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by Laurence Hunter
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What's it all about?

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. :)

Part 1 - Hands On

    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 UPDATED! 21st October 1999
  21. Emacs Tutorial #1: Basic Editing NEW! 22nd October 1999

    The Security Bits

  22. Forgot Your root Password? NEW! 23rd October 1999

    The Programming Bits

  23. How Do I Create, Compile And Run a C Program?
Part 2 - Essential Theory Made Simple
  1. The Shell
  2. The X Window System
  3. The Kernel
  4. Files
  5. Access Rights Intro
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