window managers; the shell; the Linux file structure; shell configuration; office applications; database management systems, graphic tools, and multimedia; editors. Section 4 Red Hat network workstation: mail clients; usenet and newsreaders; FTP clients; the World Wide Web; network tools. Section 5 Red Hat servers: Internet servers; FTP servers; Red Hat Web servers - Apache, Tux, thttpd, Stronghold; domain name system; mail servers - SMTP, POP, and IMAP; news, proxy, print, and search servers. Section 6 System administration: basic system administration; administration tools; managing users; software management; file system management; devices; kernel administration; the X Window system and XFree86. Section 7 Network administration: configuring network connections; Samba, NFS, NIS, Appletalk; administering TCP/IP networks; network security - firewalls and encryption. Section 8 Red Hat development: shell programming; compilers, libraries, and programming tools; Gnome development; Perl, Tcl-Tk, Gawk, and LaTeX. Section 9 Appendix: about the CD-ROM.