Unix - Linux - Tools: Commands, Tools, X11

  1. Literature

    1. Books

  2. Installation and Configuration

    1. Linux Distributions
    2. Booting: Lilo, Grub, Init
    3. SuSE: System Configuration with YaST
    4. Package Management: RPM
    5. Install non-packaged Software
    6. Disk-Used, Disk-Free: du, df, quota
    7. System Messages: /var/log
    8. Config Flies in /etc
    9. RC init
      Exercise: Installation

  3. Standard Terminal Tools

    1. Shells: bash, sh, ksh, csh, exit
    2. Forground - Background Jobs:
      &, CTRL-z, bg, fg, CTRL-c
    3. find and locate
    4. grep
    5. diff
    6. xargs
    7. Field stripping: cut and awk
    8. Stream Edit: sed
      Exercise: Terminal Tools
    9. Regular Expressions
      Exercise: Regular Expressions
    10. sort
    11. history
    12. alias
    13. Printing: lpr, lpq, lprm
    14. Cron
      Exercise: Cron
    15. Midnight (Norton) Commander
    16. Math: bc, octave, maple, matlap,
      mathematica
      Exercise: Math Tools

  4. Files: Compression, Archiving, Saving

    1. Compression: gzip, bzip2, compress
    2. Archiving: tar
    3. Digital Dump: dd
    4. Burning CDs: iso9660,
      mkisofs, cdrecord
    Exercise: Compression and Archiving

  5. X - Tools

    1. X11 and Window-Managers
    2. X Server Configuration
    3. startx and Init X: .Xdefaults, .xinitrc
    4. X Features
    5. xterm, kterm, gterm
    6. Browsers: konqurer, mozilla
    7. Office Tools: Star-Office, Open-Office,
      Ghostview,Acroread, xpdf, lyx
    8. Figures: xview / xv, convert, xfig, xpaint, gimp.
    9. Burning CDs: koncd, xcdroast
    10. Multi Media: realplayer, etc
    11. Qt
      Exercise: X