A.3. Accessing Red Hat Documentation

Red Hat Product Documentation located at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/ serves as a central source of information. It is currently translated in 22 languages and for each product, it provides different kinds of books from release and technical notes to installation, user, and reference guides in HTML, PDF, and EPUB formats.
The following is a brief list of documents that are directly or indirectly relevant to this book:
  • Red Hat Software Collections 2.4 Release Notes – The Release Notes for Red Hat Software Collections 2.4 document the major features and contains other information about Red Hat Software Collections, a Red Hat offering that provides a set of dynamic programming languages, database servers, and various related packages.
  • Red Hat Developer Toolset 6.1 User Guide – The User Guide for Red Hat Developer Toolset 6.1 contains information about Red Hat Developer Toolset, a Red Hat offering for developers on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Using Software Collections, Red Hat Developer Toolset provides current versions of the GCC compiler, GDB debugger and other binary utilities.
  • Using Red Hat Software Collections Container Images – This article provides information on how to use container images based on Red Hat Software Collections. The available container images include applications, daemons, and databases. The images can be run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Developer Guide – The Developer Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 provides detailed description of Red Hat Developer Toolset features, as well as an introduction to Red Hat Software Collections, and information on libraries and runtime support, compiling and building, debugging, and profiling.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 System Administrator's Guide – The System Administrator's Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 documents relevant information regarding the deployment, configuration, and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Developer Guide – The Developer Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 provides detailed description of Red Hat Developer Toolset features, as well as an introduction to Red Hat Software Collections, and information on libraries and runtime support, compiling and building, debugging, and profiling.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Deployment Guide – The Deployment Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 documents relevant information regarding the deployment, configuration, and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.