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Key Selling Points - Covers not only installation, but also moves onto more advanced topics of Linux programming in one single, easy to understand volume - Provides solution, rather than technology, oriented information, to allow readers to achieve their goals more quickly than is currently the case - Linux distributions as a whole, and Red Hat in particular, are putting on a large marketing drive to try and get their system adopted on the desktop (in favor of Windows) - New version of Red Hat Linux (version 8) has just been released. It's much better than the previous version and is squarely aimed at taking Windows desktop market share. Version 8.1 will be released in Q1 2003 - Large adoption rates of Linux by governments, police-forces and other sizable organizations including Amazon.com