AlmaLinux 9 Essentials
eBook - ePub

AlmaLinux 9 Essentials

Learn to Install, Administer, and Deploy Rocky Linux 9 Systems

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

AlmaLinux 9 Essentials

Learn to Install, Administer, and Deploy Rocky Linux 9 Systems

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. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. A Brief History of AlmaLinux
  3. 3. Installing AlmaLinux 9 on a Clean Disk Drive
  4. 4. Dual Booting AlmaLinux 9 with Windows
  5. 5. Allocating Windows Disk Partitions to AlmaLinux 9
  6. 6. A Guided Tour of the GNOME 40 Desktop
  7. 7. An Overview of the Cockpit Web Interface
  8. 8. Using the Bash Shell on AlmaLinux 9
  9. 9. Managing AlmaLinux 9 Users and Groups
  10. 10. AlmaLinux 9 Software Installation and AppStreams
  11. 11. Managing AlmaLinux 9 systemd Units
  12. 12. AlmaLinux 9 Network Management
  13. 13. AlmaLinux 9 Firewall Basics
  14. 14. AlmaLinux 9 Firewall Configuration with firewalld
  15. 15. Configuring SSH Key-based Authentication on AlmaLinux 9
  16. 16. AlmaLinux 9 Remote Desktop Access with VNC
  17. 17. Displaying AlmaLinux 9 Applications Remotely (X11 Forwarding)
  18. 18. Using NFS on AlmaLinux 9 to Share Files with Remote Systems
  19. 19. Sharing Files between AlmaLinux 9 and Windows with Samba
  20. 20. An Overview of Virtualization Techniques
  21. 21. Installing KVM Virtualization on AlmaLinux 9
  22. 22. Creating KVM Virtual Machines on AlmaLinux 9 using Cockpit
  23. 23. Creating KVM Virtual Machines on AlmaLinux 9 using virt-manager
  24. 24. Creating KVM Virtual Machines with virt-install and virsh
  25. 25. Creating an AlmaLinux 9 KVM Networked Bridge Interface
  26. 26. Managing KVM using the virsh Command-Line Tool
  27. 27. An Introduction to Linux Containers
  28. 28. Working with Containers on AlmaLinux 9
  29. 29. Setting Up an AlmaLinux 9 Web Server
  30. 30. Configuring an AlmaLinux 9 Postfix Email Server
  31. 31. Adding a New Disk Drive to an AlmaLinux 9 System
  32. 32. Adding a New Disk to an AlmaLinux 9 Volume Group and Logical Volume
  33. 33. Adding and Managing AlmaLinux 9 Swap Space
  34. 34. AlmaLinux 9 System and Process Monitoring
  35. Index