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• 2006-10-01 Modifications by Anita Lewis, Diane Marks, Sam Morgan, Stefan Waidele and other contributors to the LinuxBasics.org community. The changes can be seen via the “History-button” in the menu of each section. Published via the internet by LinuxBasics.org.

Introduction to Linux: A Hands on Guide

This document is published in the Guides section of the Linux Documentation Project collection at http://www.tldp.org/guides.html; you can also download PDF and PostScript formatted versions here.

The most recent edition is available at http://tille.garrels.be/training/tldp/.

This guide is available in print from Fultus.com Books by Print On Demand. Fultus distributes this document to many bookstores, including Baker & Taylor and the on-line bookstores Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, BarnesAndNoble.com and Google's Froogle.

Figure 1. Introduction to Linux front cover

The guide has been translated into Hindi by:

• Alok Kumar
• Dhananjay Sharma
• Kapil
• Puneet Goel
• Ravikant Yuyutsu

Andrea Montagner translated the guide into Italian.

• Revision 1.26 20070919 Revised by: MG

Comments from readers, license.

• Revision 1.25 20070511 Revised by: MG

Comments from readers, minor updates, E-mail etiquette, updated info about availability (thanks Oleg).

• Revision 1.24 2006-11-01 Revised by: MG

added index terms, prepared for second printed edition, added gpg and proxy info.

• Revision 1.23 2006-07-25 Revised by: MG and FK

Updates and corrections, removed app5 again, adapted license to enable inclusion in Debian docs.

• Revision 1.22 2006-04-06 Revised by: MG

chap8 revised completely, chap10: clarified examples, added ifconfig and cygwin info, revised network apps.

• Revision 1.21 2006-03-14 Revised by: MG

Added exercises in chap11, corrected newline errors, command overview completed for chapter 9, minor corrections in chap10.

• Revision 1.20 2006-01-06 Revised by: MG

Split chap7: audio stuff is now in separate chapter, chap11.xml. Small revisions, updates for commands like aptitude, more on USB storage, Internet telephony, corrections from readers.

• Revision 1.19 2005-09-07 Revised by: MG

clarified file descriptors, exercises in chap3, corrected links, added more Debian refs, corrected language errors.

• Revision 1.18 2005-05-23 Revised by: MG

note about pagers, lots of clarifications, removed quite some RedHat-centric paragraphs, reviewed and updated lots in sound and video, removed xmms-mp3 stuff, added time zone info because I was just dealing with date and time, contrary to the title of the section, removed Mandrake refs.

• Revision 1.17 2005-03-01 Revised by: MG

Lots of little details that were outdated, added several notes, removed tracer image, added info about new apps.

• Revision 1.16 2004-12-06 Revised by: MG

Changes because of domain move, minor corrections.

• Revision 1.15 2004-07-09 Revised by: MG

Added tracer image 1×1 pixel http://tille.xalasys.com/images/blank.png in each section and sect1, corrected wrong links in glossary, added textobjects for all images, made signal list and disk I/O problems list more clear.

• Revision 1.14 2004-06-19 Revised by: MG

Added tee command in chap5, corrected typos, acted upon remarks sent in by readers, added newgrp explanations, explained user private group scheme, added a remark on umask.

• Revision 1.13 2004-04-27 Revised by: MG

Last read-through before sending everything to Fultus for printout. Added Fultus referrence in New Versions section, updated Conventions and Organization sections. Minor changes in chapters 4, 5, 6 and 8, added rdesktop info in chapter 10, updated glossary, replaced references to fileutils with coreutils, thankyou to Hindi translators.

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