2.4 Resources
Books
[Hatch+ 02]
Hatch, Brian,
James Lee, and
George Kurtz. Hacking Linux Exposed.
We think this is the best book on Linux security.[McCarty 02]
McCarty, Bill. Learning Red Hat Linux.
Covers installing, configuring, and using Red Hat 7.2.[Nemeth+ 01]
Nemeth, Evi,
Garth Snyder,
Scott Seebass, and
Trent R. Hein. Unix System Administration Handbook.
The Bible. There is now a version of this book by a subset of the same authors specifically for Linux. We've just got our copy and haven't had a chance to look through it, but based on their previous work, we're sure it's good.[Powers+ 02]
Powers, Shelley,
Jerry Peek,
Tim O'Reilly,
Mike Loukides, and
Laurie Petrycki. Unix Power Tools. All the tricks.[Siever+ 00] Siever, Ellen (Ed.), with Jessica P. Hekman, Stephen Figgins, and Stephen Spainhour. Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, Third Edition.
A good reference for all things Linux.[Torvalds+ 01]
Torvalds, Linus, and
David Diamond. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary.[Welsh+ 99]
Welsh, Matt,
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer,
Lar Kaufman, and
Matthew Welsh. Running Linux, Third Edition. A guide to installing, configuring, and using Linux.
Web Sites
Debian: www.debian.org/
A popular and easy-to-maintain distribution.Mandrake: www.linux-mandrake.com/A variant of Red Hat that is very popular these days.Red Hat: www.redhat.com/
Where to find Red Hat Linux.Slackware: www.slackware.com/
Slackware is one of the oldest and most hard-core distributions.SuSE: www.suse.com/
The most popular Linux distribution in Europe.TurboLinux: www.turbolinux.com/
TurboLinux distribution.
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