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GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
This book is made available in the hope that it serves as a useful resource for users of GNU/Linux in general and Debian in particular.
The procedures and applications presented in this book have been included for their instructional value. They have been tested but are not guaranteed for any particular purpose. The publisher, Togaware.com, does not offer any warranties or representations, nor does it accept any liabilities with respect to the programs and applications.
The Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide covers many topics. This is an ongoing work and the varying depth of coverage of different topics indicates this! The book is organised alphabetically over very many separate HTML pages. The top level topics are listed below. A PDF version, as a single document (over 700 pages) is available from Togaware.
- Preface
- Advocacy
- History: Unix, GNU, Gnome
- Distributions
- Installation
- Basic Survival
- Wajig: Packages and Administration
- Audio
- AbiWord: Word Processor
- APM: Power Management
- Backup
- Bash: Command Line
- Booting
- Cameras
- CD: Reading and Writing
- Chinese
- ChRoot: Multiple Distributions
- Clock: An Explanation
- Commercial
- Conference Management
- Configuration
- CRON: Regular Tasks
- CVS: Concurrent Versioning
- Databases
- DIA: Charts and Diagrams
- Directories: Linux Folders
- Disks
- Documentation
- DVD
- Emacs
- Eye of Gnome: Image Viewer
- Evolution: Groupware
- File Systems
- Firewalls
- Floppy Disks
- Fonts: X Window System
- Ghemical: Chemical Modelling
- GIMP: Image and Photo Manipulation
- Glade: GUI Builder
- Gnome: The Desktop
- GnuCash: Finances
- Gnumeric: Spreadsheet
- GQView: Viewing Images
- Graphics
- Groups: Managing Access Permissions
- HTML Editors
- ImageMagick
- Initialisations on Booting
- Java
- KDE: Desktop Management
- Kernels
- Keyboard
- Konqueror: The KDE File Manager
- KVM Switch
- LaTeX
- Log System
- Login
- Magellan: KDE Personal Information Manager
- Mathematics
- Memory
- Modems
- Mounting Devices
- MS/Windows
- Music
- MySQL
- Nautilus: Navigating Folders--Near and Far
- Networks
- NFS: Network File System
- NT File System
- OpenOffice.org
- Oracle: Database for Debian
- Packages: Debian Style
- Partitions
- Passwords
- PDF: Document Viewing and Annotaion
- Photos
- PPP: Networking Over Modems
- Presentations
- Printing
- Python
- R: Statistical Software
- Remote Desktops
- Rsync: Remote Files
- Samba
- Scanning
- Science
- Security
- SH File System
- Sketch
- Spell
- SPlus: Statistical Software
- Spruce: Email
- SSH: Secure Communications
- SUDO: Root Access
- Subversion
- Swap
- Themes
- TV
- USB
- Video
- Virtualization
- Voice over IP
- Web: Browsing, Serving, and Mirroring
- WebCam
- Word: Processing and Printing
- X: The Window System
- XML
- Sample Installations
- Troubleshooting
- Index
This document is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), or under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 2.0 or later (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), at your option. Permission is granted to copy and distribute this work, with or without modification, in any medium, provided this copyright notice and notice of any changes is attached.
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| 3 months ago |
dustin_bess |
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| 8 months ago |
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