[ale] Recommendation for RHEL-specific Book

[Jeff Lightner]

I have an old "Red Hat Linux Bible" but it was for RHEL3.

Looking for updates just now I didn't find that but did find:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470413395/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_
p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0764539388&pf_r
d_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1FMKZTSP7PCH1FF9NXN3

At first glance it appears to be a Fedora 10 book but it does talk about
Fedora 10 and RHEL in the table of contents and has a RHEL5 specific
appendix.  Fedora and RHEL are not the same animal though much of what
starts in the one ends up in the other.

But you can get a lot from RedHat's online manual for RHEL5 as Jim
mentioned.  You can find that and the RHEL4 manual at:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/



-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:43 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Recommendation for RHEL-specific Book

My best source of RHEL info is from RedHats own documentation library
and their knowlegebase. Most of the deadtree books I've seen for RHEL
are focused on prepping for the RHCE exams.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Brian Pitts<brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Is there a book that takes a similar approach to covering Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux that Martin Krafft's "The Debian System: Concepts and
> Techniques" takes to explaining Debian? In other words, not another
> general linux book but one that explains in detail what makes Red Hat
> Red Hat?
>
> To quote from a two reviews of the Debian book:
>
> I liked this book because, finally, an author has had the presence of
> mind to write a book that did not regurgitate Unix commands like 'ls'
> and 'vi' for the gazillionth time. The focus is on debian, and only on
> those parts that make debian unique -- the culture of the "debian
> project", the notoriety for its alleged difficulty of installation
> (which I have not experienced), the speed and timeliness of its
releases
> (not!), and homage to that supreme program -- apt-get and its close
> relatives.
>
> Prospective TDS readers should understand that this book is unlike any
I
> have read on operating systems. Readers will not have to skip pages on
> setting up Apache or configuring BIND, thankfully! Instead, TDS covers
> core system administration subjects to a degree I have not seen
> elsewhere. I do not mean that TDS delves into kernel structures in the
> way that McKusick and Neville-Neil's "The Design and Implementation of
> the FreeBSD Operating System" does. Rather, Krafft takes readers on an
> inside tour of the how and why of Debian. Rather than just explaining
a
> technique or tool, the author discusses the overall problem, possible
> ways to approach it, and Debian's solutions. He presents pros and cons
> for each, and then demonstrates usage with command line syntax and
> sample output.
>
> This is the type of material I'd like to read about RHEL. Is it out
there?
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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