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Yet another Linux FAQ:
Last updated 3/01/03
1 About this document
1.1 This is long! Why should
I care to read it anyway?
1.2 May I make
suggestions/corrections/amendments/whatever to this document?
1.3 I did something exactly
as you told me, and it screwed up my system/burned my monitor/killed my
cat/etc. May I sue you?
1.4 Is this document
available in other formats/languages?
1.5 What about updates?
1.6 you're so smart! May I
send you e-mail with some questions?
2 Linux resources on the web
2.1 Where do I get to know
more about Linux?
2.2 Where do I get to know
more about KDE?
2.3 Where do I get to know
more about GNOME?
2.4 What about books on Linux?
2.5 What about this UNIX
thing I keep hearing about?
2.6 Where can I get Linux?
3 How do I...?
3.1 Find out what's going
wrong?
3.2 Use documentation
efficiently?
3.3 Get people to answer my
questions?
4 Things to know before
installation
4.1 Find out if Linux
supports your hardware.
4.2 Find out about
installation issues.
4.3 Install without making a
boot disk first.
4.4 Make a boot disk within
Windows.
4.5 Make a boot disk within
Linux.
5 X windows configurations
5.1 Start the X server at a
certain color depth.
5.2 Have the X server by
default start at a certain color depth.
5.3 Get the X server to start
with a different pre-configured resolution.
5.4 Turn off virtual screen
resolution. (Screen bigger than monitor)
5.5 Start X/KDE right after
boot.
5.6 Use the power saving
features in X/KDE.
6 Advanced concepts
6.1 Use a different window
manager/desktop environment.
6.2 Upgrade the Linux kernel.
6.3 Enhance system security.
6.4 Find out what's eating
your system resources.
6.5 Enhance shell settings.
6.6 Handle system services
(daemons).
7 Installing programs
7.1 Installing RPMs.
7.2 Installing from source.
7.3 Other installation
methods.
8 FAQs
8.1 FAQs for various news
groups. (Updated)
8.2 FAQs for various
distributions.
8.3 Other Linux related FAQs.
9 Newsgroups (Updated)
9.1 Distribution specific.
9.2 General newsgroups
10 Command lists
10.1 A quick list of
commands.
10.2 KDE keyboard commands.
10.3 GNOME keyboard
commands.
11 Tips and troubleshooting
11.1 You've installed Windows
and lilos gone and Linux wont boot now what?
11.2 Your hard drive crashed and
you didn't backup (shame on you)
11.3 Installing apt4rpm
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