Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I: Getting Started -- Chapter 1: Starting with Linux -- Understanding What Linux Is -- Understanding How Linux Differs from Other Operating Systems -- Exploring Linux History -- Free-flowing UNIX culture at Bell Labs -- Commercialized UNIX -- Berkeley Software Distribution arrives -- UNIX Laboratory and commercialization -- GNU transitions UNIX to freedom -- BSD loses some steam -- Linus builds the missing piece -- OSI open source definition -- Understanding How Linux Distributions Emerged -- Choosing a Red Hat distribution -- Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux -- Using Fedora -- Choosing Ubuntu or another Debian distribution -- Finding Professional Opportunities with Linux Today -- Understanding how companies make money with Linux -- Becoming Red Hat certified -- RHCSA topics -- RHCE topics -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Creating the Perfect Linux Desktop -- Understanding Linux Desktop Technology -- Starting with the Fedora GNOME Desktop Live image -- Using the GNOME 3 Desktop -- After the computer boots up -- Navigating with the mouse -- Navigating with the keyboard -- Setting up the GNOME 3 desktop -- Extending the GNOME 3 desktop -- Using GNOME shell extensions -- Using the GNOME Tweak Tool -- Starting with desktop applications -- Managing files and folders with Nautilus -- Installing and managing additional software -- Playing music with Rhythmbox -- Stopping the GNOME 3 desktop -- Using the GNOME 2 Desktop -- Using the Metacity window manager -- Changing GNOME's appearance -- Using the GNOME panels -- Using the Applications and System menus -- Adding an applet -- Adding another panel -- Adding an application launcher -- Adding a drawer -- Changing panel properties -- Adding 3D effects with AIGLX -- Summary -- Exercises.

Part II: Becoming a Linux Power User -- Chapter 3: Using the Shell -- About Shells and Terminal Windows -- Using the shell prompt -- Using a terminal window -- Using virtual consoles -- Choosing Your Shell -- Running Commands -- Understanding command syntax -- Locating commands -- Recalling Commands Using Command History -- Command-line editing -- Command-line completion -- Command-line recall -- Connecting and Expanding Commands -- Piping between commands -- Sequential commands -- Background commands -- Expanding commands -- Expanding arithmetic expressions -- Expanding variables -- Using Shell Variables -- Creating and using aliases -- Exiting the shell -- Creating Your Shell Environment -- Configuring your shell -- Setting your prompt -- Adding environment variables -- Getting Information about Commands -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: Moving around the Filesystem -- Using Basic Filesystem Commands -- Using Metacharacters and Operators -- Using file-matching metacharacters -- Using file-redirection metacharacters -- Using brace expansion characters -- Listing Files and Directories -- Understanding File Permissions and Ownership -- Changing permissions with chmod (numbers) -- Changing permissions with chmod (letters) -- Setting default file permission with umask -- Changing file ownership -- Moving, Copying, and Removing Files -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: Working with Text Files -- Editing Files with vim and vi -- Starting with vi -- Adding text -- Moving around in the text -- Deleting, copying, and changing text -- Pasting (putting) text -- Repeating commands -- Exiting vi -- Skipping around in the file -- Searching for text -- Using ex mode -- Learning more about vi and vim -- Finding Files -- Using locate to find files by name -- Searching for files with find -- Finding files by name.

Finding files by size -- Finding files by user -- Finding files by permission -- Finding files by date and time -- Using 'not' and 'or' when finding files -- Finding files and executing commands -- Searching in files with grep -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 6: Managing Running Processes -- Understanding Processes -- Listing Processes -- Listing processes with ps -- Listing and changing processes with top -- Listing processes with System Monitor -- Managing Background and Foreground Processes -- Starting background processes -- Using foreground and background commands -- Killing and Renicing Processes -- Killing processes with kill and killall -- Using kill to signal processes by PID -- Using killall to signal processes by name -- Setting processor priority with nice and renice -- Limiting Processes with cgroups -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 7: Writing Simple Shell Scripts -- Understanding Shell Scripts -- Executing and debugging shell scripts -- Understanding shell variables -- Special shell positional parameters -- Reading in parameters -- Parameter expansion in bash -- Performing arithmetic in shell scripts -- Using programming constructs in shell scripts -- The "if…then" statements -- The case command -- The "for…do" loop -- The "while…do" and "until…do" loops -- Trying some useful text manipulation programs -- The general regular expression parser -- Remove sections of lines of text (cut) -- Translate or delete characters (tr) -- The stream editor (sed) -- Using simple shell scripts -- Telephone list -- Backup script -- Summary -- Exercises -- Part III: Becoming a Linux System Administrator -- Chapter 8: Learning System Administration -- Understanding System Administration -- Using Graphical Administration Tools -- Using system-config-* tools -- Using browser-based admin tools.

Using the root user account -- Becoming root from the shell (su command) -- Allowing administrative access via the GUI -- Gaining administrative access with sudo -- Exploring Administrative Commands, Configuration Files, and Log Files -- Administrative commands -- Administrative configuration files -- Administrative log files and systemd journal -- Using journalctl to view the systemd journal -- Managing log messages with rsyslogd -- Using Other Administrative Accounts -- Checking and Configuring Hardware -- Checking your hardware -- Managing removable hardware -- Working with loadable modules -- Listing loaded modules -- Loading modules -- Removing modules -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 9: Installing Linux -- Choosing a Computer -- Installing Fedora from Live media -- Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux from Installation Media -- Understanding Cloud-Based Installations -- Installing Linux in the Enterprise -- Exploring Common Installation Topics -- Upgrading or installing from scratch -- Dual booting -- Installing Linux to run virtually -- Using installation boot options -- Boot options for disabling features -- Boot options for video problems -- Boot options for special installation types -- Boot options for kickstarts and remote repositories -- Miscellaneous boot options -- Using specialized storage -- Partitioning hard drives -- Understanding different partition types -- Reasons for different partitioning schemes -- Tips for creating partitions -- Using the GRUB boot loader -- Using GRUB Legacy (version 1) -- Using GRUB 2 -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 10: Getting and Managing Software -- Managing Software on the Desktop -- Going Beyond the Software Window -- Understanding Linux RPM and DEB Software Packaging -- Understanding DEB packaging -- Understanding RPM packaging -- What is in an RPM?.

Where do RPMs come from? -- Installing RPMs -- Managing RPM Packages with YUM -- Understanding how yum works -- 1. Checking /etc/yum.conf -- 2. Checking /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date (RHEL only) -- 3. Checking /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files -- 4. Downloading RPM packages and metadata from a YUM repository -- 5. RPM packages installed to Linux file system -- 6. Store YUM repository metadata to local RPM database -- Using YUM with third-party software repositories -- Managing software with the YUM command -- Searching for packages -- Installing and removing packages -- Updating packages -- Updating groups of packages -- Maintaining your RPM package database and cache -- Downloading RPMs from a yum repository -- Installing, Querying, and Verifying Software with the rpm Command -- Installing and removing packages with rpm -- Querying rpm information -- Verifying RPM packages -- Managing Software in the Enterprise -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 11: Managing User Accounts -- Creating User Accounts -- Adding users with useradd -- Setting user defaults -- Modifying users with usermod -- Deleting users with userdel -- Understanding Group Accounts -- Using group accounts -- Creating group accounts -- Managing Users in the Enterprise -- Setting permissions with Access Control Lists -- Setting ACLs with setfacl -- Setting default ACLs -- Enabling ACLs -- Adding directories for users to collaborate -- Creating group collaboration directories (set GID bit) -- Creating restricted deletion directories (sticky bit) -- Centralizing User Accounts -- Using the Users window -- Using the Authentication Configuration window -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 12: Managing Disks and Filesystems -- Understanding Disk Storage -- Partitioning Hard Disks -- Understanding partition tables -- Viewing disk partitions.

Creating a single-partition disk.