Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in
60 Seconds is a detailed step-by-step guide to Linux and selected
popular open source programs. It is a gentle introduction for newcomers
to Linux showing them how to perform common activities such as surfing
the web, using email, instant message with friends, writing letters,
creating spreadsheets, and enhancing digital photos.
The book explores a wide range of topics including:
Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of
insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders
that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in
Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution.
Explores:
Open Source: Competition and Evolution, covering
such topics as:
Mozilla, Commoditization of software
Dual Licensing - provide a single software product
under two different licenses
Linux still faces numerous challenges before it can
dominate the computing world, much less the world at large. One of
these challenges is the huge installed base of Windows systems. Linux
must coexist with these systems. Indeed, the challenge of
coexisting with Windows can be viewed as an opportunity: Linux can be
integrated into a Windows network, providing a reliable and low-cost
platform on which to run vital services for Windows systems, or even
serving as a workstation on an otherwise Windows-dominated
network. This book is dedicated to describing this
opportunity for Linux.
Covers topics such as:
Samba - an Open Source/Free Software suite
that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients
OpenLDAP - an implementation of the
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain
Kerberos Configuration and Use - Kerberos is a
network authentication protocol
Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you
with step-by-step instructions for building your own customized Linux
system entirely from source.
Chapters cover:
How to create a new Linux native partition and file
system
Which packages and patches need to be downloaded to
build an LFS system and how to store them on the new file system
How to Set up an appropriate working environment
Installation of packages, and how to build a toolchain
