Richard Petersen (Berkeley, CA) has an MLIS in library and information studies and teaches UNIX and C/C++ courses at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Linux: The Complete Reference (all four editions), Linux Programming: A Beginner's Guide, and many other titles.

Section 1: Introduction; Ch. 1: Introduction to Linux; Ch. 2: Installing Red Hat Linux; Ch. 3: Interface Basics; Section 2: Basic Setup; Ch. 4: System Configuration; Ch. 5: Red Hat Network Configuration; Ch. 6: Security Configuration; Ch. 7: Setting up a Local Network with Red Hat; Section 3: Red Hat Desktop Workstation; Ch. 8: Gnome; Ch. 9: The K Desktop Environment: KDE; Ch. 10: Window Managers; Ch. 11: The Shell; Ch. 12: The Linux File Structure; Ch. 13: Shell Configuration; Ch. 14: Office Applications; Ch. 15: Database Management Systems, Graphic Tools, and Multimedia; Ch. 16: Editors; Section 4: Red Hat Network Workstation; Ch. 17: Mail Clients; Ch. 18: Usenet and Newsreaders; Ch. 19: FTP Clients; Ch. 20: The World Wide Web; Ch. 21: Network Tools; Section 5: Red Hat Servers; Ch. 22: Internet Servers; Ch. 23: FTP Servers; Ch. 24: Red Hat Web Servers; Apache, Tux, thttpd, Stronghold; Ch. 25: Domain Name System; Ch. 26: Mail Servers: SMTP, POP, and IMAP; Ch. 27: News, Proxy, Print, and Search Servers; Section 6: System Administration; Ch. 28: Basic System Administration; Ch. 29: Administration Tools; Ch. 30: Managing Users; Ch. 31: Software Management; Ch. 32: File System Management; Ch. 33: Devices; Ch. 34: Kernel Administration; Ch. 35: The X Window System and XFree86; Section 7: Network Administration; Ch. 36: Configuring Network Connections; Ch. 37: Samba, NFS, NIS, Appletalk; Ch. 38: Administering TCP/IP Networks; Ch. 39: Network Security: Firewalls and Encryption; Section 8: Red Hat Development; Ch. 40: Shell Programming; Ch. 41: Compilers, Libraries, and Programming Tools; Ch. 42: Gnome Development; Ch. 43: Perl, Tcl-Tk, Gawk, and LaTeX; Section 9: Appendix; A. About the DVD