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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Step By Step Guide.pdf
Download step by step tutorial on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a large scale operating system developed by Red Hat Enterprise.
Linux Filesystem Hierarchy.pdf
This document outlines the set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under the Linux operating system according to those of the FSSTND v2.3 final (January 29, 2004) and also its actual implementation on an arbitrary system. It is meant to be accessible to all members of the Linux community, be distribution independent and is intended to discuss the impact of the FSSTND and how it has managed to increase the efficiency of support interoperability of applications, system administration tools, development tools, and scripts as well as greater uniformity of documentation for these systems.
Securing and Optimizing Linux: RedHat Edition.pdf
Taken from Some good reasons to use Linux: There are no royalty or licensing fees for using Linux, and the source code can be modified to fit your needs. The results can be sold for profit, but original authors retain copyright and you must provide the source to your modifications.
Because it comes with source code to the kernel, it is quite portable. Linux runs on more CPUs and platforms than any other computer operating system.
The recent direction of the software and hardware industry is to push consumers to purchase faster computers with more system memory and hard drive storage. Linux systems are not affected by those industries’ orientation because of it capacity to run on any kind of computers, even aging x486-based computers with limited amounts of RAM.
Linux is a true multi-tasking operating system similar to his brother UNIX. It uses sophisticated, state-of-the-art memory management to control all system processes. That means that if a program crashes you can kill it and continue working with confidence.
Another benefit is that Linux is practically immunized against all kinds of viruses that we find in other operating systems. To date we have found only two viruses that were effective on Linux systems.
Linux Administration Made Easy.pdf
Taken from What is Linux?: Linux is a true 32?bit operating system that runs on a variety of different platforms, including Intel, Sparc, Alpha, and Power?PC (on some of these platforms, such as Alpha, Linux is actually 64?bit). There are other ports available as well, but I do not have any experience with them.
Linux was first developed back in the early 1990s, by a young Finnish then?university student named Linus Torvalds. Linus had a “state?of?the?art” 386 box at home and decided to write an alternative to the 286?based Minix system (a small unix?like implementation primarily used in operating systems classes), to take advantage of the extra instruction set available on the then?new chip, and began to write a small bare?bones kernel.
Eventually he announced his little project in the USENET group comp.os.minix, asking for interested parties to take a look and perhaps contribute to the project. The results have been phenomenal!
The interesting thing about Linux is, it is completely free! Linus decided to adopt the GNU Copyleft license of the Free Software Foundation, which means that the code is protected by a copyright ?? but protected in that it must always be available to others.
Pocket Linux Guide.pdf
This guide is intended for intermediate to advanced Linux users. It is not intentionally obscure, but certain assumptions about the readers skill level are made. Success with this guide depends in part on being able to perform the following tasks:
Use basic shell commands
Reference man and info pages
Build a custom Linux kernel
Compile source code using make and related tools