Outline of the site
Introduction on Home page
What is Linux
- What is a Kernel
- What is GNU not?
- The Linux Documentation Project
- Dictionary for Linux
Installing Linux
- Preinstall - Read this first if you want to install Linux.
- Linux Distros? - Information on various Linux Distros to help you choose and install
Installation Guides
- Resizing Tools? - Tools to resize your Windows partition to make room for Linux
- Backup your data!
- Preparing Drive? - How to prepare your hard drive for a Linux installation
- Hardware and Compatibility? - Check for compatibility of your hardware
- Booting From CD
- md5sum
- Install Boot Floppy
- During Install
- Loss of Windows XP boot after Linux Install
Using Linux
- Booting
- Getting Online
- Modem Configuration
Getting Around the System
- What happened to C:\Programs?
- Finding Files
- Command Line - BASH
- Puzzling commandlines
- Quick Command List
- Working with plain text files
- Copy and Paste
- Screenshot of a copy’n’paste example
- Speed meets -v
- Automating tasks with cron
Programs-Desktops
- Using Mutt to acess your ISP email account with Example ~/.muttrc file
- Speeding up Gecko (Firefox, Mozilla, and others)
- Installing Applications
- Filemanager Overview
- Installing Window Maker
- Thunderbird open links in Firefox
- Font Fun in KDE
- OGG to MP3
- Internet Explorer on Wine
Devices
- Printer Configuration for lpr using Apsfilter
- Debian and Winprinter
- Installing a Zip Plus drive
- PDA - Sync with Linux
Advanced Skills
Networking
- Networking - Start page for Networking
- Samba - Let’s dance
- Networking and Remote Access
- Testing my mailsystem
- Printer sharing
- Internet access and Firewalling
- Apache log-analysis
Welcome to the real world
- …a red guitar, three cords and the truth…
- Stamped and categorized!
- Recursive Search & Replace
- File-Links
- Can you tell the difference?
Various
- Re: My partition is full! Do I need to reinstall?
- Migration Tips
- Perfect partitioning
- Keeping Cardmgr quiet
- Tuning harddrives
- Killing my software
- LBo-Server for Small Businesses
- $ ( \ls; echo dir; mkdir dir ) | xargs mv
- File-storage
- Forgot Root Password
Security - Lock your box
- Social Engineering
- Secure Passwords
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Welcome to LinuxBasics.org - The online community that helps people to get Linux installed and running.
During this tour, we will guide you through our website, which has many facets which wait to be explored
The biggest project we are running is our Linux course, based on the LBook.
The book is stored in wiki-format, which enables us to update and correct it as we go.
Discussion for the course is on our Forum
Our Forum is used for discussion of Linux and for questions and answers.
Search the mailing-list that was used prior to the Forum.
The questions and answers from the list are stored in the list's archives in order to help others with the same problems.
Every weekend, we meet to chat in IRC. These meetings are NOT mandatory, but are a nice chance to get to know each other better.
IRC is also a great tool to solve many problems, since it is very quick and easy to ask for more details if you need them.
The tutorials are one of the oldest sections on the LBo-website.
Here you find explanations on how to do specific tasks in Linux. Many of the tutorials were created after a certain problem
has been discussed (and usually solved :) on the mailing-list.
The tutorials are categorized in
In the links section, you find outbound links to other valuable resources.
One of our later additions to the site. We maintain a mirror of the Linux Documentation Project. This is our contribution to the "home of the HOWTOs"
Another later addition is the LBlog which focuses on how to do stuff on the Linux Desktop. It begins with the basics on installing Ubuntu.
Using the integrated site-search, you can search the tutorials, the LBook and all other wiki-pages
Simply type the search term into the box in the upper-right corner of our webpages
As a community, we depend on your feedback and collaboration. So, if you have something to share with others, please contact us. If you have a suggestion for a topic you would like to see covered here, please add it on the Wishlist.
There are many ways to contribute: You can answer questions on the Forum, you can write a complete tutorial or just a step-by-step documentation on how you completed a specific task using linux. Ask questions if the information on this site is not clear, tell us if we got something wrong, spell-check our writings, whatever.
We are looking forward to meeting you at LinuxBasics.org
Anita, Jisao, Sam and Stefan