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CentOS is just like Red Hat, but without the price tag and with the virtuous license. When belts have to be tightened, we want to read about an OS with all the features of a commercial Linux variety, but without the pain. The Definitive Guide to CentOS is the first definitive reference for CentOS and focuses on CentOS alone, the workhorse Linux distribution, that does the heavy lifting in small and medium-size enterprises without drawing too much attention to itself.

  • Provides tutorial and hands-on learning but is also designed to be used as a reference
  • Bases all examples on real-world tasks that readers are likely to perform
  • Serves up hard-won examples and hints and tips from the author's experiences of CentOS in production
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    July 9, 2009
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Hailing from the U.K., Peter Membrey has worked for Red Hat, holds a RHCE certification, and worked and taught at a number of educational institutions since the beginning of his career. He knows what Linux users like and need, and hopes that CentOS will get the kudos it deserves. He lives in Hong Kong and is teaching and consulting on all matters to do with Linux Enterprise networking, while studying for his master's degree.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (July 9, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 374 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1430219300
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1430219309
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.48 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.01 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches
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Peter Membrey is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered IT Professional and a Chartered Engineer with nearly a quarter of a century in the field. He has a doctorate in engineering and a masters degree in IT specialising in Information Security. He's co-authored over a dozen books, a number of research papers on a variety of topics and has recently been awarded the Distinguished Contributor award by the IEEE Computer Society.

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Paul Gilmore
5.0 out of 5 stars An informative and well-presented book. Very much recommendable.
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2012
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Several months ago I was asked to evaluate a LAMP platform ( Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP ) for an in-house intranet application. I choose CentOS and this book to begin. So how did I get on.

Getting Started with CentOS ...

This is the first section of the book and spans 4 chapters. It answers the questions, why choose CentOS, installation and where to download the files from, a few basic commands and how to patch your fresh install with the latest updates using the YUM tool. YUM stands for ' Yellow Dog Updater, Modified '; beautiful, I was loving it already. The installation assumes CentOS 5.2; the present release is 6.2 ( as of January 2012 ) which I installed. In the space of a few days I had a fresh CentOS box up and running. The book took me through the steps one at a time. No problems; could it be this simple !.

Going into Production ...

The second section of the book. It spans 6 chapters and introduces ( keyword ) Apache web server ( Yes, LAMP platform here we go ), DNS, DHCP, Mail, Samba and Virtual Private Networks .... Ahh no database chapter. Reality bites !. Nevertheless, being a complete novice only some weeks previous, I now had grasped enough bite sized knowledge and terminology to explore the CentOS website, documentation and forums and other web resources to locate the remaining snippets of information I required to install and configure MySQL. The book now moves from a step by step, do as I say approach to become more of a guide to the features ( the bells and whistles if you like ) of CentOS. It uses Apache, Samba, DNS etc. etc. configuration files to nudge you in the right direction but more in-depth knowledge will be required to move from installation, beyond configuration and finally to release.

The last section ( Enterprise Features ) presents Core Builds, High Availability and Network Monitoring. Suffice to say it would be possible to devote books to these areas; this book introduces only the basics.

I would recommend the book as a good purchase for those completely new to CentOS; indeed Linux in general would perhaps be more apt. The areas I found the book to lack in would be security configuration, essential CentOS/Linux commands to gather system information, status of services, maintenance, file creation etc. etc.. All in all though I loved the book and would certainly recommend it.
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Robin T. Wernick
4.0 out of 5 stars CentOS is still a viable Linux server ant this is a good place to find the setup
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2019
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This a good OS to use for an inexpensive network gateway or a garage server. You don't need the latest Linux distribution to serve most of your needs and there is a version 7 currently available. This book give a reasonable introduction to configuring the operating system for use and some background on it's Red Hat roots. You can't beat the price, either.
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Bruce S. Gruenbaum
2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing definitive about it
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2010
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I already own Wale Soyinka's book "Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide" and bought this assuming that there would be more CentOS-specific information in it that could help with things like NIS, LDAP, sendmail configuration, etc. While it covers some of its subjects reasonably well, it stops well short of the goal of being the definitive guide to CentOS. Beginner's guide, maybe, but there is very little that makes it definitive.

The first third of the book is dedicated to installation, yum, and Apache configuration. This information is not even as good as the existing information on the CentOS How-To pages on their web site.

The section that I found useful was on setting up virtual private networks. The book does a reasonable job of explaining this, but I find it hard to understand what sets this apart from any other Linux installation.

Don't get me wrong, the book does have value, but if you are looking for the definitive guide to setting up and configuring your CentOS-specific installation, this is definitely not the book for you.
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Zapper45
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners to intermediates.
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2009
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I appreciate the detail in which this book explains concepts and why things work they way they do in Linux. Although I have been working with CentOS for nearly two years now professionally, this book gave my weak foundation of knowledge a lot of improvement. I now understand why things are, I don't have to accept the line, "Well, that's just the way Linux works." The step-by-step instructions on how to get commonly used services up and running are right on target and very useful.

I highly recommend this book for individuals who want to learn an enterprise Linux OS, and those who already use CentOS but don't have a solid foundation of knowledge. This book is not for advanced users of Linux, you'll only be bored. But for someone like me, a beginner/intermediate, this book was very useful and a pleasure to read.

Also, this is one of the very few books this year that I didn't find any incorrect spellings or bad grammar. Thank you!
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WayneBob
1.0 out of 5 stars Lame Book
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2011
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Way too much of this book is devoted to explaining the most elementary concepts of Unix operating systems. eg: how to use command line functions like "cd", "pwd", and "ls". Chances are, if you're installing or using CentOS -- a sever class version of Linux and clone of RedHat, you learned this stuff a LONG time ago. It's like buying a college level text, and having half of it wasted on refreshing the stuff you learned in grade school. Thus, this book is pretty much useless to anyone using CentOS.

The whole point of CentOS is to be compatible and 99.9% identical with RedHat Linux for commercial applications; so assuming you already know your way around Linux / Unix, I'd suggest you seek out a text specific to RedHat, and not waste your money on this.

If you are new to unix/Linux, Congrats! But CentOS is probably NOT the best distro to be learning on. Try Ubuntu or maybe SUSE w. X' desktop.
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James
3.0 out of 5 stars Not definitive, introductory
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2011
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This is an easy to understand book, like the OS itself. However, it's not even close to definitive. It's only an introduction and not very useful, by itself.
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Brian Buckman
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not quite what it says on the tin
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2009
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It is a very useful book, but it is not quite what I was looking for - although it could be exactly right for you.

I should explain that I am not a programmer, I am a telephone engineer, and have been working with Linux based systems on and off for several years. I have therefore purchased Linux books before. I have also become fairly proficient at working my way round mail servers, Apache, DNS and the like. I am now getting very involved with Centos so was looking for a book that would explain the subtle ways in which Centos differs from the other distros. This book does not really do that.

It is probably an ideal book for somebody who has only very basic ideas about Linux but wants to get stuck in and build their own systems, websites, etc. It is perfect for that. But, if like me, you can muddle your way around Linux already then it doesn't help an awful lot.
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Redundancy
2.0 out of 5 stars Short, not very definitive
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2013
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As noted in some other reviews, this book is very short. It does give you an installation guide to various common services like Apache, but I don't think it does a very good job of explaining the details of the differences between Centos and other distributions (it does cover some high level differences).

I had been hoping for a guide that would give me all the tools that I need to set up, configure, secure, debug and run CentOS in production, and it doesn't seem to be that.
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Riff
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Useful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2013
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This covers not just CentOS but many linux basics - and is useful even if using other distros, especially if they are from the Red Hat deviation. It's a useful reference and proved to be much more useful than some accredited online Linux courses.
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