The best, most comprehensive coverage of the leading Linux distribution on the market.

Continuing with the tradition of offering the best and most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market, Red Hat Linux 9 Unleashed includes new and additional material based on the latest release of Red Hat Linux.

Incorporating an advanced approach to presenting information about Red Hat Linux, the book aims to provide the best and latest information intermediate to advanced Red Hat users need to know about installation, configuration, system administration, server operations, and security.

All chapters concentrate on Red Hat Linux software packages, including up to date coverage of:

• The architecture of the Linux kernel 2.4.18
• USB
• KDE
• GNOME 1.4
• Broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls
• The XFree86 4.2 architecture and features
• Disk tuning
• GCC 2.2
• Perl 5.6.1
• Python 2
• Printing services (CUPS)
• Security