My Linux Book

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Note

Why again an other Linux Book

About myself

My Linux history

About the Document

Style in this book

What is Linux

Some terms

Daemon

Zombie

N00b

TUX

Gnu

CamelCase

Foo, bar and foobar

rc and init.d

The Config files

Message when you move from Windows to-wards Linux

Advantages

Disadvantages

Some rules when working with Gentoo Linux

Knoppix

Pendrive

Android

BSD (Berkley Software Distribution)

Help

Using the manual pages

Man pages on the web

Info pages

Using documentation from the packages

Using documentation from the source

Using the Internet

Writing your own man pages

2. Working in the Console

The Console

Console login

Working with bash

Special characters

Wild cards

Strings in Bash

Calculations

Command substitution

Bash scripts

Bash processes

Bash variables

The [ program

Bracket overview

Debug of bash scripts

Bash configuration

Commands

cat

cd

cp

cut

dd

find

grep

ls

more or less

mv

rm and rmdir

strings

tail

uname

watch

Sed

Filtering certain lines

Sed Commands

Sed Options

Regular expressions

Character description

Examples

Ranges of characters

Localization

3. System

Character encoding

ASCII

ASCII Table

UTF-8

Hexadecimal

Booting and runlevels

BIOS

Bootloader

Booting the kernel

Inittab

Improving the boot time

Mounting the file systems

Boot script and default runlevel

Initscripts

Login at startup

BIOS update

Start up messages

Linux 32 bit or 64 bit

Loading Libraries

Processes

Interprocess Communication IPC

Kernel

Hardware compatibility

Having the hardware and looking for drivers

Hints about kernel compiling

Kernel compilation

Kernel internals

Kernel modules

modules configuration

modules directory

update modules

Working with the modules

D-Bus

Devicekit

udisks

Log files

Config files

Files that will be customized

Files usually not to be customized

CPU

Memory

Endians

Memory usage

Swap

Memory Management Unit (MMU)

Time

UTC

NTP

RTC chip on the motherboard

Gateways and Routers

Cron

Vixie-cron

Other crons

Frontends

Clone a system

Turn off a Linux computer

Posix

Install Packages

Redhat/Suse

Debian

Gentoo

From Source

4. Hardware

Graphic Cards

Common issues with video cards

Nvidia

ATI Grapcis Cards Radeon

Monitors

Keyboard

Mouse

Parallel Port

PCI

Power

ACPI

Batteries

Frequency scaling of the cpu

Hard disks

Impact of the software

5. Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Xorg, the X server

Install the X server

The configuration file

Font

Setting up fonts

Resetting font configuration

Japanese, Chinese and Korean fonts

Desktop environments

Gnome

KDE

Xfce

Window Managers

Compiz

Graphical login

Start, stop and login

Slim

Screen capture

QT

6. Authentication

Ownership

User account

User definition

Group definition

Working with different computers

Commands and behavior

Administrator (root or superuser)

Sudo

Policykit

Consolekit

Login

Password managers

Kwallet

Gnome keyring

View and synchronize the passwords

PAM

PAM applications

PAM modules

PAM configuration files

How it fits together

PAM configuration file contents

PAM Examples

Gnupg

Produce your keys

Key servers

Handling the keys

Using the keys

Gpg Agent

GUI's for Gpg

Seahorse

LDAP

Hacking a computer

7. Filesystem

FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standardization)

Permissions

Linux file systems

ISO file systems

Rock Ridge and Joilet

Mount a ISO image

Microsoft File Systems

FAT

NTFS

Fix permissions

Encrypted File Systems

Encfs

TrueCrypt

Other encryption methods

Links

Symbolic links

Static links

Pipes and FIFO

Device files

Mount and umount

Automounter

udev

udev rules

Advanced udev rules

Proc

Hard disk

DMA (Direct Memory Access)

Partitions

Test programs

SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)

CD and DVD

RAM disks

Floppy disks

Format

Mount

Floppy image files

Convert file systems to files

Checksum

MD5 Message-Digest algorithm 5

SHA-1 and SHA-2

MD160

Integrity of CD/DVD's

Device Mapper

Filelight

Zip files

bzip2

gzip and gunzip

Tar

unrar

Zcat

Zip

Unison

8. Networking

Serial port

Terminal programs

Troubleshooting serial links

USB to RS232 serial controller

Programming serial links

Base64

Ethernet

TCPIP

TCP/IP packets

Setting up the TCP/IP connection

IP addresses and DHCP

DNS (Domain Name System)

Dynamic DNS

OpenNIC

DNS name server

Network tools

Networkmanager

Wicd

Server configuration

Sockets

URL and URI

Wireless

Device drivers

Wireless implementation under Linux

Tools to work with wireless connections

USB

Installing USB

USB protocol

Descriptors

I2C

Different implementations

External I2C adapters

Observing an external LM75 chip

A MLX90614 Infra Red Thermometer

Observing a memory chip

I2c bit banging

Telnet

Telnet client

Telnet server

SSH

FTP

Ftp servers

Ftp clients

Rsync

Mail

Kmail, the KDE e-mail program

Evolution

Simple mail programs

MIME

Instant Messenger (IM)

Internet relay chat (IRC)

RSS

eD2k (eDonkey2000)

Network filesystems

NFS

Samba, connect Windows PC's to the Linux World

Automount

Webserver

Apache

Ngnix

LAMP

PHP

CGI

SSI

Ajax

Access counters

htdig

World Wide Web

Browser

HTTP

HTML

Making html nicer

The meta tags

Working with HTML

Wireshark

Xinetd

9. Office

Documents

Acrobat

Emacs

LibreOffice

Latex

Lyx

Wiki

Dokuwiki

Contacts

Calculators

Printer

Line printer

Cups

PDF printers

Printer troubleshooting

Spell Checkers

SQL

SQLite

MySQL

Korganizer

10. Graphics

Dot

Gnuplot

Command line tools for images

Gimp

Daily work with Gimp

Animated Gifs with Gimp

Icons with Gimp

Image maps for web pages

Inkscape

Synfig 2D animation

Modeling 3D

Blender

Coordinate system

The Blender windows

Blender game engine

Scripting Blender

Povray

Wings 3D

User interface

Modeling

Making holes

CAD

qcad

Scilab

Freemath

Printed Circuit Board design

Kicad

Eagle

Scanner

11. XML

Introduction to XML

XML tags

Adding special characters to xml

XML Namespaces

DTD (Document Type Definition)

Doctype

XML Schema

RELAX NG

Working with XML

XmlStarlet

xmldiff

Html-xml-utils

XML2

Validate xml

Docbook

Docbook syntax

Docbook editing

Converting Docbook via Sgml utils

Converting Docbook via XSLT

XML as HTML evolution

XHTML

MathML

Xpath

Absolute path

Relative path

Wildchards

Stylesheets

Cascading Style Sheets

DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language)

XSL

Publishing XML Documents

XSL processing

Formatting Object Processor

Jade

Cleanup XML

Other tools

Processing Instructions

Processing XML in Python

ElementTree

lxml

SOAP

XML alternatives

JSON

12. Multimedia

Image formats

PPM

GIF

JPEG

ALSA

Setting up ALSA

Command line sound tools

Gui sound tools

Sound Hardware

Audio CD

Internet radio

Speech

Festival

mbrola

Speech device

KDE speech tools

Speech to mp3

Music synthesizer

Movie formats

Container formats

Video codecs

Video tools

Compression techniques

Video

Setting up the hardware

Video compression

Video DVD

Rip a video DVD

Camera

Webcam

Logitech, Inc. QuickCam 3000 Pro [pwc]

Thyphoon EasyCam

Webcam applications

IR cameras

TV cards

No auto detected TV cards

Digital TV cards

DVB-T Antennas

Analog cards

TV Applications

EPG (Electronic Program Guide)

Nxtvepg

XMLTV

Frontends for XMLTV

Internet TV

Media player

Mplayer

Xine

Gstreamer

VLC

Infrared remote control

LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control)

Using v4l2 ir devices under LIRC

Media Server

The server

The client

Home theater

Freevo

Mythtv

VDR

Oxine

Geebox

Mediasystem

Dreambox

Connection to the TV

13. Outdoor and fun

Mobile phones

Dial up

Connections using 3G phones

Gnokii

Obex

Opensync

Bluetooth

Bluetooth connection to the phone

Gnome bluetooth

Kdebluetooth

Other bluetooth software

GPS

GPS devices

The gps daemon gpsd

The maps

Gpsbabel

Navit

gpsdrive

Foxtrotgps

Google earth

eBook

EPUB

Aluratek libre eBook Reader Pro

Sigil

Calibre

fbreader

Ebook-tools

Games

Privateer

Linurs games

Unreal Tournament

14. Gentoo Linux

Gentoo fundamentals

The world file

System packages

The package data base

Emerge

Virtual packages

Slotted packages

Package sets

Finding what has been installed

Portage

Portage tools

Use flags

eselect

Mirrors

Profile updating

Handling of Config Files

etc-update

dispatch-conf

cfg-update

Ebuilds

Ebuilds in Portage

Working with different version of an ebuild

Creating an ebuild

Record of the installation

Elogs

Install an ebuild using the command ebuild

Debugging emerge and ebuilds

Overlays

The overlay directories

Layman

Using layman on self made overlays

LinursOverlay

Search in not installed overlays

Publish self-made programs

GLSA

Gentoo internals

List of repetitive tasks

Keep computer updated

Cleanup tasks

Backup data

Check disk space

Checking dependencies

Advanced checks

Check the disk health

Check log files

Check init scripts

Check portage database

Troubleshoot

Program crashes or does not start

Boot errors

Emerge update failures

Emerge wants to emerge stuff that you don't want

Emerging groups of ebuilds

No keyboard and mouse in X after update

Problems with after a gcc update

Python version conflicts

No Internet connection after update

Dependency troubles

Using Portage tools

Having done stupid things

15. Programming

gcc

C programming

The hello wold program

Hello world split in two files

Interacting with the parent process

Integrated development Environments (IDE)

Makefiles and make

Debugging

Execution from the text console

Libraries

Python

Python documentation

Installing an maintaining Python

Python3

Python on other operating systems

Hints on Python

Python IDE's

Embedded python debugging

Python GUI

Documenting Python

Python byte code

Accessing C code

Java

Java hello world program

Java hello world applet

Java script

Pascal

Free Pascal

Gnu Pascal

Eclipse Pascal

Debugging Pascal

TCL TK

Csharp

Basic

Perl

Ruby

slibvga

Beautifiers

Doxygen

Create the documentation

Doxygen Syntax

Graphic support

Build tools

Autotools

Scons

Waf

Code analysis tool

Version control

Git

CVS ( Concurrent Version System)

Other version control systems

Logging

16. Embedded Devices

Cross compilation

AVR microcontrollers

Setoutput

Compiling and linking

Assembler

Program the chip

Debugging micro controllers

IDE for micro controller development

Interfacing AVR devices to Linux via USB

LCDproc

Hardware issues

LCDproc software setup

Modbus

Terms and definitions

Libmodbus

Freemodbus

MBLogic

MBLogic Soft Logic

HMIServer

MBProbe

17. Emulation

DOS

DOS emulators

FreeDOS

VirtualBox

Guest additions

Run a ISO CD image

Back to the past

Shared folders

USB devices

Using Serial port

Running FreeDos

Snapshots

Bochs

Wine the Microsoft Windows API for Linux

HP41 Calculator

Remove applications

A. Bibliography

Bibliography

Index