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Where to go from here?

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A Hands on Guide, 1.27 Edition, Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Machtelt Garrels

1. Useful Books

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1.1. General Linux

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  • "Linux in a Nutshell" by Ellen Siever, Jessica P. Hackman, Stephen Spainhour, Stephen Figgins, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 0596000251

  • "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Lar Kaufman, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 156592469X

  • "Linux Unleashed" by Tim Parker, Bill Ball, David Pitts, Sams, ISBN 0672316889

  • "When You Can't Find Your System Administrator" by Linda Mui, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565921046

  • When you actually buy a distribution, it will contain a very decent user manual.

1.2. Editors

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  • "Learning the Vi Editor" by Linda Lamb and Arnold Robbins, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565924266

  • "GNU Emacs Manual" by Richard M.Stallman, iUniverse.Com Inc., ISBN 0595100333

  • "Learning GNU Emacs" by Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt and Eric Raymond, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565921526

  • "Perl Cookbook" by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565922433

1.3. Shells

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  • "Unix Shell Programming" by Stephen G.Kochan and Patrick H.Wood, Sams Publishing, ISBN 067248448X

  • "Learning the Bash Shell" by Cameron Newham and Bill Rosenblatt, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565923472

  • "The Complete Linux Shell Programming Training Course" by Ellie Quigley and Scott Hawkins, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0130406767

  • "Linux and Unix Shell Programming" by David Tansley, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0201674726

  • "Unix C Shell Field Guide" by Gail and Paul Anderson, Prentice Hall, ISBN 013937468X

1.4. X Window

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  • "Gnome User's Guide" by the Gnome Community, iUniverse.Com Inc., ISBN 0595132251

  • "KDE Bible" by Dave Nash, Hungry Minds Inc., ISBN 0764546929

  • "The Concise Guide to XFree86 for Linux" by Aron HSiao, Que, ISBN 0789721821

  • "The New XFree86" by Bill Ball, Prima Publishing, ISBN 0761531521

  • "Beginning GTK+ and Gnome" by Peter Wright, Wrox Press, ISBN 1861003811

  • "KDE 2.0 Development" by David Sweet and Matthias Ettrich, Sams Publishing, ISBN 0672318911

  • "GTK+/Gnome Application Development" by Havoc Pennington, New Riders Publishing, ISBN 0735700788

1.5. Networking

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  • "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume I: The Protocols" by W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, ISBN 0-201-63346-9

  • "DNS and BIND" by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu, Mike Loukides and Deborah Russell, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 0596001584

  • "The Concise Guide to DNS and BIND" by Nicolai Langfeldt, Que, ISBN 0789722739

  • "Implementing LDAP" by Mark Wilcox, Wrox Press, ISBN 1861002211

  • "Understanding and deploying LDAP directory services" by Tim Howes and co., Sams, ISBN 0672323168

  • "Sendmail" by Brian Costales and Eric Allman, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 1565922220

  • "Removing the Spam : Email Processing and Filtering" by Geoff Mulligan, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0201379570

  • "Managing IMAP" by Dianna & Kevin Mullet, O'Reilly UK, ISBN 059600012X

2. Useful sites

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2.1. General information

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2.2. Architecture Specific References

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  • AlphaLinux: Linux on Alpha architecture (e.g. Digital Workstation)

  • Linux-MIPS: Linux on MIPS (e.g. SGI Indy)

  • Linux on the Road: Specific guidelines for installing and running Linux on laptops, PDAs, mobile phones and so on. Configuration files for various models.

  • MkLinux: Linux on Apple

2.3. Distributions

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2.4. Software

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3. DOS versus Linux commands

In this appendix, we matched DOS commands with their Linux equivalent.

As an extra means of orientation for new users with a Windows background, the table below lists MS-DOS commands with their Linux counterparts. Keep in mind that Linux commands usually have a number of options. Read the Info or man pages on the command to find out more.

Table B-1. Overview of DOS/Linux commands

DOS commands Linux command
<command> /? man <command> or command --help
cd cd
chdir pwd
cls clear
copy cp
date date
del rm
dir ls
echo echo
edit vim (or other editor)
exit exit
fc diff
find grep
format mke2fs or mformat
mem free
mkdir mkdir
more more or even less
move mv
ren mv
time date
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