Table Of Contents

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"The No B.S. Guide to RED HAT Linux"

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION (full text online)

- What's So Great About Linux?
- Brief overview & history of Unix and Linux 

CHAPTER 1 - Installing Linux on your PC

- System requirements
- Installation procedures 

CHAPTER 2 - GNOME: The Linux GUI

- Configuring for your hardware
- Navigating the graphical interface
- GNOME applications supplied on the CD-ROM 

CHAPTER 3 - Connecting to the Internet

- Connecting to the Net with a modem
- Text and graphical tools to access the Internet
- Setting up a web server
- Registering a domain name
- Options for connectivity 

CHAPTER 4 - Living in a Shell (full text online)

- Logging in and out
- Basics of the command shell 

CHAPTER 5 - The Linux File System

- Understanding & navigating tree-structured directories
- Organizing and managing your files 

CHAPTER 6 - Important Linux Commands

- Useful commands every Linux user should know 

CHAPTER 7 - Text Editors

- Using Pico, Emacs, and Vi 

CHAPTER 8 - Slicing & Dicing

- Useful utilities for manipulating files
- Using find, sort, cut, head, grep and awk

CHAPTER 9 - Rolling Your Own: Linux Programming

- Writing your own shell scripts
- Perl, C++, and other programming tools 

CHAPTER 10 - Managing Your E-Mail

- E-mail addressing, netiquette
- Reading & sending e-mail
- Using mail and pine 

CHAPTER 11 - Compression, Encoding, and Encryption

- File compression and decompression utilities
- Using tar, gzip, compress and friends 

CHAPTER 12 - Linux Does DOS and Windows

- Accessing DOS floppies with Mtools
- Accessing DOS partitions on your hard disk
- Running DOS programs with DOSemu
- Running Windows programs with Wine and VMWare 

CHAPTER 13 - Tweaking Linux

- Finding software for Linux
- Linux search engines
- Linux BBS's, newsgroups, mailing lists and web sites 

CHAPTER 14 - Updating Linux Your Linux System: RPM

- Finding software for Linux
- Linux search engines
- Linux BBS's, newsgroups, mailing lists and web sites 

CHAPTER 15 - Learning More About Linux

- Finding software for Linux
- Linux search engines
- Linux BBS's, newsgroups, mailing lists and web sites 

Appendix A - What's On The CD-ROM?

Appendix B - Table of DOS and Unix Equivalences

Appendix C - The GNU General Public License

Glossary

Index

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