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If you count yourself among the many who are discovering Red Hat Linux for the first time, this book is for you! Inside, you will find valuable tips and tricks which can help you get acquainted with your desktop environment. Concentrating on tasks in GNOME and KDE, you will see how to navigate through your system, how to manage files and directories and how to make some of the power of Red Hat Linux work for you. If you are most familiar with a Windows environment, you will find the DOS-to-Linux commands in Appendix C, DOS to Linux Cheat Sheet (as well as the tips on the enclosed cheat sheet in the boxed set of Red Hat Linux) to be useful guides, so you can start looking around right away....

The Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide contains useful information about your Red Hat Linux system. In fact, much of the information you'll find within can be extended to just about any Linux distribution. From fundamental concepts such as using RPM and Gnome-RPM to the finer points of using disk partitioning, we hope you'll find this book to be a valuable resource. This guide is for you if you want to learn a bit more about how your Red Hat Linux system works. Among the featured entries, you'll learn about: Partitioning concepts - Both an introduction to disk partitions and the strategies behind "finding a home" for more than one operating system on hard drives; Text mode installation -- Despite Red Hat Linxu's GUI installation, you ma...