Before reading the following article, please note: This "article" is a JOKE and has absolutely nothing to do with the real Linux XP distro. I have never used Linux XP myself and have absolutely no idea what that distro is like. I wrote this joke article many years ago, when there was no Linux distro called "Linux XP." Therefore, this article has nothing to do with that distro....
There is no official, commercial support for Linux, so you have to rely on the other Linux users if you need help. You go to a Linux discussion forum full of geeks who are full of themselves because they're so 1337 they know how to use Linux. You ask a very basic newbie question, and one of those 1337 Linux h4x0rz tells you to RTFM. Then you spend the rest of the day trying to find out what RTFM...
Maybe the most important thing is to post in the right forum or mailing list. For example, if you have a problem with your printer, it's no use posting your question in an X Window forum. People who are reading an X Window forum are interested in discussing things related to X, not printers. Your post is likely to be ignored, or even worse, you may get flamed. In a hardware forum people are more...
There's a file called /etc/fstab in your Linux system. Learn what its contents mean and how it's used in conjunction with the mount command. When you learn to understand the fstab file, you'll be able to edit its contents yourself, too.
As you know, you can store your data in different physical storage devices, like floppies, CD-ROMs, and hard disk drives. Your hard disk or disks are also very likely split up into different partitions with different filesystems.If you're migrating to Linux from Microsoft Windows, you're probably used to accessing all your filesystems very easily: you just boot up your puter, go to My Computer,...
As you may have noticed, Linux organizes its files differently from Windows. First the directory structure may seem unlogical and strange and you have no idea where all the programs, icons, config files, and others are. This file will take you to a guided tour through the Linux file system. This is by no means a complete list of all the directories on Linux, but it shows you the most interesting...
You can change the owner and group of a file or a directory with the chown command. Please, keep in mind you can do this only if you are the root user or the owner of the file.
If you can't access some of the files on your very own Linux system, it's usually because of misconfigured file access permissions. If you are the only user on your Linux box, you may be wondering what's the point of having all these permissions (or lack thereof) that restrict your access to your very own penguin OS. However, before pulling your hair off, you must keep in mind Linux is designed to...
Maybe you've already noticed that the package containing the source code of the program has a tar.gz or a tar.bz2 extension. This means that the package is a compressed tar archive, also known as a tarball. When making the package, the source code and the other needed files were piled together in a single tar archive, hence the tar extension. After piling them all together in the tar archive, the...
RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager. However, these days RPM isn't only Red Hat specific because many other Linux distros use RPM for managing their software. For example, both Mandriva and SuSE use RPM for software management. With RPM, you can install, upgrade and uninstall software on Linux, as well as keep track of already installed RPM packages on your system. This can be done because RPM...
There are two ways to start the first X session: you either start the X Window System manually after logging in, or X starts automatically when your Linux system boots up. If your system is configured to start X automatically, you don't have to worry about the first X session: it's already running.
Booting to X Windows, so you can have a graphical login in Linux, is a very simple thing to do. Or, disabling the X Window System from starting at bootup, so you'll have a text login, is just as simple. Maybe your distro provides some fancy GUI tools for configuring this, but here I'll concentrate on the fool-proof method that doesn't need any weird config tools and thus works on any Linux distro:...
Alright, you've installed a really fancy new window manager and want to try it out? If you're booting to command line and starting X manually with the startx command, you're probably wondering how to make that new fancy window manager your default. Or, if you use xdm as your display manager, you're probably wondering the same thing because it doesn't provide you with any menu that lets you change...
Microsoft Windows is based on a graphical user interface (GUI for short) where you can control the apps by pointing and clicking. But Linux, just like Unix or MS-DOS, is completely text based. This means that everything in Linux can be done without any GUI, and it's a plus when using Linux, for example, as a server because the computer's resources aren't wasted in running a GUI. However, most of...
If you're wondering how some command is used, or if you want more info about a particular command, you don't usually have to search for some text file that contains the help you need. You can read the reference manual for a command by simply typing man, and giving the name of the desired command as an argument to it. Yes, it really is so simple! Almost every command on a Linux system has a manual...
There are several keyboard shortcuts in Linux. Learning them can make your life a lot easier! This tuXfile discusses mainly command line shortcuts, but some X Window System shortcuts are also included
A small Linux cheat sheet, introducing the very basic and very essential commands for surviving at the Linux CLI.
Many Linux commands print their output to screen. For example, ls does this when it lists the contents of a directory: you see the output, the directory listing, on your screen. cat does the same: it concatenates a file and sends the results to your screen, and thus you can see the file's contents. But the screen isn't the only place where the commands can print their output because you can...
Wildcards are a shell feature that makes the command line much more powerful than any GUI file managers. You see, if you want to select a big group of files in a graphical file manager, you usually have to select them with your mouse. This may seem simple, but in some cases it can be very frustrating. For example, suppose you have a directory with a huge amount of all kinds of files and...
Automatic file name completion is one of the most useful features of the Linux command line. You don't have to type or even remember long file names at the Linux CLI - just press the Tab key and the shell does the typing for you!
How to create, move, and delete directories in Linux with the mkdir, mv, and rmdir commands. You'll also learn how to copy a directory recursively and how to remove a directory that is not empty.
How to use the Linux command line as a file manager. Learn how to copy, move, and delete files under Linux with the cp, mv, and rm commands.
Many files on a Linux system are files that are human readable and can be viewed as text. For example, shell scripts are just simple text files, as well as many of the important configuration files that can be edited by hand. This is why Linux provides many ways of editing and viewing text files, but here I'll concentrate on cat and less.
First of all, keep in mind that file names are case sensitive. This means that WeirdFile isn't the same thing as weirdfile or WEIRDFILE. Linux doesn't use file name extensions like MS Windows does. You can name all your files the way you want, because the type and purpose of the file are determined different ways. Of course you can use file name extensions if it helps you to see more quickly what...
Like in MS Windows, the files on a Linux system are arranged in a hierarchial directory structure. This means that the files are organized the same way as in Windows: in a tree-like pattern of directories (or folders in windowspeak), and those directories may contain files or other directories, which in turn may contain more files or directories, and so on...However, there are many directory trees...
