OpenSUSE Linux: Unleashed

✍ Scribed by Michael McCallister

• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 733
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Comprehensive, authoritative guide to installing, configuring, and administering openSUSE, the community version of Novell's Linux Distro.

✦ Table of Contents

openSUSE Linux Unleashed
Table of Contents
Introduction
Why Use Linux?
Who This Book Is For
What This Book Contains
Conventions Used in This Book
Part I: Installation and Configuration
1 Welcome to openSUSE
What Is openSUSE?
Getting Help: Documentation and Other Sources
References
2 Preparing to Install openSUSE
Planning Your openSUSE Installation
System Requirements
References
3 Installing openSUSE
Methods of Installing openSUSE
Preparing to Install from a CD-ROM or DVD
Installing openSUSE with YaST
Logging In and Shutting Down the First Time
References
4 Further Configuration with YaST and SaX2
Troubleshooting Installation Problems
Configuring Hardware with YaST
Setting Date and Time
Power Management
Portable PC Issues
Configuring CD, DVD, and Rewritable Drives
References
Part II: Using openSUSE
5 Getting Started with openSUSE
Logging In to openSUSE
Working with the Linux File System
Essential File System Commands from the /bin and /sbin Directories
Using the /boot and /dev Directories
Editing Configuration Files in the /etc Directory
Where All the Good Stuff Goes: Your /home Directory
Finding Desktop Programs in /opt
Where Most of the Programs Go: The /usr Directory
Variable Data: The /var Directory
Changing User Information and the Finger Program
Choosing and Using a Shell
Editing Text
Why Can't I Edit This File? How Permissions Work
Working as Root
References
6 Launching Your Desktop
Understanding the X Window System
3D Video with Xgl
Choosing a Desktop Environment: KDE and GNOME
Managing Files from Your Desktop
Configuring Your Desktop Environment
What Is a Window Manager and Why Would I Want to Use It?
References
7 Printing with openSUSE
Printing: An Overview
Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
Configuring Printers with YaST
Configuring CUPS and Network Printers with KDEPrint
Printing with CUPS
Working with the Portable Document Format (PDF)
Console Print Control
Avoiding Printing Problems
References
8 Shaking Hands with Your Shell
What Is the Shell?
Using the Shell in openSUSE
The Power of the Command Line
Basic Shell Programming
Advanced Shell Programming
References
9 Being Productive: Office Suites and Other Tools
Comparing Linux Office Suites
Connecting with PDAs and Smart Phones
More Tools to Make You Productive
References
10 Sights, Sounds, and Other Fun Things
Playing Music and Listening to the Radio
Creating Music with the Linux Multimedia Studio (LMMS)
Burning CDs and DVDs
Watching Video
Watching TV on Your Computer
Linux and Your Digital Camera
Editing Images
Gaming on Linux
References
11 Going Cross-Platform
Viewing Files from the Windows Side of Your Computer
Emulating Other Operating Systems in Linux: An Overview
Using Wine to Run Windows Applications
Running Windows Applications with Win4Lin
Running Windows Applications with VMware
Emulating a Mac with Basilisk II
Using dosemu and DOSBox
Xen: The Future of Virtualization?
References
Part III: Using the Internet
12 Connecting to the Internet
Basic Connectivity Information
Starting with a localhost Interface
Configuring Your Dial-up Internet Connection
Configuring a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Connection
Connecting Your Computer to a Wireless Network
When to Call Your Internet Service Provider
References
13 Using the Internet: Browsing the Web and Writing Email
Choosing a Web Browser
Choosing a Mail Client (Mail User Agent)
Managing Your Calendar (and Other Life Tasks)
Sending File Attachments
References
14 Creating Basic Websites
Choosing a Web Development Tool
Practice: Building a Site with Quanta Plus
Weblogging with openSUSE
References
15 Managing Email Servers
How Email Works
Email Server Configuration
Fighting Spam and Viruses
References
16 Collaborating with Others
Getting News from RSS WebFeeds
Usenet News Today
Choosing a Usenet Newsreader
Collaborating with Wikis
Hosting Electronic Mailing Lists
Working with Instant Messengers and Internet Relay Chat
References
17 Secure File Transfer
Choosing a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Client
Peer-to-Peer File Transfer
References
Part IV: Basic System Administration
18 Managing Files, Volumes, and Drives
Choosing a File System
Creating and Managing File Systems with Partitioner
Mounting a File System
Logical Volume Management (LVM)
Finding Files
File System Manipulation
Managing Files for Character Devices, Block Devices, and Special Devices
References
19 Managing Users, Managing Security
User Accounts and Permissions
Who Needs What? Managing Groups
Passwords: The First Line of Security
Monitoring User Activity
Letting Mortals Play at Wizardry: SuperUsers
References
20 Managing Data: Backup, Restoring, and Recovery
Preparing for Preventing Data Loss
Choosing Your Backup Medium
Using the YaST System Backup
Backup Software
Setting Up Mirror Disks and RAID Arrays
Rescuing a Broken System
References
21 Keeping Your System Current: Package Management
Installing Software with YaST
The Basics of the Red Hat Package Management System (RPM)
Updating Your System with openSUSE Updater
Updating Your System with Smart
Compiling Software from Source
References
Part V: Advanced System Administration
22 Managing the Boot Process and Other Services
Understanding the Boot Process
System Services and Runlevels
Controlling Services at Boot with the YaST Runlevel Editor
Manually Starting and Stopping Services
System Monitoring Tools
References
23 Securing Your Machines
Understanding Computer Attacks
Assessing Your Vulnerability
Protecting Your Machine
Configuring the SUSE Firewall
Protecting Applications with AppArmor
Other Security Utilities to Consider
What to Do if You've Been Hacked
Keeping Up to Date on Linux Security Issues
References
24 Kernel and Module Management
Linus's Baby: The Linux Kernel
Managing Modules
When to Recompile
Kernel Versions
Getting New Kernel Sources
Patching the Kernel
Compiling the Kernel
Troubleshooting Problems
Kernel Tuning with sysctl
References
25 Setting Up Networks and Samba
Networking with TCP/IP
Network Organization
Hardware Devices in Networking
Initializing New Network Hardware
Using the Network File System
Playing Nice with Microsoft Windows using Samba
Securing Network Services
References
26 Managing Web and FTP Servers
What Is Apache?
Installing Apache
Starting and Stopping Apache
Runtime Server Configuration Settings
File System Authentication and Access Control
Apache Modules
Virtual Hosting
Dynamic Content
Other Web Servers
Building an FTP Server
Configuring xinetd for Secure File Transfer
Configuring Secure File Transfer Servers
References
27 Managing Domain Names
Essential DNS Concepts
DNS Hierarchy
Configuring DNS with YaST2
Hosts File
Basic DNS Tools
Configuring Name Servers with BIND
Logging
Summary
References
Part VI: Programming
28 Programming Tools
Basic Programming in C Under Linux
Building Applications with Eclipse
Using the KDevelop Integrated Development Environment
Using Anjuta to Create GNOME Applications
Using the GNU Compiler Collection
Managing Collective Software Development with CVS and Subversion
Creating RPM Packages
Other Linux Programming Resources
References
29 Managing Databases
What Is a Relational Database?
Implementing MySQL
Implementing PostgreSQL
Using openSUSE Database Clients
References
30 Using Perl and Python
What Is Perl?
Working with Perl
Perl Programming
Perl Modules and CPAN
The Future of Perl
What Is Python?
Working with Python
Programming in Python
Python Modules
Python IDEs and the Interactive Shell
References
31 Creating Dynamic Websites
Using PHP
Setting Up an Interactive Site with Drupal
Setting Up a Web-Based Community Forum
References
32 Performance Tuning
Optimizing Services
Tuning Hard Disk Drives
References
33 Command-Line Master Class
Command Line Basics
File Management Commands
System Management
Combining Commands
References
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