Linux Unleashed

by Parker, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780672313721
• ISBN10: 0672313723
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Sams

Summary

Geared towards power users and programmers, this book gives the more experienced reader complete coverage of networking, administration and programming tools. CD-ROM includes the latest version of Red Hat Linux, a complete distribution of Linux with Xfree86, Internet applications, programming languages, networking tools, and Linux games.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
PART I INTRODUCTION	3	(98)
1 Introduction to Linux	5	(20)
2 Types of Linux	25	(14)
3 Installing Linux	39	(28)
4 Using LILO	67	(22)
5 Wrapping Up the Installation	89	(12)
PART II GETTING TO KNOW LINUX	101	(198)
6 Getting Started	103	(22)
7 Basic Linux Commands	125	(24)
8 Using the File System	149	(24)
9 File and Directory Permissions	173	(12)
10 GNU Project Utilities	185	(18)
11 bash	203	(22)
12 pdksh	225	(18)
13 tcsh	243	(18)
14 Shell Programming	261	(24)
15 FTP and Telnet	285	(14)
PART III EDITING, TYPESETTING, AND MORE	299	(88)
16 Text Editors: vi and emacs	301	(18)
17 groff	319	(12)
18 geqn and gtbl	331	(14)
19 TeX and LaTeX	345	(18)
20 Printing	363	(8)
21 Multimedia Linux	371	(16)
PART IV GUIs	387	(50)
22 Installing and Configuring XFree86	389	(26)
23 Wabi	415	(8)
24 Ghostscript and Ghostview	423	(14)
PART V LINUX FOR PROGRAMMERS	437	(130)
25 gawk	439	(24)
26 Programming in C	463	(22)
27 Programming in C++	485	(18)
28 Perl	503	(20)
29 Introduction to Tcl and Tk	523	(14)
30 Other Compilers	537	(6)
31 Smalltalk/X	543	(24)
PART VI LINUX FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS	567	(206)
32 System Administration Basics	569	(14)
33 Devices	583	(26)
34 Processes	609	(10)
35 Users and Logins	619	(18)
36 SCSI Device Support	637	(8)
37 Networking	645	(20)
38 SLIP and PPP	665	(16)
39 UUCP	681	(20)
40 Configuring Linux for Mail	701	(18)
41 Configuring Linux for News	719	(10)
42 Network Security	729	(8)
43 NFS	737	(8)
44 NIS and YP	745	(8)
45 Backups	753	(10)
46 Cron and at	763	(10)
PART VII SETTING UP AN INTERNET SITE	773	(120)
47 Setting up an Internet Site	775	(6)
48 Setting up an FTP and Anonymous FTP Site	781	(16)
49 Configuring a WAIS Site	797	(16)
50 Setting up a Gopher Service	813	(20)
51 Configuring a WWW Site	833	(16)
52 CGI Scripts	849	(8)
53 HTML Programming Basics	857	(22)
54 Java and JavaScript Basics	879	(8)
55 Creating a Solid Web Site	887	(6)
PART VIII ADVANCED PROGRAMMING TOPICS	893	(128)
56 Source Code Control	895	(20)
57 Working with the Kernel	915	(12)
58 Writing Device Drivers	927	(12)
59 The Wine Project	939	(16)
60 HylaFAX	955	(10)
61 Games	965	(20)
62 Adabas-D and other Databases	985	(14)
63 StarOffice	999	(8)
64 Lone Star Software's Lone-Tar	1007	(14)
PART IX APPENDIXES	1021	(42)
A Linux FTP Sites and Newsgroups	1023	(14)
B Commercial Vendors for Linux	1037	(6)
C The Linux Documentation Project	1043	(2)
D The GNU General Public License	1045	(10)
E Copyright Information	1055	(6)
F What's on the CD-ROM?	1061	(2)
INDEX	1063