Foundations of CentOS Linux: Enterprise Linux On the Cheap [Paperback]

You need to maintain clients, servers and networks, while acquiring new skills. Foundations of Cent OS Linux: Enterprise Linux On the Cheap covers a free, unencumbered Linux operating system within the Red Hat lineage, but it does not assume you have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux license. Now you can learn CentOS Linux, the most powerful and popular of all Red Hat clones, keep maintaining your network at work, and become an Red Hat Certified Engineer, all just for the cost of this book.

• Introduces CentOS Linux and Fedora clients as equals to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Sets up CentOS as a secure, highperformance web services back end
• Prepares you for the RHCE examination, but does not assume an RHEL installation

This book introduces CentOS servers and discusses how to add and manage Fedora clients. It follows RHEL curriculum closely enough to be used as an RHCE exam preparation text. It also covers many system administration tasks and includes concrete examples.

Introduction Community Enterprise Operating System, or CentOS, is an enterprise Linux distribution. It was developed by the CentOS Project community using the source code of the commercial Linux distribution from Redhat, the Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). They created CentOS to have a free alternative to RHEL and to have a Linux distribution that's as stable as its commercial counterpart and can keep up with the requirements of the enterprise. Using CentOS is a good choice to learn Linux not only for its RHEL roots but also for its compatibility, quality, and support. CentOS is binary compatible with the RHEL because it was built using the source code of RHEL. Also, the developers made sure to adhere to the redistribution rules of RHEL when they built CentOS so it would be a truly free alternative to the original. CentOS is continuously being developed by its core developerlÓ3