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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Three Presumptuous Assumptions | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Getting Your Feet Wet | |
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| Getting Acquainted with Linux | |
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| Linux: Revolution or Just Another Operating System? | |
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| Anatomy of an Open Source Software Project | |
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| GNU who? | |
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| Packaging Linux: The Distribution | |
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| Prepping Your Computer for Linux | |
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| Installation Considerations | |
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| Preparing to Use Linux and Microsoft Windows Together | |
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| Working with Disk Partitions | |
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| Assessing Your Computer | |
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| Finally, Preparing for Your Installation | |
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| Enabling Booting from a CD- or DVD-ROM | |
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| Preparing to Boot from the Floppy Installation Disk | |
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| Installing Fedora Core | |
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| Things to Consider before You Begin Installation | |
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| The Installation Process | |
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| Your First Boot | |
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| Installing Other Distributions | |
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| Distribution Geography | |
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| Mandrake | |
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| SuSE | |
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| Booting and Stopping Linux | |
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| Giving Linux the Boot | |
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| Troubleshooting the Boot | |
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| Don't Just Turn Off the Machine! | |
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| Dip in Those Toes | |
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| The Interfaces | |
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| Accounts Great and Small | |
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| Printing | |
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| Zen and the Art of Linux Configuration | |
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| Internet NOW | |
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| Connecting to the Internet | |
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| Internet Connectivity 101 | |
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| Creating Your Internet-O-Matic | |
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| Turning to TCP/IP | |
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| Surfing the Web and Managing E-Mail | |
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| Configuring Mozilla | |
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| Them Dad-Gum Browser Plug-Ins | |
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| Shifting Mozilla into Gear | |
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| Evolving into E-Mail | |
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| Cool Internet Tools | |
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| Instant Messaging | |
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| Other Browsers to Consider | |
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| E-Mail Client: KMail | |
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| Transferring Files with FTP | |
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| Getting Up to Speed with Linux | |
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| Manipulating Files and Directories | |
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| Comprehending File Types | |
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| Working with the File System | |
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| Haggling with Permissions | |
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| Wildcards, or Legal Cheating | |
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| File Managers | |
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| Working without the GUI | |
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| Playing the Shell Game | |
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| Understanding bash Command Syntax and Structure | |
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| Starting Programs from the Shell | |
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| Putting Wildcard Expansion to Good Use | |
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| Working with Long Commands | |
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| Working with Variables | |
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| Using Redirection and Pipes | |
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| Altering the Shell Environment | |
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| Your Handy Command Toolkit | |
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| Gettin' Gooey with the GUIs | |
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| Changing GNOME's Look and Feel | |
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| Customizing KDE | |
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| Prettying Up Your Desktop | |
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| Tweaking the GUI's Innards | |
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| Putting the X in Text | |
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| Viewing the Contents of a Text File | |
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| Getting Prehistoric with vi | |
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| Going with gedit | |
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| Word Processing and More with OpenOffice.org | |
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| Installing OpenOffice.Org | |
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| Word Processing with OpenOffice.Org Writer | |
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| Spreadsheets with OpenOffice.Org Calc | |
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| Presentations with OpenOffice.Org Impress | |
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| Using the AutoPilot Presentation Wizard | |
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| Fine Art with OpenOffice.Org Draw | |
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| Calculations with OpenOffice.Org Math | |
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| Multimedia Wow! | |
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| Some Preliminaries | |
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| Checking Your Sound Card | |
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| Watchin' Movies | |
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| Dealing with Windows-Only Media Formats and Programs | |
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| Available Software | |
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| Installing and Using Wine | |
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| Sinking Your Teeth into Linux | |
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| Checking Out the Linux File System | |
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| Introducing the Linux File System | |
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| Partitions versus Directories | |
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| Adding Media to Your File System | |
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| Care and Feeding of Your File System | |
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| Sharing Files by Using NFS | |
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| Accessing Shared Files on a Windows Computer | |
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| Adding Software to Linux | |
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| Getting Tarred and Feathered | |
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| Revving Your RPMs | |
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| Updating Your Machine | |
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| Finding New Software | |
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| A Secure Linux Box Is a Happy Linux Box | |
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| Choosing Secure Passwords | |
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| Updating Software | |
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| Plugging Security Holes | |
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| Keeping an Eye on Your Log Files with the System Log Viewer | |
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| Securing Your System | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Eleven Troubleshooting Tips | |
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| "The Linux Installer Froze" | |
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| For Fedora Core Users | |
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| "My Graphics Fail the Installer Test" | |
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| "The Installer Tested My Graphics Fine, but My GUI Won't Start" | |
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| "I Think I'm in Linux, but I Don't Know What to Do!" | |
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| "I Don't Want to Boot into This!" | |
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| "I Want to Use Multiple Screen Resolutions" | |
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| "My GUI Is Hung and I'm Stuck!" | |
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| "Help, my machine hangs during boot!" | |
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| "How Do I Stop Scripting Screw-Ups?" | |
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| "Aaargh! I Forgot My Root Password! What Do I Do?" | |
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| Ten Superior Sources of Linux Information | |
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| The Best-Ever Linux Resource | |
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| Keeping the Bad Guys at Bay | |
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| The Kernel's at Linux Headquarters | |
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| Everything Linux | |
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| Looking for Linux Applications? | |
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| Lifelong Learning Includes Linux | |
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| Peerless Linux Publications Online | |
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| Supporting Linux Online | |
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| Slashdot: The Creme de la Nerd | |
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| More Tips off the Linux Berg | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Common Linux Commands | |
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| Linux Commands by Function | |
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| About the DVD-ROM | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| Using the DVD-ROM | |
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| What You Find in Fedora Core 1 | |
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| If You've Got Problems (Of the DVD-ROM Kind) | |
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| Index | |