GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
Desktop Survival Project Home Preface Advocacy History Distributions Installation Basic Survival Wajig Audio AbiWord APM Backup Bash Booting Cameras CD Chinese ChRoot Clock Commercial Conference Management Configuration CRON CVS Databases DIA Directories Disks Documentation DVD Email Eye of Gnome Evolution File Systems Firewalls Floppy Disks Fonts Ghemical GIMP Glade Gnome GnuCash Gnumeric GQView Graphics Groups HTML Editors ImageMagick Initialisations on Booting Java KDE Kernels Keyboard Konqueror KVM Switch LaTeX Log System Login Magellan Mathematics Memory Modems Mounting Devices MS/Windows Music MySQL Nautilus Networks NFS NT File System OpenOffice.org Oracle Packages Partitions Passwords PDF Photos PPP Presentations Printing Python R Remote Desktops Rsync Samba Scanning Science Security SH File System Sketch Spell SPlus Spruce SSH SUDO Subversion Swap Themes USB Video Virtualization Web Word X XML Sample Installations Troubleshooting Index

Contents

The Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide covers many topics. This is an ongoing work and the varying depth of coverage of different topics indicates this! The book is organised alphabetically over very many separate HTML pages. The top level topics are listed below. A PDF version, as a single document (over 700 pages) is available from Togaware.

• Preface
• Advocacy
• History: Unix, GNU, Gnome
• Distributions
• Installation
• Basic Survival
• Wajig: Packages and Administration
• Audio
• AbiWord: Word Processor
• APM: Power Management
• Backup
• Bash: Command Line
• Booting
• Cameras
• CD: Reading and Writing
• Chinese
• ChRoot: Multiple Distributions
• Clock: An Explanation
• Commercial
• Conference Management
• Configuration
• CRON: Regular Tasks
• CVS: Concurrent Versioning
• Databases
• DIA: Charts and Diagrams
• Directories: Linux Folders
• Disks
• Documentation
• DVD
• Email
• Eye of Gnome: Image Viewer
• Evolution: Groupware
• File Systems
• Firewalls
• Floppy Disks
• Fonts: X Window System
• Ghemical: Chemical Modelling
• GIMP: Image and Photo Manipulation
• Glade: GUI Builder
• Gnome: The Desktop
• GnuCash: Finances
• Gnumeric: Spreadsheet
• GQView: Viewing Images
• Graphics
• Groups: Managing Access Permissions
• HTML Editors
• ImageMagick
• Initialisations on Booting
• Java
• KDE: Desktop Management
• Kernels
• Keyboard
• Konqueror: The KDE File Manager
• KVM Switch
• LaTeX
• Log System
• Login
• Magellan: KDE Personal Information Manager
• Mathematics
• Memory
• Modems
• Mounting Devices
• MS/Windows
• Music
• MySQL
• Nautilus: Navigating Folders--Near and Far
• Networks
• NFS: Network File System
• NT File System
• OpenOffice.org
• Oracle: Database for Debian
• Packages: Debian Style
• Partitions
• Passwords
• PDF: Document Viewing and Annotaion
• Photos
• PPP: Networking Over Modems
• Presentations
• Printing
• Python
• R: Statistical Software
• Remote Desktops
• Rsync: Remote Files
• Samba
• Scanning
• Science
• Security
• SH File System
• Sketch
• Spell
• SPlus: Statistical Software
• Spruce: Email
• SSH: Secure Communications
• SUDO: Root Access
• Subversion
• Swap
• Themes
• USB
• Video
• Virtualization
• Web: Browsing, Serving, and Mirroring
• Word: Processing and Printing
• X: The Window System
• XML
• Sample Installations
• Troubleshooting
• Index