USING YOUR INSTALLED LINUX SYSTEM

 Common Linux Tasks  Installing Custom Packages  Common GUI Applications  Command Line Shell  Directory Structure/Navigation Pt.1  Directory Structure/Navigation Pt.2 (Difference with Windows) COMPONENTS

COMMON LINUX TASKS Touring your desktop environment Checking out your home folder Change some preferences Configure your panel

INSTALLING AND USING CUSTOM PACKAGES (APPLICATIONS) Setup Yum Locally to install from Media Installing software using rpm and source Starting applications from a menu Starting applications from a Run Program window Starting applications from a Terminal window

COMMON GUI APPLICATIONS Table 5-1: Windows-Equivalent Linux Applications Windows-Equivalent Linux Applications Windows ApplicationsLinux Applications Microsoft Office (office productivity suite)OpenOffice (openoffice.org) Koffice Microsoft Word (word processor)OpenOffice Writer abiWord kword Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet)OpenOffice Calc gnumeric kspread Microsoft Powerpoint (presentation)OpenOffice Impress kpresenter Microsoft Internet Explorer (Web browser) mozilla epiphany konqueror opera Microsoft Outlook ( reader)evolution kmail Mozilla Mail Adobe Photoshop (image editor)The Gimp (gimp) Quicken or Microsoft Moneygnucash

COMMAND LINE SHELL Accessing the shell No GUI A Terminal window Checking your login session  id  who  whoami Checking directories and permissions  pwd  ls  echo $HOME Checking system activity  ps -aux

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE/NAVIGATION PT.1 /bin — Contains common Linux user commands, such as ls, sort, date, and chmod. /boot — Has the bootable Linux kernel and boot loader configuration files (GRUB). /dev — Contains files representing access points to devices on your systems. /etc — Contains administrative configuration files. /home — Contains directories assigned to each user with a login account. /mnt — Provides a location for mounting devices, such as remote file systems and removable media. /root — Represents the root user's home directory. /sbin — Contains administrative commands and daemon processes. /tmp — Contains temporary files used by applications. /usr — Contains user documentation, games, graphical files (X11), libraries (lib). /var — Contains directories of data used by various applications.

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE/NAVIGATION PT.2 (DIFFERENCE WITH WINDOWS) Windows Linux C:\home\chris/home/chris Filenames almost always have suffixes in DOS (.txt).Makes no required meaning. DOS and MS Windows began as single-user systems; file ownership was not built into those systems when they were designed. Every file and directory in a Linux system has permissions and ownership associated with it.