Special Edition Using Red Hat Linuxfocuses on the fastest growing operating system available, Linux. This book provides you with everything you need to know to become an accomplished Linux user. Covered topics include the following installing, running, and removing packages, troubleshooting, dual-booting Windows and Linux, configuring various DNS and email services, managing user accounts, files, and directories, configuring the GUI and the kernel, shell programming and scripting, building an Internet server, and hardware and multimedia configuration.

Alan Simpson has written 72 books over the last 15 years including Windows 95 Bible, The Official Netscape Composer Book, Mastering Microsoft Access, Mastering WordPerfect 8, which was voted the best WordPerfect book of 1998 by amazon.com, and Windows 98 Bible, which was voted one of the top ten computer books of 1998 by amazon.com. Before becoming a full-time author, Alan was a freelance programmer and consultant, and taught introductory and advanced computer courses at San Diego State University and the University of California Extension program. Alan also runs the popular Web site coolnerds.com.