How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know

There are lots of books about how to administer and secure Linux, but nothing that really teaches you how the Linux operating system works. This book shows how the Linux system functions so that system administrators can come up with their own solutions to problems. Readers will find coverage of dev [...]
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There are lots of books about how to administer and secure Linux, but nothing that really teaches you how the Linux operating system works. This book shows how the Linux system functions so that system administrators can come up with their own solutions to problems. Readers will find coverage of devices, disks, filesystems, and the kernel, how Linux boots, essential system files, servers, and utilities, network configuration and services, shell scripts, development tools, compiling software from source code, maintaining the kernel, configuring and manipulating peripherals, printing, backups, sharing files with samba, network file transfer, buying hardware for linux, and user environments.