Many pages but for the most part, this book seems devoted to getting you up and running. It then spends quite some time going over the various programs that come with Red Hat. However, lets say you want to install a program that is not an RPM file, and make it available to all users. A scant 5.3 pages of this 1000 page tome are available to assist you with very few examples and not enough information. With or without this book, you will end up going through help files online to figure it out. Unless you want a ... doorstop, and remember, phonebooks are free, skip this one.