Introduction to Linux

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Version 1.23 20060725 Edition

Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Machtelt Garrels

First published December 2002

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
   
• 1. Why this guide?
• 2. Who should read this book?
• 3. New versions and availability
• 4. Revision History
• 5. Contributions
• 6. Feedback
• 7. Copyright information
• 8. What do you need?
• 9. Conventions used in this document
• 10. Organization of this document


• 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. Simple redirections
• 5.2. Advanced redirection features
• 5.3. Filters
• 5.4. Summary
• 5.5. 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. Region specific settings
• 7.5. Installing new software
• 7.6. Summary
• 7.7. 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. Using rsync
• 9.4. Summary
• 9.5. 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


• 11. Sound and Video
   
• 11.1. Audio Basics
• 11.2. Sound and video playing
• 11.3. Video playing, streams and television watching
• 11.4. Internet Telephony
• 11.5. Summary
• 11.6. 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. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents


• 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
• 3-11. File permissions
• 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
• 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
• 11-1. XMMS mp3 player

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