Introduction History Why linux? Filesystem Linux desktop environments Root & normal users

Installation Live and Install media Partitioning Hardware drivers Package selection Users

System boot Boot loader Kernel & initrd loading Init Virtual terminals Shell: introduction Different shells Shell and system commands Gnome & KDE

Working with Files and Directories ls Short options Long options wildcards cd mkdir/rmdir cp mv rm

Getting Help Man Info Whatis --help Linux websites/forums IRC LUG Mailing lists

Permissions Introduction Ls -l meaning Chmod Chown Chgrp

X.org Introduction Killing ScreenSavers Locking

Internet Firefox Thunderbird Evolution Kmail/Konqueror/...

Multimedia Ogg, mp3, mpeg, ... Volume control Amarok SMPlayer VLC Kaffeine RealPlayer Totem Rhythmbox

Office suits & others applications OpenOffice.org Koffice Gnome Office: Abi Word, gnumeric, planner, evolution, dia Gnucash Octave & QtOctave K3b & brasero Games Wine System monitor Top Dictionary File archiving, extraction

Graphics GIMP Blender screenshot

System Settings (GUI) User management Selinux Services Samba Root password Printing Lvm Language Firewall Date & time Boot loader Authentication

Package Management Rpm Yum Rpmfusion Codecs Video drivers Wifi drivers others Source!

Programming gcc/g++ Make Eclipse Kdevelop QtDesigner

Pipes and Redirections >, >>, < | Embeding commands: `` Grep Sed? mount/unmount Fstab, mtab Tar, zip

Working with Files Cat, tac head,tail Wc Sort Uniq Ln

Text Editors Gedit, kwrite Vim Modes Basic commands: w,x,q,q!,u-r Emacs Nano

Other Df, du Echo, environment variables Pwd Kill Date Uptime Less, more

Runlevels/services init/telinit Default runlevel inittab /etc/init.d/ /etc/rc.d/ Service System->Administration->Services

Network Connection wired/wireless Ifconfig Iwconfig Iwlist ifup/ifdown System-config-network NetworkManager ndiswrapper Ping Modem Scanmodem linmodems.org