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Red Hat Fedora Linux Secrets ® ® Naba Barkakati ® ™ Red Hat Fedora Linux Secrets ® ™ ® ® Red Hat Fedora Linux Secrets ® ® Naba Barkakati ® ™ Red Hat® Fedora™ Linux® Secrets® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-471-74757-4 ISBN-10: 0-471-74757-2 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 1B/SS/QZ/QV/IN No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood 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/ Naba Barkakati p cm Includes index ISBN-13: 978-0-471-74757-4 (paper/dvd) ISBN-10: 0-471-74757-2 (paper/dvd) Linux Operating systems (Computers) I Title QA76.76.O63B3661525 2005 005.4 32—dc22 2005017620 Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley logo, Secrets, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc and/or its affiliates, in the United States and other countries, and may not be used without written permission Red Hat and Fedora are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book To my wife, Leha, and daughters, Ivy, Emily, and Ashley About the Author Naba Barkakati, an electrical engineer and a successful computer-book author, has experience in a wide variety of systems, ranging from MS-DOS and Windows to UNIX and Linux He bought his first personal computer—an IBM PC-AT—in 1984 after graduating with a Ph.D in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park While pursuing a full-time career in engineering, Naba dreamed of writing software for the emerging PC software market As luck would have it, instead of building a software empire like Microsoft, he ended up writing successful computer books Currently, Naba is a Senior Level Technologist at the Center for Technology and Engineering in the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) Over the past 17 years, Naba has written more than 25 computer books on a number of topics, ranging from object-oriented programming with C++ to Linux He has written several best-selling titles, such as The Waite Group’s Turbo C++ Bible, Object-Oriented Programming in C++, X Window System Programming, Visual C++ Developer’s Guide, Borland C++ Developer’s Guide, and Linux Secrets His books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, French, Polish, 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