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Table of contents

Introduction ~ 1
Copyright ~ 1
About the author ~ 1
Aknowledgements ~ 1
Audience ~ 1
Organization ~ 2
Web resources ~ 2

Installation ~ 4
What this chapter covers ~ 4
Tip 1: Which distribution is good for you ~ 5
Tip 2: How to find a Linux CD-ROM at low cost ~ 6
Tip 3: Multiple operating systems ~ 7
Tip 4: Installing with no CD-ROM drive or modem ~ 8
Tip 5: Swap and memory ~ 9
Tip 6: More swap with a swap file ~ 10
Tip 7: Kernel size and modules ~ 11
Tip 8: The boot prompt ~ 12
Tip 9: Wrong memory size found ~ 13
Tip 10: Master boot record and LILO ~ 14
Tip 11: LILO can't find a kernel on a big drive ~ 15
Tip 12: X Window configuration options ~ 16
Tip 13: Allowing users to mount drives ~ 17
Tip 14: Allowing users to run root programs ~ 18
Tip 15: Linux and NT booting ~ 19
Tip 16: Annoying boot messages ~ 20
Tip 17: Programs on CD-ROM ~ 21
Tip 18: International console ~ 22
Tip 19: Multiple kernels choices ~ 23
Tip 20: Default file permissions ~ 24
Tip 21: Default boot mode ~ 25
Tip 22: More information from usenet ~ 26
Tip 23: Bytes per inodes ~ 27
Tip 24: LILO and boot problems ~ 28
Tip 25: Making CD-ROM images ~ 29
Tip 26: FTP access restrictions ~ 30

Hardware ~ 32
What this chapter covers ~ 32
Tip 1: Detecting 2 ethernet cards ~ 33
Tip 2: Everything on sound cards ~ 34
Tip 3: Non-PostScript printers ~ 35
Tip 4: Use Windows special keys in Linux ~ 36
Tip 5: Added processors ~ 37
Tip 6: Detecting an ISA device ~ 38
Tip 7: Find hardware information ~ 39
Tip 8: Blinking leds on the keyboard ~ 40
Tip 9: Reading a foreign file system ~ 41
Tip 10: Can't mount root fs ~ 42
Tip 11: Linux on a 286? ~ 43
Tip 12: Linux without a hard drive ~ 44
Tip 13: Shutdown and power off ~ 45
Tip 14: LPD started but no device found ~ 46
Tip 15: Read files from FAT32 drives ~ 47
Tip 16: TV on Linux ~ 48
Tip 17: Device drivers ~ 49
Tip 18: Mouse problems ~ 50
Tip 19: International keyboards ~ 51

Software ~ 53
What this chapter covers ~ 53
Tip 1: Background image in X Window ~ 54
Tip 2: Customize Netscape Communicator ~ 55
Tip 3: POP3 in Pine ~ 56
Tip 4: Multiple accounts in Pine ~ 57
Tip 5: Running Java programs ~ 58
Tip 6: Virtual hosts in Apache ~ 59
Tip 7: Libc versus Glibc ~ 60
Tip 8: Aliases with Qmail ~ 61
Tip 9: Samba with Windows 98 or NT 4 ~ 62
Tip 10: KDE drag and drop icons ~ 63
Tip 11: Find files ~ 64
Tip 12: asm or linux include files not found ~ 65
Tip 13: ICQ on Linux ~ 66
Tip 14: Reading foreign documents ~ 67
Tip 15: Scanning with Linux ~ 68
Tip 16: Real audio and video ~ 69
Tip 17: Emulation ~ 70
Tip 18: Shared library not found ~ 71
Tip 19: Hard to erase files ~ 72
Tip 20: Files permissions ~ 73
Tip 21: Changing file permissions ~ 74
Tip 22: An international background ~ 75
Tip 23: Powerful file transfer system ~ 76
Tip 24: Editing in text editors ~ 77
Tip 25: Documentation and manual ~ 78

Networking ~ 80
What this chapter covers ~ 80
Tip 1: Easy PPP dialup ~ 81
Tip 2: Internet for your LAN ~ 82
Tip 3: Domains to search in ~ 83
Tip 4: Display IP rather than hostname ~ 84
Tip 5: Is my modem a winmodem? ~ 85
Tip 6: Sharing files from a Windows system ~ 86
Tip 7: Sorry but this host is not in my list ~ 87
Tip 8: Access to various networks ~ 88
Tip 9: Accessing remote file systems ~ 89
Tip 10: Secure Web server ~ 90
Tip 11: Secure alternative to telnet ~ 91
Tip 12: Speed problems on a PPP connection ~ 92
Tip 13: Names and name servers ~ 93
Tip 14: Who owns this port ~ 94
Tip 15: Network printers ~ 95

Development ~ 97
What this chapter covers ~ 97
Tip 1: Graphical messages to the world ~ 98
Tip 2: Code reuse ~ 99
Tip 3: Makefile don't equal C ~ 100
Tip 4: Parsing the command line in BASH ~ 101
Tip 5: Don't grep grep ~ 102
Tip 6: Move a text into upper case letters ~ 103
Tip 7: Using PASCAL on Linux ~ 104
Tip 8: Segmentation fault ~ 105
Tip 9: Who is online? ~ 106
Tip 10: Graphical toolkits ~ 107
Tip 11: IDE and visual interfaces ~ 108
Tip 12: Free software and copyleft ~ 109
Tip 13: Talking to the terminal ~ 110
Tip 14: Internet technologies ~ 111
Tip 15: Library types ~ 112