General redhat newbie advice

[Bill McCormick]

Stuart Pittwood wrote:

> Right,
>  
> I've been running windows based networks for a few years now and would 
> like to look at Linux to see what it can do for us.  I'm not looking 
> to migrate away from windows totally but I do like the idea of not 
> having to pay windows license fees for DNS, DHCP, Web servers etc.
>  
> Can anyone recommend some good books to get me started (the 
> redhat books look pretty good at the moment).  Also, does anyone know 
> of any sites which can walk me through setting up a DNS server etc?
>  
> I'm not looking for something that will try to teach me what a a DNS 
> (or whatever) server is as I already know that, more how to configure 
> it on a Linux box.
>  

Take a look at "Linux Administration Handbook", Evi Nemeth, et. al. 
published by Prentice Hall. It pretty much covers most anything you 
might what to do on a Linux box. In terms of working individual Linux 
server applications, anything from O'Reilly should do the trick.

Cheers,

Bill