Moving to Linux

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 1. Welcome to the Linux universe, one and all! Welcome also to this, the second edition of MOVING TO LINUX: KISS THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH GOODBYE! Trying to pin down when somethin...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 2. An to the WFTL Edition Knoppix Disk Included with this book is a full-featured Linux distribution that runs entirely from the CD-ROM. The WFTL Edition Knoppix CD is a Debian-base...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 3. Ready . . . Set . . . Linux! Ready for some serious fun? Your Linux adventure is about to begin. You may have chosen to try things out using the bootable Knoppix CD, but at some...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 4. Getting Your Hands Dirty Welcome to the multiuser, multitasking, multieverything world. Linux is designed to run multiple users and processes concurrently. What that means is that...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 5. Konquering Your World Anyone who has ever had a system crash without a handy backup of his or her files knows that nothing is more important than data. Other than playing games (a...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 6. Customizing Your Desktop (or Making Your World Your Own) After having taken the first steps into the Linux world, you are probably thinking, quot;Hey, this is pretty easyquot; and...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 7. Installing New Applications The average Linux distribution CD comes with several gigabytes of software. SuSE, for one, delivers several CDs in a boxed set with enough software to...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 8. Printers and Other Hardware Ah, hardware . . . quot;I hate hardware!quot; Part of the personal computer experience seems destined to be an eternal battle in getting your current...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 9. Connecting to the Internet I'm going to start this chapter with a little Networking 101. It will be fun—really. Those of you who already know everything about TCP/IP and how IP ne...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 10. Surfing the Internet When it comes to Web browsers on the desktop, Linux users are faced with an embarrassment of riches, with plenty of alternatives to choose from. For those wh...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 11. Electronic Mail Clients These days, it seems that when we think about the Internet, we think about Web browsers first. To those of us who have been on the Net for more years than...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 12. Getting Organized It is sometimes hard for me to fathom as I look at the piles of papers, books, cables, devices, and toys scattered across my desk that computers have helped in...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 13. Word Processors (It Was a Dark and Stormy Night . . .) Sorry, but at some point I just had to use that famous opening from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's quot;Paul Cliffordquot; (...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 14. Spreadsheets (Tables You Can Count On) A spreadsheet, for those who might be curious, allows an individual to organize data onto a table made up of rows and columns. The intersec...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 15. Presentation Graphics (For Those Who Need No ) Once upon a time, even a simple business presentation could be quite a costly affair. The person putting together a presentation wo...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 16. Digital Photography Then we have digital cameras. In the world of your old OS, you needed special software to work with your particular camera. In the Linux world, you can do it...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 17. Digital Art with the GIMP Oddly enough, applications allowing users to work with graphics are among some of the most highly developed in the world. To see the truth in this rathe...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 18. Linux Multimedia (If Music Be the Food of Love . . .) Playing music on your Linux system is only the beginning of the multimedia experience. After all, multimedia isn't about jus...

lt; Day Day Up gt; Chapter 19. Fun and Games (Very Serious Fun) There's plenty to smile about when it comes to taking a little downtime with your Linux system. A default KDE installation comes with a number of...