This document is tailored as a step-by-step, example driven document instead of a detailed explanation document on each Linux feature. It doesn't go into much debugging aspects since the Linux Documentation Project's (LDP) HOWTOs already cover this.
This document is intended for a technical audience! It's discuss how to install a RedHat Linux Server with all the necessary security and optimization for a high performance Linux specific machine. Since we speak of optimization and configuration options, we will use a source
distribution (tar.gz) program the most possible especially for critical server software like Apache, Bind, Samba, Squid, Openssl etc.
Source program will give us a fast upgrade when necessary and a customization, optimization for our specific machines that often we can't have with RPM. I have used many freely available sources to write this documentation, it seems only fair to give the work back to the Linux community. It is focused on the Intel x86 hardware, so if you are looking for PPC, ARM, SPARC, APX, etc.. features; you probably won't find what you are looking for.
Minimal installation for this Server require that you recompile the kernel, other programs are specific according to your needs.