num_pages: 760
description: Once a little-known productivity boost for personal computers Linux is now becoming a central part of computing environments everywhere. This operating system now serves as corporate hubs Web servers academic research platforms and program development systems. All along it's also managed to keep its original role as an enjoyable environment for personal computing learning system administration and programming skills and all-around hacking.This book now in its third edition has been widely recognized for years in the Linux community as the getting-started book people need. It goes into depth about configuration issues that often trip up users but are glossed over by other books.A complete UNIX-compatible operating system developed by volunteers on the Internet Linux is distributed freely in electronic form and at a low cost from many vendors. Developed first on the PC it has been ported to many other architectures and can now support such heavy-duty features as multiprocessing RAID and clustering.Software packages on Linux include the Samba file server and Apache Web server; the X Window System (X11R6); TCP/IP networking (including PPP SSH and NFS support); popular software tools such as Emacs and TeX; a complete software development environment including C C Java Perl Tcl/Tk and Python; libraries debuggers multimedia support scientific and database applications and much more. Commercial applications that run on Linux range from end-user tools like word processors and spreadsheets to mission-critical software like the Oracle Sybase Informix and IBM DB/2 database management systems.Running Linux has all the information you need to understand install and start using the Linux operating system. This includes a comprehensive installation tutorial complete information on system maintenance tools for document development and programming and guidelines for network file printer and Web site administration.
language: English
title: Running Linux
publisher: O'Reilly Media