Overview

The preceding chapters and following appendices outline many new features and aspects of Linux that enable us to answer the question: Will Linux work as a corporate desktop? Furthermore, we have progressed through a series of discussions based around the concept of integration with no migration to Linux. In other words, the philosophy of this book is:

Linux can be integrated into an existing networked environment of mixed computing machines and operating systems in such a way that there is a seamless use of necessary applications.

For RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, I used the following recipe on my own machine.

13.1 Ingredients

• Network Access

• RHEL4WS Media CD-ROMs/DVD-ROM

• RHEL4WS Extras CD-ROM

• Knowledge of Linux build and configure tools

13.2 Steps

1. Install RHEL4WS, ensuring that the development environment is also installed. Install using Software Raid across two like hard disks.

2. On reboot after installation, install the contents of the RHEL4WS Extras CD-ROM.

3. Upgrade RHEL4WS to the latest versions of all software using the Red Hat Network and the up2date tool.

4. Install and configure YUM (http://dag.wieers.com/packages/yum/). Specifically download the source RPM, and use rpmrebuild to rebuild the RPM for installation on RHEL4.

5. Configure the /etc/yum.conf to point to the RHEL4 entries for the Dag Wieers RPM repository by adding the following lines:

   [dag]name=Dag RPM Repository for RHELbaseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag

6. Using YUM, specifically install some extra software from the Dag Wieers repository using the following command. You should note that some security software mentioned in this list is not discussed in the book; this...