Red Hat Commercial Linux is a complete operating system based on the Linux kernel. It is easy to install -- the installation script can walk you through the process in as little as 15 minutes. The installation system is very flexible -- you can install and uninstall individual program ``packages'' with a couple clicks of your mouse button. It is easy to maintain -- package installations can be verified and corrected. It is easy to administer -- a set of graphical administration tools bundled into a ``control-panel'' reduce the hassle of basic every day administration. Complete source packages are provided for everything in the system.
This book documents the installation and system administration of RHC Linux and is divided into five chapters, Quick Start, Installation and Configuration, Installation Systems, Control Panel, and System Administration.
If you are itching to install RHC Linux right away, check out the Quick Start chapter. After reading that you should be able to do a basic installation without much trouble. For new Linux users, I would suggest reading through the entire manual first to get a good understanding of the various systems and installation procedures.
I would like to thank the following people for their generous help: Donnie Barnes, Erik Troan, Jim Fridlund, Greg Galloway, Andrew Majercik, Jon Mauney, Dustin Mollo, Damien Neil, and Tony Richardson. In addition I would like to thank all our beta testers for entrusting their systems to early versions of RHC Linux and for taking the time to submit bug reports from the front. I would also like to thanks Linus Torvalds and the hundreds of developers around the world for creating, truly, one of the wonders of distributed development.
Extra special super--duper thanks go to my wife, Lisa Lee, for putting up with me and all my Linux shenanigans. 170
Red Hat Lore: Since everyone asks, I used to have a red hat that was my grandfather's old Cornell lacrosse hat from way way back. I lost it somewhere in Philadelphia a few years back. If you know where it is send it my way for a generous reward :-).
Thanks again, and welcome to the wonderful world of Linux!
Marc Ewing
5 June 1995