This manual takes a concise instructional approach to show you how to get specific things done in Linux. The unfortunate drawback to this approach is that it inevitably becomes - in part - distro-specific. In this case, towards Red Hat Linux.

Most of this manual is not distro-specific, so if you do use another distro then I still recommend checking out this manual (although ignore parts 2 and 3 of "The Installation Bits"). I've had much praise given to the manual from users of other distros so I must be doing something right. :)

The Installation Bits

1. How Do I Partition My Hard Drive?
2. How Do I Begin The Linux Installation Program?
3. The No Nonsense Red Hat Installation Guide

   The Basic Bits

4. Logging-in and Creating a User Account
5. A Quick Introduction
6. Temporarily Becoming root: The su Command

   The Command Line Bits

7. Command Tutorial #1: cd & ls
8. Command Tutorial #2: pwd & clear
9. Command Tutorial #3: mkdir & rmdir
10. Command Tutorial #4: cp, mv & rm
11. The Command History

    The Disk Bits

12. Accessing Disks: The /etc/fstab File
13. Formatting Floppy Disks and Zip Disks

    The Net Bits

14. Setting-up an Internet Connection
15. Setting-up E-mail For KMail
16. Setting-up fetchmail and Pine

    The Configuration Bits

17. The Setup Utility

    The Customising Your Terminal Bits

18. Putting Life Into Your Terminal
19. Shortening All Those Huge Commands: Aliases
20. Customising Your Login Message
21. Changing Your Default Editor

    The Compression Bits

22. Tar and Feathers - Without the Feathers
23. Winzip or Linzip? - The zip and unzip Commands

    The Text Editor Bits

24. Vi Survival Guide
25. Emacs Tutorial #1: Basic Editing

    The Installing Software Bits

26. RPM at the Terminal

    The Kernel Bits

27. Upgrading Your Kernel

    The SysAdmin Bits

28. Automating Things With Cron

    The Security Bits

29. Forgot Your root Password?

    The Database Bits

30. Introduction to MySQL

    The Programming Bits

31. How Do I Create, Compile And Run a C Program?
32. Introduction to Perl 2nd February 2000

1. Lilo Explained
2. The Kernel
3. The Shell
4. Files
5. The X Window System
6. Access Rights Intro