Version 0.201,
2004-07-22
by Stan, Peter and Marie Klimas The latest version of this guide
is available at http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk.
Copyright (c) <1999-2004> by Peter and Stan
Klimas. Your feedback, comments, corrections, and improvements are
appreciated. Send them to linux_nag@canada.com
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If you’ve followed the Newbies series this far you now have Linux
installed, you’ve created some user accounts and you have X Window up
and running. You have a general idea of how the Linux filesystem is
laid out and you know how to edit a text file. You’ve battened down
the security of your system, you can navigate around your system, and
your confidence is increasing daily. Okay! Let’s put it all together
and take this puppy out on the road for a spin. Time to hook up your
system to the Internet.
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"You have mail" and "You have new mail" are two of the commonest
messages that greet you when you log in to a Linux system. Email is,
arguably, the most important service offered on the Internet. Despite
the ravages of spam, overactive mailing lists, and general inbox glut,
person-to-person communication with anyone in the world connected to
the Net remains one of the most compelling reasons for getting an ISP
account. Email ranks alongside the World Wide Web as one of the twin
pillars of modern technological existence.
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The Linux zone of developerWorks contains hundreds of articles, tutorials, and tips to help developers with Linux application development and system administration. But for users trying to find their way in a new topic, all of that information can be overwhelming. This page provides an overview for readers who would like to learn about Linux but don’t know where to start. It places all the Linux basics in context and ties together relevant developerWorks articles, tutorials, and tips, as well as IBM learning services education, workshops, and IBM products for your further investigation.
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The Linux zone of developerWorks contains hundreds of articles, tutorials, and tips to help developers with Linux application development and system administration. But for users trying to find their way in a new topic, all of that information can be overwhelming. This page provides an overview for readers who would like to learn about Linux but don’t know where to start. It places all the Linux basics in context and ties together relevant developerWorks articles, tutorials, and tips, as well as IBM learning services education, workshops, and IBM products for your further investigation.
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Because Linux is relatively impervious to the malwear that attacks Windows users, downloading your email and storing it on your hard drive has several advantages over leaving it on a remote server. One is that you can back it up onto a CD or DVD removable media. Two is that you can treat it like you do normal text or word processor files held in your local storage, cutting and pasting parts to augment your documents, and searching for terms, like I do when I want to see if I’ve already answered a question.
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"Hi!
I’ve been using Linux for a few days, and it’s mostly great. But, it’s
a shame that [something or other] doesn’t work like it does on Windows.
Why don’t all the developers completely rewrite all the software so it
acts more like Windows? I’m sure Linux would get lots more users if
they did!"
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Contents of this section:
0.1Fundamentally, why Linux?
0.2 Is Linux for me?
0.3 Linux is difficult for newbies
0.4 What are the benefits of Linux?
0.5 What are the differences between Linux and UNIX?
0.6 What are the differences between Linux and MS Windows?
0.7 I don’t believe in free software, etc.
0.8 "There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch"
0.9 I need warranty and security. With commercial software, I can sue them if things go wrong.
0.10 I need standards. Big software corporations (Microsoft) provide standards
0.11 I Need MS Windows for Reading Writing MS Word Documents
0.12 MS Windows popularity insures that it is "here to stay"
0.13 But LINUX may fork into many different systems ...
0.14 Linux is a cult
0.15 The total cost of ownership (TCO) of Linux is high
0.16 Linux is idealistic "dreaming"; it is business that rules the world nowadays
0.17 Linux may be found to violate somebody else’s intellectual property (IP)
0.18 Linux sux etc.
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Contents of this section:
4.2 Accessing my drives
4.2.1 Where are my drives?
4.2.2 How can I access my CDROM?
4.2.3 How to mount a floppy, zip drive, dos partition, or a network drive?
4.2.4 How to mount a remote MS Windows filesystem through Samba?
4.2.5 Any quick way to access a file on a DOS/Windows floppy?
4.2.6 Mounting works when I am root. Can a normal user mount?
4.2.7 Mounting command is too long, how can I simplify it with an alias?
4.2.8 Can I mount automatically?
4.2.9 How do I get my zip drive recognized?
4.2.10 Can I set 32-bit hard drive IO?
4.2.11 I reached the limit on the number of opened files (error message)
4.2.12 I attached a new hard drive. What do I do to start using it?
4.2.13 Swap space
4.2.13.1 Swap partitions
4.2.13.2 Swap files
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As an info,
my aim was to make a real standalone player, so my HDD is an old little HDD of
170Mo, and is connected on the first IDE port as a Master (that?s
important for the drive description in the files we will create/modify). This
HDD will just have a primary partition, and will only be used for this purpose.
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The differences between the various Linux distributions ("distros") are minor: the installation program, choice of the bundled tools/applications, arrangement of a few things on the hard drive (most of Linux is still at the same, standard hard drive location in all distributions). Whichever distribution you decide to install, you will end up with essentially the same Linux.
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This page shows you how to use an iPod with Linux. It’s aimed at
Linux purists, i.e. people who don’t want to have to use a Mac or MS
Windows-based PC to get going, nor to have to use Wine or any Windows
software. (I fall into this category, not because of any religious
convictions, but merely because Linux is all I have).
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For your webcam to work you will need support for the connection and support for the actual camera hardware. Those who are already versed in kernels and modules and how to load them should skip to Section 2.2, which addresses support of the connection type. If you know your USB, IEEE 1394 or whatever bus you will be connecting your camera to is already configured and working, you should move on to the list of specific webcam hardware listed in Section 2.3.
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You need a late version kernel. Kernel versions 2.2.7 and later
contain the USB code. You should, in an ideal world, be running the
current 2.4.0-test kernel, ideally with any pre-patches for the next
kernel. The current 2.2.x kernels do contain some USB code, but it
is less well supported, and development is patchy.
USB code is in fairly early
development, so the changes between each version (and the bugs) tend
to change fairly fast. Support on the mailing list for anything except
the lastest version is scant at best.
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Second, gather detailed information on your hardware configuration.
One easy way to do this, if you’re running MS-DOS 5.0, or up, is to
print a report from the Microsoft diagnostic utility msd.exe (you
can leave out the TSR, driver, memory-map, environment-strings and
OS-version parts). Among other things, this will guarantee you
full and correct information on your video card and mouse type,
which will be helpful in configuring X later on.
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While burning ISO images onto CDRs is a part of the Linux culture, not all of the distributions address validation of this process in the same manner. We need to burn ISO images with increasing regularity, and we may be burning them from a platform running Linux or the Solaris OS. So let’s take a few minutes and review the process and see what we can do to validate the bits that actually make it to the optical disc.
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