Mark Sobell's books are classics because he is a great writer and a technicalmaster. Well over 300,000 Sobell Unix and Linux books have been sold.This book is a comprehensive--and remarkably well-written--tutorial oninstalling, configuring, and using Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core 2 and Red HatEnterprise Linux editions.It is broken into seven parts: Part One is an introduction to Linux and to thebook itself; Part Two covers Linux installation, including installing Linux on adual-boot Windows XP/Linux machine; Part Three focuses on the core toolsreaders need to master to be effective using Linux; Part Four covers the KDEand GNOME graphical desktops; Part Five covers key system administrationconcepts.Part Six is brand new in this edition. It covers setting up and using the mostpopular Linux servers, including Samba, Apache, sendmail, NFS, NIS, DNS,DHCP, and FTP; Part Seven is an introduction to programming on Linux. Itcontains Sobell's masterful tutorial on Linux shell programming.Reference the comparison guide to see how Sobell stacks up in the market.