
AlmaLinux 9 Essentials
Learn to Install, Administer, and Deploy Rocky Linux 9 Systems
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
AlmaLinux 9 Essentials is intended to provide detailed information on the installation, use, and administration of the AlmaLinux 9 distribution. For beginners, the book covers topics such as operating system installation, the basics of the GNOME desktop environment, configuring email and web servers, and installing packages and system updates. Additional installation topics, such as dual booting with Microsoft Windows, are also covered, together with all important security topics, such as configuring a firewall and user and group administration.
For the experienced user, topics such as remote desktop access, the Cockpit web interface, logical volume management (LVM), disk partitioning, swap management, KVM virtualization, Secure Shell (SSH), Linux Containers, and file sharing using both Samba and NFS are covered in detail to provide a thorough overview of this enterprise class operating system.
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Table of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Brief History of AlmaLinux
- 3. Installing AlmaLinux 9 on a Clean Disk Drive
- 4. Dual Booting AlmaLinux 9 with Windows
- 5. Allocating Windows Disk Partitions to AlmaLinux 9
- 6. A Guided Tour of the GNOME 40 Desktop
- 7. An Overview of the Cockpit Web Interface
- 8. Using the Bash Shell on AlmaLinux 9
- 9. Managing AlmaLinux 9 Users and Groups
- 10. AlmaLinux 9 Software Installation and AppStreams
- 11. Managing AlmaLinux 9 systemd Units
- 12. AlmaLinux 9 Network Management
- 13. AlmaLinux 9 Firewall Basics
- 14. AlmaLinux 9 Firewall Configuration with firewalld
- 15. Configuring SSH Key-based Authentication on AlmaLinux 9
- 16. AlmaLinux 9 Remote Desktop Access with VNC
- 17. Displaying AlmaLinux 9 Applications Remotely (X11 Forwarding)
- 18. Using NFS on AlmaLinux 9 to Share Files with Remote Systems
- 19. Sharing Files between AlmaLinux 9 and Windows with Samba
- 20. An Overview of Virtualization Techniques
- 21. Installing KVM Virtualization on AlmaLinux 9
- 22. Creating KVM Virtual Machines on AlmaLinux 9 using Cockpit
- 23. Creating KVM Virtual Machines on AlmaLinux 9 using virt-manager
- 24. Creating KVM Virtual Machines with virt-install and virsh
- 25. Creating an AlmaLinux 9 KVM Networked Bridge Interface
- 26. Managing KVM using the virsh Command-Line Tool
- 27. An Introduction to Linux Containers
- 28. Working with Containers on AlmaLinux 9
- 29. Setting Up an AlmaLinux 9 Web Server
- 30. Configuring an AlmaLinux 9 Postfix Email Server
- 31. Adding a New Disk Drive to an AlmaLinux 9 System
- 32. Adding a New Disk to an AlmaLinux 9 Volume Group and Logical Volume
- 33. Adding and Managing AlmaLinux 9 Swap Space
- 34. AlmaLinux 9 System and Process Monitoring
- Index