In the world of large corporates, you need to list your competition with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Every year Microsoft dutifully does this, and it gives analysts a pretty good idea of what Microsoft will be targeting as a major threat to it's business for the future. In the past, Linux has featured on it's competition list only in the Server area, completely dismissing that Linux may be a threat to Microsoft Windows on the desktop. All that has changed all of a sudden by the looks of things, and MS have woken up to the fact that Linux' popularity on Netbooks alone is causing massive dents in Microsoft's near flawless reign at the top of the desktop market.

This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.2 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx, not Apache.

Please note that this setup does not work for ISPConfig 2! It is valid for ISPConfig 3 only!

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

Contents:

Mounting the /proc Filesystem
Installing the Binaries
Setting the Hostname
Assigning IP Addresses
Creating Subnets
Writing hosts and networks Files
Interface Configuration for IP
All About ifconfig
The netstat Command
Checking the ARP Tables

In this chapter, we walk you through all the necessary steps to set up TCP/IP networking on your machine. Starting with the assignment of IP addresses, we slowly work our way through the configuration of TCP/IP network interfaces and introduce a few tools that come in handy when hunting down network installation problems.

Contents:
Communications Software for Modem Links
Introduction to Serial Devices
Accessing Serial Devices
Serial Hardware
Using the Configuration Utilities
Serial Devices and the login: Prompt

The Internet is growing at an incredible rate. Much of this growth is attributed to Internet users who can't afford high-speed permanent network connections and who use protocols such as SLIP, PPP, or UUCP to dial in to a network provider to retrieve their daily dose of email and news.

Contents:
Kernel Configuration
A Tour of Linux Network Devices
Ethernet Installation
The PLIP Driver
The PPP and SLIP Drivers
Other Network Types

We've been talking quite a bit about network interfaces and general TCP/IP issues, but we haven't really covered what happens when the "networking code" in the kernel accesses a piece of hardware. In order to describe this accurately, we have to talk a little about the concept of interfaces and drivers.

Contents:
Networking Interfaces
IP Addresses
Address Resolution
IP Routing
The Internet Control Message Protocol
Resolving Host Names

In this chapter we turn to the configuration decisions you'll need to make when connecting your Linux machine to a TCP/IP network, including dealing with IP addresses, hostnames, and routing issues. This chapter gives you the background you need in order to understand what your setup requires, while the next chapters cover the tools you will use.

The idea of networking is probably as old as telecommunications itself. Consider people living in the Stone Age, when drums may have been used to transmit messages between individuals. Suppose caveman A wants to invite caveman B over for a game of hurling rocks at each other, but they live too far apart for B to hear A banging his drum. What are A's options? He could 1) walk over to B's place, 2) get a bigger drum, or 3) ask C, who lives halfway between them, to forward the message. The last option is called networking.

G.2. Installing Red Hat Linux in a Dual-Boot Environment

After Windows is installed and you have free disk space ready for Linux, you can start the Red Hat Linux installation program. Go to Chapter 1 Steps to Get You Started to begin. At this point, the only difference between a Red Hat Linux installation and configuring a dual-boot system during the Red Hat Linux installation is partitioning the hard drive and configuring the boot loader. When you are at the Disk Partitioning Setup screen as described in Section 3.17 Disk Partitioning Setup, return to this section.

NAME

boot-scripts - General description of boot sequence

DESCRIPTION

The boot sequence varies in details among systems but can be roughly divided to the following steps: (i) hardware boot, (ii) OS loader, (iii) kernel startup, (iv) init and inittab, (v) boot scripts. We will describe each of these in more detail below. 

"While it might be possible for distros to have a signing system that would be compatible with M$'s scheme, even I build kernels and compile source code sometimes," said blogger Robert Pogson. "There's no way the hundreds of thousands of developers who work on Linux will afford such a scheme. Most do not even buy signed certificates for servers. How are we Flossies going to afford one for every piece of software to be installed on a PC?"