Preface |
Introduction / Chapter 1: |
Is Linux Really FREE? |
The GPL |
So What Do I Gain? |
Security |
Stability |
Power |
Money |
Freedom from Legal Hassles |
What Do I Lose? |
Hardware and Peripheral Support |
Software Packages |
A Step into the Unknown |
Some Tips on Using This Book |
Quick Tips and Shelling Out |
Meet Your Desktop |
Help Me! |
The Linux Documentation Project |
Linux User Groups |
About the CD |
It's My Philosophy |
Resources |
An Introduction to the WFTL Edition Knoppix Disk / Chapter 2: |
Ready to Try Linux? |
Playing with WFTL Knoppix |
Just Looking Around |
Configure Now, Remember Me Later |
The Persistence of Memory |
Setting Up the Network |
HELP! |
What About the Root Password? |
What If My System Can't Boot from the CD-ROM? |
Can I Install the WFTL Edition Knoppix on My Hard Disk? |
Remember to Share |
Ready... Set... Linux! / Chapter 3: |
Getting Linux |
Getting a Free Copy of Linux |
Package Managers and Updates |
Dual Booting |
Preserving Your Data |
A Linux-Only System |
Windows on Linux |
VMware |
Win4Lin |
Breaking Free! |
Getting Your Hands Dirty / Chapter 4: |
Getting to Know You... KDE |
A Few Words about X |
Logging In |
Click Here! Click Here! |
Becoming One with the Desktop |
Your First Application |
Windows, Title Bars, and Menus, Oh My! |
The Title Bar |
On to the Menu Bar |
Resizing Windows |
Command Central |
A Polite Introduction to the Command Line |
Give Me More! |
Changing Your Password |
User Security |
I Need More Help! |
Konqueror and man Pages |
Konquest of the Desktop |
Konquering Your World / Chapter 5: |
Files, Directories, and the Root of All Things |
Wherever You Go... |
Navigating the Navigation Panel |
Enhancing Konqueror |
Uh, Roger, Copy That... |
Creating New Folders |
"I've Changed My Mind," or Renaming Files |
Copying Files and Directories (and Moving, Too!) |
Wait! What about Links? |
Which Brings Us to Permissions |
Deleting Files and Directories |
My World, My Way |
Making Your Home a Home |
Customizing Your Desktop (or Making Your World Your Own) / Chapter 6: |
I Am Sovereign of All I Survey... |
Changing the Background |
Save My Screen, Please! |
Moving Things Around |
Is That a Theme or a Motif? |
Window Decorations |
Themes and Styles |
Adding Icons and Shortcuts to Your Desktop |
Miscellaneous Changes |
Installing New Applications / Chapter 7: |
Linux and Security |
The Many Faces of Software Installation |
SuSE Software Package Installs |
Mandrake's urpmi |
Mandrake's urpmi Made Even Easier |
Searching for Common Ground |
Kpackage |
Installing Packages |
Dealing with Dependencies |
RPMs, the Shell Way |
Look, Use the Source... |
The Extract and Build Five-Step |
Step 1: Unpacking the Archive |
Steps 2-5: Building Your Programs |
README, Please! |
Getting Your Hands on Software |
Printers and Other Hardware / Chapter 8: |
Yes, It Runs with Linux! |
Plug and Play |
Getting Familiar with Your Hardware |
PCI Devices |
USB Devices |
Printers and Printing |
Kprinter |
Modems versus Winmodems |
The Winmodem/Linmodem Roundup |
What? More Devices? |
Connecting to the Internet / Chapter 9: |
Before You Begin |
Getting on the Net |
Connecting to the Net with a Modem |
Cable Modems and High-Speed DSL |
Okay, I'm Connected. Now What? |
Why Jabber? |
Kopete |
Adding Kopete Contacts |
Surfing the Internet / Chapter 10: |
Konqueror |
Page Home for Me... |
Cool Konqueror Tricks |
Split Views |
Super-Speedy Searches |
Go for the Big Screen |
Yum... Cookies |
Ban the Pop-Ups Forever! |
Keeping Tabs on the Web |
Mozilla Firefox |
Working from Home |
Firefox Does Tabs, Too |
Still Don't Like Pop-Up Ads? |
Controlling Cookies |
The Firefox Sidebar |
Wrapping Up |
Electronic Mail Clients / Chapter 11: |
Be Prepared... |
Kontact |
First Kontact |
KMail |
The Importance of Being Networked |
Let's Communicate! |
Receiving Mail |
Your Little Black Book |
Attached to You... |
Send Now or Later |
Evolution |
Sending and Receiving Mail |
What to Use? |
Other Options |
Getting Organized / Chapter 12: |
KOrganizer |
Adding an Event |
So Much To Do... |
Printing Your Calendar |
Wow! Deja Vu: Recurring Events |
Inviting Others to an Event |
What Happens When You Get Invited? |
Importing Calendars |
Creating Appointments |
Let's Do That Again: Evolution Recurrence |
The Makings of a Meeting |
Tasks and Other To-Dos |
Other Tools |
Word Processors (It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...) / Chapter 13: |
OpenOffice.org Writer |
Write Now! |
The Hunt for Typos |
What Language Is That? |
Saving Your Work |
Printing Your Document |
Toolbars of Every Kind... |
Help! |
To Word or Not to Word? |
Personalizing Your Environment |
A Wizard of Words |
Navigating Style |
Navigating the Rivers of Text |
Speaking of Document Elements... |
More! Give Me More! |
Spreadsheets (Tables You Can Count On) / Chapter 14: |
Starting a New Spreadsheet and Entering Data |
Basic Math |
Complex Charts and Graphs, Oh My! |
Magical Totals |
Nice, Colorful, Impressive, and Dynamic Graphs |
Final Touches |
A Beautiful Thing! |
Alternatives |
Presentation Graphics (For Those Who Need No Introduction) / Chapter 15: |
Getting Ready to Impress |
Inserting Slides |
Adding Color |
Printing Your Presentation |
Instant Web Presentations |
How About a Little Flash? Shocking! |
So What's with the Penguin? |
Extra! Extra! |
Digital Photography / Chapter 16: |
Working with a Digital Camera |
Picture-Perfect Konqueror |
Picture-Perfect digiKam |
Configuring Your Digital Camera |
What About Those Tags? |
But Wait-There's More! |
Scanning... |
Scanning under KDE-Kooka |
Optical Character Recognition |
Digital Art with the GIMP / Chapter 17: |
Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your GIMP |
Easy Logos with the GIMP |
Saving and Opening Your Work |
Printing Your Masterpiece |
Tools, Tools, and More Tools |
Now, on to the Tool Icons |
Touching Up Photographs |
So What Is Script-Fu? |
Linux Multimedia (If Music Be the Food of Love...) / Chapter 18: |
Adjusting the Levels |
KsCD, the KDE CD Player |
XMMS |
XMMS Lightshows |
Skinning XMMS |
Noatun |
Skinning Noatun |
Noatun Lightshows! |
Ripping and Burning Songs |
Intermezzo: Digital Audio Formats |
KAudioCreator |
K3b, for a Friendlier Burn |
Getting Familiar with K3b |
Backing Up Your Data with K3b |
Did Someone Say "Backups"? |
Creating a Music CD with K3b |
Put Another Nickel In... |
Juk |
Rockin' On with amaroK |
Lights, Camera, Action: Moving Pictures |
A Note on Encrypted DVDs |
It's a Wrap! |
Fun and Games (Very Serious Fun) / Chapter 19: |
Take Me Out to the Arcade |
Cubes and Things That Drop |
Deal Those Cards, Ace |
B-4. Miss. E-7. Hit! |
Educational Games |
KStars |
Learn to Type |
That Potato Guy |
The Edutainment Pack |
3D Accelerated Fun |
FlightGear |
TuxRacer |
Need a Belly Rub? |
The 13-Year-Old's Picks |
More Games! I Need More Games! |
The GNU General Public License / Appendix A: |
GNU General Public License |
Preamble |
GNU General Public License Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution, and Modification |
No Warranty |
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs |
Installation / Appendix B: |
Getting Ready for Your Installation |
Hardware Considerations |
Dual Booting Revisited |
A Sample FIPS Session |
An Installation Comparison |
A Very Generic Install |
A Mandrake Linux Install |
Putting On the Fedora |
A SuSE Install |
Xandros Desktop OS, Version 3.0 Deluxe |
Not-So-Tough Installs |
Starting and Stopping Linux |
Taking Command of Linux / Appendix C: |
Linux Commands: An Easy Start |
Working with Files |
File-Naming Conventions |
Listing Files with Emotion! |
A Peek at Metacharacters |
File Permissions in the Shell |
Not-So-Hidden Files |
Strange Filenames That Just Won't Go Away |
More on rm (or "Oops! I Didn't Really Mean That") |
Making Your Life Easier with alias |
Forcing the Issue |
Standard Input and Standard Output |
Pipes and Piping |
tee: A Very Special Pipe |
Stderr |
The Road to Nowhere |
Linux Commands: Working with Directories |
There's No Place Like $Home |
More on File Permissions |
User and Group Ownership |
Who Can Do What? |
Who Was That Masked User? |
The setuid Bit |
Finding Anything |
Using grep |
Processes |
Forests and Trees |
Killing Processes |
Forging On... |
Working with Editors / Appendix D: |
Meet Kate |
I Am vi, the Great and Powerful! |
:q, :w, :wq, and ZZ |
Recovering a vim Session |
Power vi: Start-up Options |
emacs, pico, and nedit, Oh My! |
Index |
Preface |
Introduction / Chapter 1: |
Is Linux Really FREE? |
The GPL |
So What Do I Gain? |
Security |