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    Introduction to Linux

    Introduction to Linux

    A Hands on Guide

    Machtelt Garrels

    CoreSequence.com



    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    1. Why this guide?
    2. Who should read this book?
    3. New versions of this guide
    4. Revision History
    5. Contributions
    6. Feedback
    7. Copyright information
    8. What do you need?
    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. 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. Input and output 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. Summary
    6.4. Exercises
    7. Home sweet /home
    7.1. General good housekeeping
    7.2. Your text environment
    7.3. The graphical environment
    7.4. Sound card configuration
    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. General networking
    10.2. Internet/Intranet applications
    10.3. Remote execution of applications
    10.4. Linux as a network appliance
    10.5. Security
    10.6. Summary
    10.7. 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
    Glossary
    List of Tables
    2-1. Quickstart commands
    3-1. File types
    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. 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
    1-1. Ximian Red Carpet: automated package management
    1-2. AbiWord Word processor taskbar
    2-1. Terminal window
    3-1. Linux file system layout
    3-2. Hard and soft link mechanism
    4-1. Fork-en-exec mechanism
    4-2. Can't you go faster?
    4-3. GTop System Monitor
    8-1. RedHat printconf-gui
    8-2. Printer Status through web interface
    9-1. Floppy formatter
    9-2. Xcdroast
    10-1. Network Configuration Tool
    10-2. SSH X11 forwarding
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