Summary

Continuing with the tradition of offering the most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market, Fedora Unleashed, 2008 Edition, includes new and additional material based on the latest release of Red Hat's Fedora Core Linux distribution. This edition thoroughly covers all of Fedora's software packages, including up-to-date material on new applications, Web development, peripherals, and programming languages. It also includes updated discussion of the architecture of the Linux kernel, USB, KDE, GNOME, broadband access issues, routing, gateways, firewalls, disk tuning, GCC, Perl, Python, printing services (CUPS), wireless support, international support, Java programs support (Eclipse), and security. For the first time with this edition, those who purchase the 2008 Edition of Fedora Unleashed will be offered a free upgrade to Fedora 9 (or the next version of Fedora) with a free copy of the Fedora 9 Kick Start mailed to them as soon as it's available.