Red Hat Linux Network and System Administration

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LINUX IS A MULTIUSER, multitasking operating system from the ground up, and in this regard the system administrator has flexibility - and responsibility - far beyond those of other operating systems. Now, Red Hat has employed innovations that extend these duties even for the experienced Linux user. In this chapter, we look at those requirements.

The Linux System Administrator
Linux involves much more than merely sitting down and turning on the machine. Often you hear talk of a "steep learning curve," but that discouraging phrase can be misleading. Instead, Linux is quite different from the most popular commercial operating systems in a number of ways, and while it is no more difficult to learn than other operating systems, it is likely to seem very strange even to the experienced administrator of some other system. In addition, the sophistication of a number of parts of the Red Hat Linux distribution has increased by an order of magnitude, so even an experienced Linux administrator is likely to find much that is new and unfamiliar. Fortunately, there are new tools designed to make system administration easier than it has ever been before.