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Running Linux, 5th Edition
Preface
Organization of This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
How to Contact Us
Safari® Enabled
Acknowledgments
Part I: Enjoying and Being Productive on Linux
Chapter 1. Introduction to Linux
Section 1.1. About This Book
Section 1.2. Who's Using Linux?
Section 1.3. System Features
Section 1.4. About Linux's Copyright
Section 1.5. Open Source and the Philosophy of Linux
Section 1.6. Sources of Linux Information
Section 1.7. Getting Help
Chapter 2. Preinstallation and Installation
Section 2.1. Distributions of Linux
Section 2.2. Preparing to Install Linux
Section 2.3. Post-Installation Procedures
Section 2.4. Running into Trouble
Chapter 3. Desktop Environments
Section 3.1. Why Use a Graphical Desktop?
Section 3.2. The K Desktop Environment
Section 3.3. KDE Applications
Section 3.4. The GNOME Desktop Environment
Section 3.5. GNOME Applications
Chapter 4. Basic Unix Commands and Concepts
Section 4.1. Logging In
Section 4.2. Setting a Password
Section 4.3. Virtual Consoles
Section 4.4. Popular Commands
Section 4.5. Shells
Section 4.6. Useful Keys and How to Get Them to Work
Section 4.7. Typing Shortcuts
Section 4.8. Filename Expansion
Section 4.9. Saving Your Output
Section 4.10. What Is a Command?
Section 4.11. Putting a Command in the Background
Section 4.12. Remote Logins and Command Execution
Section 4.13. Manual Pages
Section 4.14. Startup Files
Section 4.15. Important Directories
Section 4.16. Basic Text Editing
Section 4.17. Advanced Shells and Shell Scripting
Chapter 5. Web Browsers and Instant Messaging
Section 5.1. The World Wide Web
Section 5.2. Instant Messaging
Chapter 6. Electronic Mail Clients
Section 6.1. Using KMail
Section 6.2. Using Mozilla Mail & News
Section 6.3. Getting the Mail to Your Computer with fetchmail
Section 6.4. OpenPGP Encryption with GnuPG
Chapter 7. Games
Section 7.1. Gaming
Section 7.2. Quake III
Section 7.3. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Section 7.4. Unreal Tournament 2004
Section 7.5. Emulators
Section 7.6. Frozen Bubble
Section 7.7. Tux Racer
Chapter 8. Office Suites and Personal Productivity
Section 8.1. Using OpenOffice
Section 8.2. KOffice
Section 8.3. Other Word Processors
Section 8.4. Synching PDAs
Section 8.5. Groupware
Section 8.6. Managing Your Finances
Chapter 9. Multimedia
Section 9.1. Multimedia Concepts
Section 9.2. Kernel and Driver Issues
Section 9.3. Embedded and Other Multimedia Devices
Section 9.4. Desktop Environments
Section 9.5. Windows Compatibility
Section 9.6. Multimedia Applications
Section 9.7. Multimedia Toolkits and Development Environments
Section 9.8. Solutions to Common Problems
Section 9.9. References
Part II: System Administration
Chapter 10. System Administration Basics
Section 10.1. Maintaining the System
Section 10.2. Managing Filesystems
Section 10.3. Managing Swap Space
Section 10.4. The /proc Filesystem
Section 10.5. Device Files
Section 10.6. Scheduling Recurring Jobs Using cron
Section 10.7. Executing Jobs Once
Section 10.8. Managing System Logs
Section 10.9. Processes
Section 10.10. Programs That Serve You
Chapter 11. Managing Users, Groups, and Permissions
Section 11.1. Managing User Accounts
Section 11.2. File Ownership and Permissions
Section 11.3. Changing the Owner, Group, and Permissions
Chapter 12. Installing, Updating, and Compiling Programs
Section 12.1. Upgrading Software
Section 12.2. General Upgrade Procedure
Section 12.3. Automated and Bulk Upgrades
Section 12.4. Upgrading Software Not Provided in Packages
Section 12.5. Archive and Compression Utilities
Chapter 13. Networking
Section 13.1. Networking with TCP/IP
Section 13.2. Dial-Up PPP
Section 13.3. PPP over ISDN
Section 13.4. ADSL
Section 13.5. Cable Modems
Section 13.6. Network Diagnostics Tools
Chapter 14. Printing
Section 14.1. Printing
Section 14.2. Managing Print Services
Chapter 15. File Sharing
Section 15.1. Sharing Files with Windows Systems (Samba)
Section 15.2. NFS Configuration and NIS
Chapter 16. The X Window System
Section 16.1. A History of X
Section 16.2. X Concepts
Section 16.3. Hardware Requirements
Section 16.4. Installing X.org
Section 16.5. Configuring X.org
Section 16.6. Running X
Section 16.7. Running into Trouble
Section 16.8. X and 3D
Chapter 17. System Start and Shutdown
Section 17.1. Booting the System
Section 17.2. System Startup and Initialization
Section 17.3. Single-User Mode
Section 17.4. Shutting Down the System
Section 17.5. A Graphical Runlevel Editor: KSysV
Chapter 18. Configuring and Building the Kernel
Section 18.1. Building a New Kernel
Section 18.2. Loadable Device Drivers
Section 18.3. Loading Modules Automatically
Chapter 19. Text Editing
Section 19.1. Editing Files Using vi
Section 19.2. The (X)Emacs Editor
Chapter 20. Text Processing
Section 20.1. TeX and LaTeX
Section 20.2. XML and DocBook
Section 20.3. groff
Section 20.4. Texinfo
Part III: Programming
Chapter 21. Programming Tools
Section 21.1. Programming with gcc
Section 21.2. Makefiles
Section 21.3. Debugging with gdb
Section 21.4. Useful Utilities for C Programmers
Section 21.5. Using Perl
Section 21.6. Java
Section 21.7. Python
Section 21.8. Other Languages
Section 21.9. Introduction to OpenGL Programming
Section 21.10. Integrated Development Environments
Chapter 22. Running a Web Server
Section 22.1. Configuring Your Own Web Server
Chapter 23. Transporting and Handling Email Messages
Section 23.1. The Postfix MTA
Section 23.2. Procmail
Section 23.3. Filtering Spam
Chapter 24. Running an FTP Server
Section 24.1. Introduction
Section 24.2. Compiling and Installing
Section 24.3. Running ProFTPD
Section 24.4. Configuration
Part IV: Network Services
Chapter 25. Running Web Applications with MySQL and PHP
Section 25.1. MySQL
Section 25.2. PHP
Section 25.3. The LAMP Server in Action
Chapter 26. Running a Secure System
Section 26.1. A Perspective on System Security
Section 26.2. Initial Steps in Setting Up a Secure System
Section 26.3. TCP Wrapper Configuration
Section 26.4. Firewalls: Filtering IP Packets
Section 26.5. SELinux
Chapter 27. Backup and Recovery
Section 27.1. Making Backups
Section 27.2. What to Do in an Emergency
Chapter 28. Heterogeneous Networking and Running Windows Programs
Section 28.1. Sharing Partitions
Section 28.2. Emulation and Virtual Operating Systems
Section 28.3. Remote Desktop Access to Windows Programs
Section 28.4. FreeNX: Linux as a Remote Desktop Server
Appendix A. Sources of Linux Information
Section A.1. Linux Documentation Project
Section A.2. FTP Sites
Section A.3. World Wide Web Sites
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