Continuing with the tradition of offering comprehensive coverage of most of Red Hat Linux in the market, Fedora 7 Unleashed includes and additional new material based on the latest release of Red Hat Linux Core Fedora distribution. Fedora 7 Unleashed thoroughly covers all the software package's Fedora, including up- to-date material of new applications, Web development, peripherals, and programming languages. It also includes updated discussion of the architecture of the Linux kernel, USB, KDE, GNOME, broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls, disk tuning, GCC, Perl, Python, printing services (CUPS), wireless support, international support, java program support (Eclipse), and security. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part I Installation and Configuration 1 Installing Fedora. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 Fedora Quick Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3 Working with GNOME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4 Command Line Quickstart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Part II Desktop Fedora 5 On the Internet. 111 6 Productivity Applications. . 129 7 Multimedia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 8 Printing with Fedora. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 9 Games. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Part III System Administration 10 Managing Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 11 Automating Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 12 System-Monitoring Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 13 Backing Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 14 Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 15 Remote Access with SSH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 16 Xen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Part IV Fedora As a Server 17 Apache Web Server Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 18 Service Provider Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 19 File and Print. . 415 20 Remote File Serving with FTP. . 445 21 Handling Electronic Mail. . 479 ARGIN: 0px "align = text-align left = "left"> 22 Setting the Proxy Server 501. 23 Managing DNS. . 511 24 LDAP. . 551 00_0672329425_FM.qxd 24/07/2007 9:32 Page iii Part V Programming Linux 25 Using Perl. . 563 26 Working with Python. . 579 27 Writing PHP Scripts. 599 28 C / C + + Programming Tools for Fedora. 629 29 Mono. . 641 Section VI Fedora Housekeeping 30 Securing Your Machines. 655 31 Performance Tuning. . 669 Command Line Masterclass 32. 683 33 Writing and Executing Script Shell. 711 34 Advanced Software Management. 737 35 Managing the File System. . 757 36 Kernel and Module Management. 787 Part VII Appendix A History of Red Hat and Fedora. . 813 B Installation Resources. 821 C Fedora and Linux Internet Resources.