- Copyright
- About the Author
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Introduction
- I. Installation and Configuration
- 1. Welcome to SUSE Linux
- 2. Preparing to Install SUSE Linux
- 3. Installing SUSE Linux
- 4. Further Configuration with YaST and SaX2
- II. Using SUSE Linux
- 5. Getting Started with SUSE Linux
- Logging In to SUSE Linux
- Working with the Linux File System
- Essential File System Commands from the /bin and /sbin Directories
- Using the /boot and /dev Directories
- Editing Configuration Files in the /etc Directory
- Where All the Good Stuff Goes: Your /home Directory
- Finding Desktop Programs in /opt
- Where Most of the Programs Go: The /usr Directory
- Variable Data: The /var Directory
- Changing User Information and the Finger Program
- Choosing and Using a Shell
- Editing Text
- Why Can’t I Edit This File? How Permissions Work
- Working as Root
- References
- 6. Launching Your Desktop
- 7. Printing with SUSE Linux
- 8. Shaking Hands with Your Shell
- 9. Being Productive: Office Suites and Other Tools
- 10. Sights, Sounds, and Other Fun Things
- 11. Going Cross-Platform
- Viewing Files from the Windows Side of Your Computer
- Emulating Other Operating Systems in Linux: An Overview
- Using Wine to Run Windows Applications
- Running Windows Applications with Win4Lin
- Running Windows Applications with VMware
- Emulating a Mac with Basilisk II
- Using dosemu and DOSBox
- Xen: The Future of Virtualization?
- References
- 5. Getting Started with SUSE Linux
- III. Using the Internet
- 12. Connecting to the Internet
- 13. Using the Internet: Browsing the Web and Writing Email
- 14. Creating Basic Websites
- 15. Managing Email Servers
- 16. Collaborating with Others
- 17. Secure File Transfer
- IV. Basic System Administration
- 18. Managing Files, Volumes, and Drives
- 19. Managing Users, Managing Security
- 20. Managing Data: Backup, Restoring, and Recovery
- 21. Keeping Your System Current: Package Management
- V. Advanced System Administration
- 22. Managing the Boot Process and Other Services
- 23. Securing Your Machines
- 24. Kernel and Module Management
- 25. Setting Up Networks and Samba
- 26. Managing Your Apache Web Server
- 27. Managing Domain Names
- VI. Programming
- 28. Using the GNU Compiler Collection and Other Programming Tools
- Basic Programming in C Under Linux
- Using the GNU Compiler Collection
- Building Java Applications with Eclipse
- Using the KDevelop Integrated Development Environment
- Using Anjuta to Create GNOME Applications
- Managing Collective Software Development with CVS and Subversion
- Creating RPM Packages
- Other Linux Programming Resources
- References
- 29. Managing Databases
- 30. Using Perl and Python
- 31. Creating Dynamic Websites
- 32. Performance Tuning
- 33. Command-Line Master Class
- Some Basic Commands
- Displaying the Contents of a File with cat
- Making and Changing Directories with mkdir and cd
- Changing File Access Permissions with chmod
- Copying, Moving, and Renaming Files with cp and mv
- Displaying Disk Usage with du
- Searching for Strings with grep
- Finding Files from an Index with locate
- Listing Files in the Current Directory with ls
- Reading Man Pages with man
- Listing Processes with ps
- Deleting Files and Directories with rm
- Displaying the Last Lines of a File with tail
- Displaying Resource Usage with top
- Displaying the Location of a Command with which
- Combining Commands Together
- References
- Some Basic Commands
- 28. Using the GNU Compiler Collection and Other Programming Tools
- VII. Appendices
- A. Versions of Novell’s SUSE Linux
- B. SUSE and Linux Internet Resources
- What’s on the DVD
The book’s DVD-ROM contains the complete binary version of SUSE Linux 10.0—the equivalent of five CDs.
BIND Documentation
HTML Documentation for the GNU C Library
GNOME 2.x Desktop Documentation
Linux and POSIX manual pages
Linux Documentation Project man pages
Qt 3 Development Kit and man pages
Samba documentation
SuSE Help System
Xen Virtualization documentation
Online manuals for X11
a2ps
ALSA
Bluetooth firmware and libraries
CUPS
Printer filters
GNOME Printing Architecture
gPhoto
GTKam
hdparm
KDE Digital Camera application
Kooka
klipsi
LIRC
mgetty
motv (Video4Linux TV application)
PCI Utilities
SCSI Tools
sendfax
wireless-tools
xpp
XSane
db-utils
Knoda
GNU Data Access (GDA) Library
C++ Client Library for PostgreSQL
Mergeant
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Rekall
SQLite
UnixODBC
XBase
AutoTrace
Blender
Dia
Eye Of GNOME
FontForge
F-Spot
GIMP
GNUPlot
Gpdf
GpsDrive
ImageMagick
Base Libraries for KDE Graphics Applications
KimDaba
netpbm
GNU Ocrad
Skencil
ALSA Tools
amaroK
arts
aumix
banshee
cdparanoia
CDRDAO
Cdrecord
Cecilia
dvd+rw-tools
FluidSynth
K3b
Kaffeine
KDE Multimedia Applications
Kino
Mkisofs
RealPlayer
Rythmbox
Sound-juicer
SOX
Totem
Xine
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