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Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. by Naba Barkakati SUSE Linux ® 9.3 FOR DUMmIES ‰ Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. SUSE Linux ® 9.3 FOR DUMmIES ‰ Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. by Naba Barkakati SUSE Linux ® 9.3 FOR DUMmIES ‰ Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2005923238 ISBN-13: 978-07645-9615-5 ISBN-10: 0-7645-9615-2 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1B/QT/QV/QV/IN Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. About the Author Naba Barkakati is an electrical engineer and a successful computer-book author who has experience in a wide variety of systems, ranging from MS-DOS and Windows to UNIX and Linux. He bought his first personal computer — an IBM PC-AT — in 1984 after graduating with a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. While pursuing a full-time career in engineering, Naba dreamed of writing software for the emerging PC software market. As luck would have it, instead of building a software empire like Microsoft, he ended up writing successful computer books. Currently, Naba is a Senior Level Technologist at the Center for Technology and Engineering in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Over the past 16 years, Naba has written over 25 computer books on a number of topics, ranging from object-oriented programming with C++ to Linux. He has authored several best-selling titles, such as The Waite Group’s Turbo C++ Bible, Object-Oriented Programming in C++, X Window System Programming, Visual C++ Developer’s Guide, Borland C++ 4 Developer’s Guide, and Linux Secrets. His books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, French, Polish, Greek, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Naba’s most recent book is Linux All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, also published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. Naba lives in North Potomac, Maryland, with his wife Leha, and their chil- dren, Ivy, Emily, and Ashley. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Dedication I would like to dedicate this book to my wife Leha, and daughters Ivy, Emily, and Ashley. Author’s Acknowledgments I am grateful to Terri Varveris for getting me started on this book — a For Dummies guide about the up and coming SUSE Linux. As the project editor, Linda Morris guided me through the manuscript-submission process and kept everything moving. I appreciate the guidance and support that Terri and Linda gave me during this project. I would like to thank Susan Douglas for reviewing the manuscript for techni- cal accuracy and providing many useful suggestions for improving the book’s content. Thanks to everyone at Wiley Publishing for transforming my raw manuscript into this well-edited and beautifully packaged book. Of course, there would be no reason for this book if it were not for Linux. For this, we have Linus Torvalds and the legions of Linux developers around the world to thank. Thanks to Christian Egle, Andreas Jaeger, and others at Novell for providing beta copies of SUSE Linux and for the Special Edition DVD that’s bundled with this book. Finally, and as always, my greatest thanks go to my wife, Leha, and our daughters, Ivy, Emily, and Ashley — it is their love and support that keeps me going. Thanks for being there! Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. [...]... 17 Figuring Out What You Can Do with SUSE Linux 17 Disks, CD-ROMs, and DVD-ROMs .19 Peripheral devices 19 File systems and sharing .20 Networking 20 Getting Started with SUSE Linux 21 Install and configure SUSE Linux 21 Explore SUSE Linux 22 Use SUSE Linux .22 Chapter 2: Installing SUSE Linux 23... Checking Your PC’s Hardware 24 Installing SUSE Linux .26 Booting your PC from the DVD/CD-ROM drive .26 Installing SUSE Linux from CDs or DVD 26 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark xii SUSE Linux 9.3 For Dummies Chapter 3: Starting SUSE for the First Time 39 Powering Up SUSE Linux .39 Getting GUI 41... Contents at a Glance Introduction 1 Part I: Getting to Know SUSE 7 Chapter 1: What Is SUSE Linux? 9 Chapter 2: Installing SUSE Linux 23 Chapter 3: Starting SUSE for the First Time 39 Chapter 4: Taking Stock of What’s in SUSE 55 Part II: Test Driving SUSE 63 Chapter 5: Exploring the SUSE Desktops .65 Chapter 6: Finding and Organizing Files... 4 Icons Used in This Book 4 Where to Go from Here 5 Part I: Getting to Know SUSE 7 Chapter 1: What Is SUSE Linux? 9 Getting a Handle on Linux .9 Discovering SUSE Linux .12 Making sense of Linux version numbers 12 What’s in SUSE Linux? 13 GNU software 13 GUIs and applications 14 Networks ... Part IV: Becoming a SUSE Wizard 253 Chapter 17: Look Ma, I’m a Sysadmin! 255 Chapter 18: Updating SUSE and Adding New Software .273 Chapter 19: Securing SUSE Linux 287 Part V: The Part of Tens 309 Chapter 20: Ten Frequently Asked Questions about SUSE .311 Chapter 21: The Ten Best Things about SUSE 321 Chapter 22: Ten Great Web Sites for SUSE Maniacs 327... LAN with Wireless Access 123 Part III: Doing Stuff with SUSE 139 Chapter 9: Browsing the Web 141 Chapter 10: E-Mailing and Instant Messaging in SUSE .155 Chapter 11: Reading Newsgroups 169 Chapter 12: Preparing Documents and Spreadsheets in SUSE Linux 183 Chapter 13: Doing Even More Office Stuff in SUSE Linux 205 Chapter 14: Playing Music and Burning CDs ... Figuring Out the Linux File System 81 Using GUI File Managers 85 Conquering the file system with Konqueror 85 Roaming the file system with Nautilus 88 Using Linux Commands to Manipulate Files and Directories 93 Commands for directory navigation 94 Commands for directory listings and permissions 95 Commands for working with files .98 Commands for working with... Trying a few Linux commands 50 Shutting Down 52 Chapter 4: Taking Stock of What’s in SUSE 55 Discovering the Internet Applications 55 Introducing the Office Applications 57 Exploring the Multimedia Applications .58 Cataloging the Image and Graphics Applications 60 Part II: Test Driving SUSE 63 Chapter 5: Exploring the SUSE Desktops... 94 Commands for directory listings and permissions 95 Commands for working with files .98 Commands for working with directories 99 Commands for finding files .100 Commands for mounting and unmounting .101 Commands for checking disk-space usage .102 Chapter 7: I Want My Internet, Now! 105 What Is the Internet? 105 Deciding How to Connect... 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Part of Tens 3 09 Chapter 20: Ten Frequently Asked Questions about SUSE 31 1 Chapter 21: The Ten Best Things about SUSE 32 1 Chapter 22: Ten Great Web Sites for SUSE Maniacs 32 7 Chapter 23: Ten Most