Fedora Linux System Administration Install, Manage, and Secure Your Fedora Linux Environments
Configure your Fedora Linux environment as a professional system administration workstation with this comprehensive guide Key Features Leverage best practices and post-installation techniques to optimize your Fedora Linux workstation Learn how to optimize operating system tuning to enhance system ad...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing Ltd
[2023]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009785406606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: The Fedora Project
- Chapter 1: Linux and Open Source Projects
- A brief history of Linux
- Understanding Linux distributions
- The Fedora Project
- The Red Hat contribution path
- Fedora's mission and foundations
- Contributing to the project
- Fedora as a system administration tool
- The command-line interface
- The basics
- Guided example - releasing space in the filesystem
- Desktop environments
- Summary
- Further reading
- Part 2: Workstation Configuration
- Chapter 2: Best Practices for Installation
- Technical requirements
- Creating the boot media
- Fedora Media Writer
- Booting
- Partitioning local storage
- The first startup
- Package management
- Extra package selection
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 3: Tuning the Desktop Environment
- Technical requirements
- Initial system tuning
- Tuning the swappiness value
- Tuning the desktop experience
- GNOME Tweak Tool
- Customizing the panel and the taskbar
- The taskbar
- Making tasks easy with widgets
- Conky
- Handy applications with docks
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 4: Optimizing Storage Usage
- Technical requirements
- Understanding file formats and filesystems
- Creating a Btrfs filesystem
- Optimizing storage space size
- Space allocation check
- Using the btrfs-usage-report command
- Deep diving into Logical Volume Manager
- Differences between snapshots
- Discovering Stratis storage
- Creating a Stratis pool
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: Network and Connectivity
- Technical requirements
- Walking through the basics
- NetworkManager command-line interface (nmcli)
- Tuning wireless connectivity
- Identifying the device
- Finding the best quality network connection
- nm-connection-editor.
- What about security?
- Improving network connectivity using a VPN
- IPSec-based VPN
- OpenVPN
- Configuring a VPN client with the Control Center
- Network performance monitoring
- nmon
- bpytop
- Summary
- Further reading
- Part 3: Productivity Tools
- Chapter 6: Sandbox Applications
- Technical requirements
- Inspecting sandbox applications
- SELinux sandbox
- Diving deep into AppImage apps
- Running an AppImage
- Developing AppImages
- Examining Flatpak applications
- Using Flatpak applications
- Building Flatpak applications
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 7: Text Editors
- Technical requirements
- Text editors and the command line
- Emacs overview
- The basics
- Mastering GNU Emacs
- Nano basics
- The mighty vim
- The basics
- Mastering vim
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 8: LibreOffice Suite
- Technical requirements
- Exploring office tools on Fedora Linux
- WPS Office
- ONLYOFFICE
- Calligra
- Fonts
- LibreOffice
- Getting used to Writer and Calc
- Writer
- Calc
- Creating slides and image management
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 9: Mail Clients and Browsers
- Technical requirements
- Mailing with Evolution
- Mailing with Thunderbird
- Trusty old Firefox
- Customizing Firefox
- Expanding browsing with Google Chrome
- Summary
- Further reading
- Part 4: System Administration Tools
- Chapter 10: System Administration
- Technical requirements
- The three laws of the SysAdmin
- The KISS principle
- Knowing the basic tasks
- A little bit of Git and programming
- Bash scripting
- Git
- The basics
- Don't forget to back up
- Archiving and compression
- Version management with Git
- Automating with Ansible
- The basics
- First steps
- Never-ending study
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Performance Tuning Best Practices
- Technical requirements.
- Understanding kernel tuning
- Tuning kernel parameters
- Main tuning - CPU and memory
- Overview of monitoring tools
- Improving CPU usage
- Improving memory usage
- Don't ignore storage tuning
- Improving storage space usage
- Boosting performance with network tuning
- Analyzing metrics
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Untangling Security with SELinux
- Technical requirements
- Learning about mandatory access control
- Labeling and type enforcement
- How SELinux works
- How to troubleshoot SELinux issues
- Labeling
- SELinux needs to know
- Policy bugs
- Hack attack
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 13: Virtualization and Containers
- Technical requirements
- Virtualization with QEMU, KVM, and libvirt
- Management tools
- Streamlining the creation of virtual machines
- Using GNOME Boxes
- Discovering OCI containers with Podman
- Summary
- Further reading
- Index
- About Packt
- Other Books You May Enjoy.
