Mastering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

by Michael Jang

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is an operating system for open source computing, it creates a reliable, secure, high performance platform designed for commercial environments. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782143474
• ISBN13: 9780782143478
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 942 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.5" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

perhaps a reference text?

This may be more of a reference book than a text on its subject. The breadth of topics is commendable and certainly encompasses much of what you as a sysadmin will probably want to do on a linux machine or cluster. Jang's choice of the Red Hat linux is good; the most common implementation of linux around. On such a system, the first thing anyone sees after logging in is the desktop. He describes the two choices evenhandedly, KDE and Gnome. Functionally, there is little truly different between them. So it may just come down to your personal preferences as to which you adopt. He goes carefully into describing network security. Pointing out that linux and open source gives you very powerful free tools to defend against intrusion.