List of Figures

Chapter 2: Getting Ready for Red Hat Linux

Figure 2-1: The Properties window showing an NTSF partition.

Figure 2-2: Defragmenting a FAT partition.

Figure 2-3: Defragmenting an NTFS partition.

Figure 2-4: The initial Partition-Magic screen.

Figure 2-5: The Where to Create window.

Figure 2-6: The Partition Properties window.

Figure 2-7: The Confirm Choices dialog box.

Chapter 3: Ready, Set, Install!

Figure 3-1: The Disk Setup window displays the partitions to be created.

Figure 3-2: The Boot Loader Configuration window.

Figure 3-3: The Network Configuration window.

Figure 3-4: The installing Packages window.

Chapter 4: Getting Red Hat Linux

Figure 4-1: The Linux file system resembles an upside down tree.

Figure 4-2: A GNOME Terminal session.

Figure 4-3: The monitor Advanced Settings dialog box.

Figure 4-4: The video card Advanced Settings dialog box.

Figure 4-5: The Create New User dialog box.

Chapter 5: Dial-Up Modems Still Get the Job Done

Figure 5-1: The Select Modem dialog box.

Figure 5-2: Configuring your dial-up IP settings.

Chapter 6: Broadband Rocks!

Figure 6-1: The Configure Network Settings window.

Chapter 7: Connect Locally, Communicate Globally: Connecting to a LAN

Figure 7-1: The Devices tab in the Network Configuration window.

Figure 7-2: Entering your static (non-DHCP) IP address settings.

Figure 7-3: The Configure Wireless Connection dialog box.

Figure 7-4: A sample NDS configuration.

Chapter 9: Gnowing GNOME

Figure 9-1: The GNOME desktop.

Figure 9-2: Mozilla minimized inside GNOME.

Figure 9-3: The MPlayer icon is born.

Figure 9-4: The MPlayer launcher applet icon on the GNOME Panel.

Figure 9-5: A new panel with a clock and kooky eyes.

Figure 9-6: The Preferences window.

Figure 9-7: The File Types and Programs dialog box.

Chapter 10: Gnowing More Applications

Figure 10-1: The Nautilus File Manager.

Figure 10-2: The Identity dialog box.

Figure 10-3: The Receiving Mail dialog box.

Figure 10-4: The Sending Nail dialog box.

Figure 10-5: The Cradle Settings dialog box.

Chapter 11: Surfin’ the Net and Groovin’ to Tunes

Figure 11-1: The Plug-in window shows the Flash plug-in.

Figure 11-2: A sample Audio Devices window.

Figure 11-3: The Grip window shows a CD’s tracks.

Figure 11-4: The GNOME Toaster window.

Chapter 12: Live from the Net

Figure 12-1: The XMMS window.

Figure 12-2: Using the Edit Type window.

Chapter 13: Going to the Office

Figure 13-1: The OpenOffice word processor window.

Figure 13-2: The OpenOffice spreadsheet window.

Figure 13-3: The OpenOffice Impress window.

Figure 13-4: The OpenOffice graphics program, Draw.

Chapter 14: Days of Wine and Applications

Figure 14-1: The Wine Notepad utility.

Figure 14-2: The WinPac2 game introduction window.

Figure 14-3: The CrossOver Plugin Setup window.

Figure 14-4: Selecting plug-ins to download and install.

Figure 14-5: The QuickTime 6 Setup dialog box.

Figure 14-6: Playing with the QuickTime Player

Chapter 15: Building Your Own, Private Network

Figure 15-1: A simple private network.

Figure 15-2: Veracruz with an Internet connection.

Figure 15-3: The gedit editor opens the sysctl.conf file.

Chapter 16: Creating Basic Linux Network Services

Figure 16-1: Your first web server!

Figure 16-2: The SWAT configuration system.

Figure 16-3: Configuring a new share.

Figure 16-4: The Queue Name window.

Chapter 17: Securing Your Future

Figure 17-1: The Red Hat Network Configuration window.

Figure 17-2: The Channels window.

Chapter 18: Bringing In the Red Hat Linux Repair Man

Figure 18-1: The fault tree.

Chapter 19: Building a Streaming Audio Server

Figure 19-1: The icecast. xml file.