Everything a novice could need
>Many people who have Linux machines at home or at work still find them selves working on Windows computers at their desk. So how do you get into your Linux box from here. You need to use a terminal client to open a remote shell on your Linux PC. To do this your can use [...]
How annoying is this: You need to make changes to your
menu order and gmenu won\’t allow you to do it. You need to be
logged in as root and that means opening an xterm and
su\’ing as root then launching the app. Well, there
is hope and its called \”consolehelper\”. This application [...]
The Linux filesystem
There is no doubt that one of the most confusing things about Linux (at
least to the novice user) is its filesystem. Since most of us grew
accustomed to the way Windows does things, thinking about the filesystem
in terms of the A or C drive seems almost natural, but understanding the
differences between /etc and [...]
Installing applications from tarballs
Even though the RPM Pacckage Manager (RPM) has quickly become pretty much
standard in many Linux distributions (Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, Mandrake…),
you may still come across files with a .tar.gz or .tgz extension from time
to time. If you run Slackware, you definitely will see these files, since
it is the default file type [...]
A typical problem that we Linux users have to solve is how to connect to our Linux box via ssh from a Windows system. You see this question posted over and over again in the newsgroups and mailing lists. Well, here is a list of Windows ssh clients [...]