100 Linux Tips and Tricks

Lambert P.

This book was written for anyone using Linux, from new users to experts who want to explore this wonderful operating system. The tips and tricks in this book were discovered by myself over years of experience using Linux, and learning about it. Some are very basic tips to make your computing life easier, others are advanced tricks that can save you days of work.I tried to cover all distributions of Linux in this book. I personaly use Slackware and RedHat on PC systems. If you find any error in the book, feel free to contact me so a future second edition could correct them.

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents……Page 2
Audience……Page 5
Web resources……Page 6
What this chapter covers……Page 8
Tip 1: Which distribution is good for you……Page 9
Tip 2: How to find a Linux CD-ROM at low cost……Page 10
Tip 3: Multiple operating systems……Page 11
Tip 4: Installing with no CD-ROM drive or modem……Page 12
Tip 5: Swap and memory……Page 13
Tip 6: More swap with a swap file……Page 14
Tip 7: Kernel size and modules……Page 15
Tip 8: The boot prompt……Page 16
Tip 9: Wrong memory size found……Page 17
Tip 10: Master boot record and LILO……Page 18
Tip 11: LILO can’t find a kernel on a big drive……Page 19
Tip 12: X Window configuration options……Page 20
Tip 13: Allowing users to mount drives……Page 21
Tip 14: Allowing users to run root programs……Page 22
Tip 15: Linux and NT booting……Page 23
Tip 16: Annoying boot messages……Page 24
Tip 17: Programs on CD-ROM……Page 25
Tip 18: International console……Page 26
Tip 19: Multiple kernels choices……Page 27
Tip 20: Default file permissions……Page 28
Tip 21: Default boot mode……Page 29
Tip 22: More information from usenet……Page 30
Tip 23: Bytes per inodes……Page 31
Tip 24: LILO and boot problems……Page 32
Tip 25: Making CD-ROM images……Page 33
Tip 26: FTP access restrictions……Page 34
What this chapter covers……Page 36
Tip 1: Detecting 2 ethernet cards……Page 37
Tip 2: Everything on sound cards……Page 38
Tip 3: Non-PostScript printers……Page 39
Tip 4: Use Windows special keys in Linux……Page 40
Tip 5: Added processors……Page 41
Tip 6: Detecting an ISA device……Page 42
Tip 7: Find hardware information……Page 43
Tip 8: Blinking leds on the keyboard……Page 44
Tip 9: Reading a foreign file system……Page 45
Tip 10: Can’t mount root fs……Page 46
Tip 11: Linux on a 286?……Page 47
Tip 12: Linux without a hard drive……Page 48
Tip 13: Shutdown and power off……Page 49
Tip 14: LPD started but no device found……Page 50
Tip 15: Read files from FAT32 drives……Page 51
Tip 16: TV on Linux……Page 52
Tip 17: Device drivers……Page 53
Tip 18: Mouse problems……Page 54
Tip 19: International keyboards……Page 55
What this chapter covers……Page 57
Tip 1: Background image in X Window……Page 58
Tip 2: Customize Netscape Communicator……Page 59
Tip 3: POP3 in Pine……Page 60
Tip 4: Multiple accounts in Pine……Page 61
Tip 5: Running Java programs……Page 62
Tip 6: Virtual hosts in Apache……Page 63
Tip 7: Libc versus Glibc……Page 64
Tip 8: Aliases with Qmail……Page 65
Tip 9: Samba with Windows 98 or NT 4……Page 66
Tip 10: KDE drag and drop icons……Page 67
Tip 11: Find files……Page 68
Tip 12: asm or linux include files not found……Page 69
Tip 13: ICQ on Linux……Page 70
Tip 14: Reading foreign documents……Page 71
Tip 15: Scanning with Linux……Page 72
Tip 16: Real audio and video……Page 73
Tip 17: Emulation……Page 74
Tip 18: Shared library not found……Page 75
Tip 19: Hard to erase files……Page 76
Tip 20: Files permissions……Page 77
Tip 21: Changing file permissions……Page 78
Tip 22: An international background……Page 79
Tip 23: Powerful file transfer system……Page 80
Tip 24: Editing in text editors……Page 81
Tip 25: Documentation and manual……Page 82
What this chapter covers……Page 84
Tip 1: Easy PPP dialup……Page 85
Tip 2: Internet for your LAN……Page 86
Tip 3: Domains to search in……Page 87
Tip 4: Display IP rather than hostname……Page 88
Tip 5: Is my modem a winmodem?……Page 89
Tip 6: Sharing files from a Windows system……Page 90
Tip 7: Sorry but this host is not in my list……Page 91
Tip 8: Access to various networks……Page 92
Tip 9: Accessing remote file systems……Page 93
Tip 10: Secure Web server……Page 94
Tip 11: Secure alternative to telnet……Page 95
Tip 12: Speed problems on a PPP connection……Page 96
Tip 13: Names and name servers……Page 97
Tip 14: Who owns this port……Page 98
Tip 15: Network printers……Page 99
What this chapter covers……Page 101
Tip 1: Graphical messages to the world……Page 102
Tip 2: Code reuse……Page 103
Tip 3: Makefile don’t equal C……Page 104
Tip 4: Parsing the command line in BASH……Page 105
Tip 5: Don’t grep grep……Page 106
Tip 6: Move a text into upper case letters……Page 107
Tip 7: Using PASCAL on Linux……Page 108
Tip 8: Segmentation fault……Page 109
Tip 9: Who is online?……Page 110
Tip 10: Graphical toolkits……Page 111
Tip 11: IDE and visual interfaces……Page 112
Tip 12: Free software and copyleft……Page 113
Tip 13: Talking to the terminal……Page 114
Tip 14: Internet technologies……Page 115
Tip 15: Library types……Page 116