1. 1 Historical perspectives on Linux. - 1. 2 Versions. - 1. 3 Features. - 1. 4 UNIX development and standards. - 1. 5 The Free Software Foundation. - Features. - New Features in Linux 2. 0. - Hardware. - 4. 1 Required hardware. - 4. 2 Supported hardware. - Basic Installation. - 5. 1 Overview. - 5. 2 Booting for installation. - 5. 3 Partitioning. - The Installation Program. - 6. 1 Language. - 6. 2 Partitioning. - 6. 3 Swap partition. - 6. 4 File system partition. - 6. 5 X11 configuration. - 6. 6 Products. - 6. 7 Network adapter selection. - 6. 8 Installation. - 6. 9 Reboot. - 6. 10 Launching a shell. - 6. 11 Aborting installation. - The Boot System. - 7. 1 Boot options. - 7. 2 The Linux Universe boot manager. - 7. 3 Boot variants. - Fundamentals of Linux. - 8. 1 First things first. - 8. 2 Accessing and removing the Linux Universe CD. - 8. 3 Accessing other file systems. - 8. 4 Linux identifiers. - 8. 5 Users and groups. - 8. 6 Files under Linux. - 8. 7 Essential commands. - 8. 8 Redirection of input and output. - 8. 9 Piping commands. - 8. 10 Accessing floppy disk drives. - 8. 11 Virtual consoles. - 8. 12 Automatic path extension. - 8. 13 Compressed files. - 8. 14 Printing. - 8. 15 Background commands. - 8. 16 Help and documentation. - 8. 17 Fundamentals of X11. - Administration. - 9. 1 What is administration?. - 9. 2 xadmin. - 9. 3 Software management. - 9. 4 Configuration of the file systems. - 9. 5 Setting the keyboard type. - 9. 6 Processes. - 9. 7 Shutting down the Linux system. - 9. 8 Kernel modules. - 9. 9 Utilities. - 9. 10 The appointment calendar cron. - 9. 11 User management. - 9. 12 User groups. - 9. 13 Adding and removing shells with xadmin. - 9. 14 Message of the day. - 9. 15 Boot message. - 9. 16 Formatting floppy disks. - 9. 17 Copying floppy disks. - 9. 18 Setting date and time. - 9. 19 Backups. - 9. 20 Environment variables. - 9. 21 Printer configuration. - 9. 22 Setting the modem port. - 9. 23 Network. - 9. 24 Kernel compilation. - 9. 25 X11 configuration. - 9. 26 Configuration of X applications. - 9. 27 The source code CD. - Reference. Language: English