This manual takes a concise instructional approach to show you how to get specific things done in Linux. The unfortunate drawback to this approach is that it inevitably becomes - in part - distro-specific. Before the end of the year though, I'll hopefully have on this site, editions of the manual for other distros...

Much of this manual is not distro-specific, so if you do use another distro then I still recommend checking out this manual (although ignore parts 2 and 3 of "The Installation Bits"). I've had much praise given to the manual from users of other distros so I must be doing something right. :)

The Installation Bits

1. How Do I Partition My Hard Drive?
2. How Do I Begin The Linux Installation Program?
3. The No Nonsense Red Hat Installation Guide

   The User Account Bits

4. Logging-in and Creating a User Account
5. Temporarily Becoming root: The su Command

   The Command Line Bits

6. Command Tutorial #1: cd & ls
7. Command Tutorial #2: mkdir & rmdir
8. Command Tutorial #3: cp, mv & rm

   The Disk Bits

9. Accessing Disks: The /etc/fstab File
10. Formatting Floppy Disks and Zip Disks

    The Net Bits

11. Setting-up an Internet Connection
12. Setting-up E-mail For KMail
13. Setting-up fetchmail and Pine

    The Configuration Bits

14. The Setup Utility

    The Customising Your Terminal Bits

15. Putting Life Into Your Terminal
16. Shortening All Those Huge Commands: Aliases
17. Customising Your Login Message

    The Compression Bits

18. Tar and Feathers - Without the Feathers
19. Winzip or Linzip? - The zip and unzip Commands

    The Text Editor Bits

20. Vi Survival Guide 21st October 1999
21. Emacs Tutorial #1: Basic Editing 22nd October 1999

    The Security Bits

22. Forgot Your root Password? 23rd October 1999

    The Programming Bits

23. How Do I Create, Compile And Run a C Program?

1. The Shell
2. The X Window System
3. The Kernel
4. Files
5. Access Rights Intro

The Newbie's Linux Manual is reproduced on LinuxMall.com by permission. The Newbie's Linux Manual is written and maintained by Laurence Hunter. You can find much more of Laurence's work at his site: www.Linuxdot.org