LINUX? Configuration and Installation (The M&t Books Slackware Series)
Language: English
Published by Wiley, 1998
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- Title
- LINUX? Configuration and Installation (The M&t Books Slackware Series)
- Author
- Volkerding, Patrick, Reichard, Kevin, Foster-Johnson, Eric
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0764570056
- ISBN 13
- 9780764570056
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Prepare your PC for Linux
- Install and configure Linux for your system
- Set up XFree86
- Master the basic Linux tools and applications
- Manage your system for maximum performance
- Leverage resources with a Linux network
- Expand your system with telecommunications capabilities
- Connect to the Internet with Linux
- Develop Linux applications using C, Make, Java, Tcl, Perl, and Gawk
- Kernels for most major PC hardware configurations — including support for IDE/EIDE, SCSI, PCMCIA cards, tape drives, sound boards, network cards, Jaz and Zip drives, and CD-ROMs
- Full set of installation tools — including easy-to-use menus and tools for upgrading
- Three installation methods — traditional Linux installation via bootdisks and rootdisks, direct installation onto a Zip drive or other DOS partition, and direct installation from the bootable installation CD-ROM
- Complete installation of XFree86 3.3.2 system — including installation and configuration utilities, window managers (fvwm, fvwm-95, twm, olvwm), and X servers for most graphics cards
- Full TCP/IP connectivity for the Internet, corporate networks, and intranets
- Netscape Communicator, with Web-browsing, electronic-mail, collaborative, and newsgroup capabilities
- Complete ANSI C and C++ programming suites
- Various Unix shells — including the Bourne Again Shell (bash), tcsh, and more
- Tools for connecting your PC to the Internet and to online services with PPP, SLIP, CSLIP, UUCP, dip, mailx, and dialup serial programs
- Other Internet applications — including electronic mail (pine and elm), Web browsers (Arena and Lynx), Usenet newsreaders (cnews, nn, tin, trn, and inn) and FTP
- All major GNU commands and applications — including GNU Emacs 20.2
- Multimedia tools for working with images files and MIME
- Internet servers — including the Apache HTTP Web server, sendmail, and an FTP server
- Terminal applications — including Midnight Commander and the sc spreadsheet
- A full set of programming tools — egcs-1.0.3 (gcc-2.8 based C/C++/f77/Objective-C compiler from egcs.cygnus.com), make (GNU and BSD), byacc and GNU bison, flex, 5.4.44 C libraries, gdb, SVGAlib, ncurses, gcl (LISP), p2c, m4, perl, python, rcs
- Text-editing and text-formatting tools — including elvis, vm, jed, joe, jove, pico, gross TeX, info) as well as hundreds of fonts
- Full suite of X Window applications — including Ghostscript, xlock, libgr, seyon, workman, xfilemanager, xv 3.10a, GNU chess and xboard, xfm 1.3.2, ghostview, gnuplot, xpaint, xfractint, and various X games.
- Support for iBCS, which allow binaries created on other x86 UNIX variants to run under Linux
- X Window programming and usage tools — X11 server linkkit, static libraries, PEX support, xview3.2p1-X11R6 (XView libraries), the Open Look virtual and nonvirtual window managers for XFree86
- Various applications and add-ons — the manual pages, groff, ispell, joe, jed, jove, ghostscript, sc, bc, and the quota patches
- A collection of FAQs and other documentation
- Tcl, Tk, and TcIX, built with ELF shared libraries and dynamic loading support, as well as the TkDesk file manager
- The BSD games collection — Koules, Lizards, and Sasteroids
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