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Introduction to Linux
A Hands on Guide
Machtelt Garrels
Xalasys.com
Version 1.18 20050524 Edition
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Machtelt Garrels
First published December 2002
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. What is Linux?
- 1.1. History
- 1.2. The user interface
- 1.3. Does Linux have a future?
- 1.4. Properties of Linux
- 1.5. Linux Flavors
- 1.6. Summary
- 1.7. Exercises
- 2. Quickstart
- 2.1. Logging in, activating the user interface and logging out
- 2.2. Absolute basics
- 2.3. Getting help
- 2.4. Summary
- 2.5. Exercises
- 3. About files and the file system
- 3.1. General overview of the Linux file system
- 3.2. Orientation in the file system
- 3.3. Manipulating files
- 3.4. File security
- 3.5. Summary
- 3.6. Exercises
- 4. Processes
- 4.1. Processes inside out
- 4.2. Boot process, Init and shutdown
- 4.3. Managing processes
- 4.4. Scheduling processes
- 4.5. Summary
- 4.6. Exercises
- 5. I/O redirection
- 5.1. What are standard input and standard output?
- 5.2. Summary
- 5.3. Exercises
- 6. Text editors
- 6.1. Text editors
- 6.2. Using the Vim editor
- 6.3. Linux in the office
- 6.4. Summary
- 6.5. Exercises
- 7. Home sweet /home
- 7.1. General good housekeeping
- 7.2. Your text environment
- 7.3. The graphical environment
- 7.4. Sound and video
- 7.5. Region specific settings
- 7.6. Installing new software
- 7.7. Summary
- 7.8. Exercises
- 8. Printers and printing
- 8.1. Printing files
- 8.2. The server side
- 8.3. Print problems
- 8.4. Summary
- 8.5. Exercises
- 9. Fundamental Backup Techniques
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Moving your data to a backup device
- 9.3. Summary
- 9.4. Exercises
- 10. Networking
- 10.1. Networking Overview
- 10.2. Internet/Intranet applications
- 10.3. Remote execution of applications
- 10.4. Security
- 10.5. Summary
- 10.6. Exercises
- A. Where to go from here?
- A.1. Useful Books
- A.2. Useful sites
- B. DOS versus Linux commands
- C. Shell Features
- C.1. Common features
- C.2. Differing features
- D. GNU Free Documentation License
- D.1. Preamble
- D.2. Applicability and definitions
- D.3. Verbatim copying
- D.4. Copying in quantity
- D.5. Modifications
- D.6. Combining documents
- D.7. Collections of documents
- D.8. Aggregation with independent works
- D.9. Translation
- D.10. Termination
- D.11. Future revisions of this license
- D.12. How to use this License for your documents
- E. proc.txt
- E.1. The /proc Filesystem
- Glossary
- List of Tables
- 1. Typographic and usage conventions
- 2-1. Quickstart commands
- 2-2. Key combinations in Bash
- 3-1. File types in a long list
- 3-2. Subdirectories of the root directory
- 3-3. Most common configuration files
- 3-4. Common devices
- 3-5. Color-ls default color scheme
- 3-6. Default suffix scheme for ls
- 3-7. Access mode codes
- 3-8. User group codes
- 3-9. File protection with chmod
- 3-10. New commands
- 4-1. Controlling processes
- 4-2. Common signals
- 4-3. Process handling commands
- 7-1. Common environment variables
- 8-1. Printing related commands
- 9-1. Backup commands
- B-1. Overview of DOS/Linux commands
- C-1. Common Shell Features
- C-2. Differing Shell Features
- List of Figures
- 1. Introduction to Linux front cover
- 1-1. OpenOffice MS-compatible Spreadsheet
- 2-1. Terminal window
- 2-2. Konqueror as help browser
- 3-1. Linux file system layout
- 3-2. Hard and soft link mechanism
- 4-1. Fork-and-exec mechanism
- 4-2. Can't you go faster?
- 4-3. Gnome System Monitor
- 7-1. XMMS mp3 player
- 8-1. Printer Status through web interface
- 9-1. Floppy formatter
- 10-1. Evolution mail and news reader
- 10-2. X-Chat
- 10-3. SSH X11 forwarding
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