Essential

By: Ian Chivers

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Linux has become increasingly popular as an alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows as its ease of installation and use has improved. This, combined with an ever growing range of applications, makes it an attractive alternative to Windows for many people.
Essential Linux fast covers areas such as:
- The essential preliminaries that should be carried out before installing Linux
- Installing a Linux system
- Configuring peripherals
- Using X windows
- Basic and intermediate Unix commands
- Using the Internet with Linux
- Using Linux for document preparation
- Using Linux for programming
If you want to make the switch from Windows, this is the book you need. Ian Chivers tells you how to get and install Linux and explains why Linux is becoming the hottest operating system of the millennium.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Operating Systems Linux

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Overview	p. 1
Assumptions	p. 2
What is Linux?	p. 2
What is POSIX?	p. 4
What is Unix?	p. 4
Brief history of networking: TCP/IP and the Internet	p. 5
The rest of the book	p. 5
Bibliography	p. 6
Acknowledgements	p. 7
Linux Versions	p. 9
Red Hat	p. 10
SuSe	p. 11
Overview of the installation options	p. 12
Bibliography	p. 13
The Preliminaries	p. 15
How to find out hardware details about your system	p. 16
Hardware and associated manuals	p. 19
Your DOS and Windows distribution disks	p. 19
Making boot floppies	p. 20
What additional files are needed?	p. 20
Autoexec.bat and config.sys	p. 21
CD-Rom drivers	p. 22
Backing up your work files	p. 23
Hard disks background	p. 23
FDISK	p. 24
What type of Linux installation?	p. 27
Partitions and the Linux file system	p. 29
Printing documentation prior to the install	p. 31
Boot floppy	p. 32
TCP/IP and networking	p. 33
Final note	p. 35
Bibliography	p. 36
Installing Linux	p. 39
Single booting at home, local area network, booting from /boot	p. 41
Dual boot system at home, local area network, booting from CD	p. 42
Dual boot system at home, local area network, booting from /boot	p. 43
Partitionless install	p. 47
Single boot system at work, network connected, booting from /boot	p. 48
Dual boot system at work, network connected, LiLo	p. 49
Monitor and graphics card	p. 49
Summary	p. 50
Security and Linux	p. 50
Bibliography	p. 51
Linux and Windows	p. 53
X-Windows and XFree86	p. 54
Windows managers	p. 54
Some basics	p. 55
Double click versus single click	p. 57
Logging on for the first time	p. 57
KDE	p. 58
Gnome	p. 60
Summary	p. 62
Bibliography	p. 63
Basic Unix	p. 65
Command examples	p. 66
Getting help	p. 70
Basic DOS and Unix counterparts	p. 71
Other Unix commands	p. 72
Accessing the floppy drive	p. 72
Accessing the CD-Rom drive	p. 74
Text editors	p. 76
Bibliography	p. 81
System Administration	p. 81
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)	p. 82
Accessing the floppy drive	p. 89
Accessing the CD-Rom drive	p. 90
Making a boot floppy	p. 91
Linuxconf	p. 92
YaST--Yet another Setup Tool	p. 93
Setting up a printer	p. 94
Setting up a modem	p. 97
Setting up a sound card	p. 101
Setting up a scanner	p. 101
Setting up a Web camera	p. 101
CD rewriter	p. 102
System start-up and shutdown	p. 102
Making more memory available	p. 103
Accessing a Windows partition	p. 104
Miscellaneous	p. 106
Bibliography	p. 107
Networking and Security	p. 109
Networking basics	p. 110
Basic network terminology	p. 111
Networking at home	p. 113
Network administration via graphical interfaces	p. 114
Networking at work	p. 120
Network set-up programs	p. 120
Networking utilities	p. 120
Security	p. 121
Sendmail	p. 126
Other security options	p. 127
System logs	p. 129
Summary	p. 131
Bibliography	p. 132
More Unix	p. 135
Computer system overview	p. 136
The command interpreter or shell	p. 136
Pattern matching	p. 138
Metacharacters	p. 138
Unix metacharacters and associated programs	p. 139
Working with files, directories and the file system	p. 151
Help	p. 154
vi	p. 155
Managing jobs and processes	p. 160
Managing your environment	p. 163
Summary	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 169
Installing Software	p. 171
RPM	p. 172
What is installed?	p. 172
Gnome RPM--GnoRPM	p. 173
YaST	p. 174
Compression	p. 174
Mounting the CD-Rom drive	p. 176
Adobe Acrobat	p. 176
SuSe 6.4 Linux and ed	p. 177
GNU Fortran 77	p. 182
NAG Intel g77 Double Precision Numeric Library	p. 183
Java	p. 184
Summary	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 185
Text Formatting and Document Production	p. 187
Electronic publishing basics	p. 188
Text tools	p. 189
TeX	p. 190
LaTex	p. 191
Fonts	p. 191
W3C	p. 192
Graphics formats	p. 192
Bitmap	p. 192
HTML	p. 193
Portable Document Format (PDF)	p. 194
PostScript	p. 194
Ghostscript	p. 194
XML	p. 195
Summary	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 195
Programming Languages	p. 197
History	p. 198
C	p. 200
C++	p. 200
Intel/Linux Fortran compilers	p. 201
Java	p. 204
Practical extraction and report language (Perl)	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 206
Miscellaneous	p. 207
Electronic mail--email	p. 208
Linux as a platform for a Web server	p. 210
Database management	p. 213
High-performance computing	p. 214
Bibliography	p. 216
Resume	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 220
Appendix	p. 221
Index	p. 223
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