Carla Schroder

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Carla Schroder is a self-taught Linux and Windows sysadmin who laid hands on her first computer around her 37th birthday. Her first PC was a Macintosh LC II. Next came an IBM clone--a 386SX running MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 with a 14-inch color display--which was adequate for many pleasant hours of Doom play. Then around 1997 she discovered Red Hat 5.0 and had a whole new world to explore.

Somewhere along the way she found herself doing freelance consulting for small businesses and home users, supporting both Linux and Windows users and integrating Linux and Windows on the LAN, primarily Linux servers and Windows clients. She is the author of the Linux Cookbook for O'Reilly, and writes Linux how-tos for several computer publications.

Carla is living proof that you're never too old to try something new; computers are a heck of a lot of fun; and anyone can learn to do anything. Visit tuxcomputing.com for more Carla stuff.

The Book of Audacity (No Starch) by Carla Schroder March 2011 Print: $34.95 Ebook: $27.95	Linux Networking Cookbook by Carla Schroder November 2007 Print: $44.99 Ebook: $35.99
Linux Cookbook by Carla Schroder November 2004 Print: $44.95 Ebook: $35.99

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Webinar: Control a World of Computers From Your Linux PC
March 20, 2008
In this webinar, Carla Schroder, columnist, blogger, and author of the Linux Cookbook and Linux Networking Cookbook, covers the finer points of secure remote graphical administration from your Linux PC, showing how to run graphical applications, your...

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My Fabulous Geek Career
Publish Date: Sep. 24, 2007Carla Schroder talks about how her thick skin helped her create her own fulfilling career. Fine-Tuning Kubuntu
Publish Date: Mar. 9, 2006Ubuntu is a well-maintained, well-organized Linux distribution. Kubuntu adds the popular and powerful KDE desktop environment. As nice as Kubuntu is, the default installation doesn't fit every user. Carla Schroder shows how to get help, get access to more software packages, set up a firewall, and review and get rid of unnecessary services. Network Installation of Windows Printers from Samba
Publish Date: Jan. 13, 2005The combination of Samba and CUPS makes network printing on a mixed Linux/Windows LAN easier than ever. You can share Linux printers with Windows clients, and Windows printers with Linux clients. A Linux/Samba/CUPS printer server is reliable and reasonably simple to set up and maintain. Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, shows you how. Excerpt from Linux Cookbook, Part 2
Publish Date: Dec. 22, 2004In the second part of this two-part series, Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, offers two more recipes, including tips on running different window managers simultaneously with Xnest and hosting multiple domains with Apache. Excerpt from Linux Cookbook, Part 1
Publish Date: Dec. 9, 2004Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, has three tasty recipes to share in this week's excerpt. Whether you want tips on installing a program for easy uninstall, killing user processes, or better logins without passwords, Carla poses the problems and offers solutions. Too bad not all recipes can be this clear, quick, and painless.

"This book is just right for the person like myself who enjoys learning by getting hands-on experience with the technology. The scope is wide and so someone with a great depth of networking experience may find that the treatments of each is a bit shallow. On the other hand, that wide scope means this book may hold something new, even for someone with some level of experience."
--JR Peck, Slashdot

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