
This Linux Red Hat tutorial details the process involved in transforming a stock, "out of the box" Red Hat installation into a finely tuned, stable system customized to individual needs and tastes. The material presented here is based on Red Hat 7.3, although many of the techniques and procedures discussed are equally applicable to other mainstream Linux distributions. And while the title uses the phrase "performance tuning," you'll soon discover that performance and security often go hand in hand.
Readers should have a basic understanding of common NIX administrative concepts and
tasks, such as file system layout, daemons and services, editing configuration files, the Linux initialization process, and networking.
Label: Linux