... IntroductionWelcome to LinuxSmartHomesFor Dummies. To own and operate a Linux smart home means to control and monitor devices and informa-tion around your home by using a standard personal computer, Linux, ... meth-ods for compiling the kernel for a distribution,but the ones I outline probably cover mostusers’ needs.08_598236 ch03.qxp 6/27/06 7:43 PM Page 56 Linux đ Smart HomesFor Dummies đPublished ... Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for theRest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies. com, and related tradedress...
... 14: Downloading and Uploading Files in a Snap 88Building Software from Downloaded tarballs 88Compiling a tarball: The basic steps 89Downloading and compiling SuperKaramba 89Versatile Downloading ... 92Downloading files with wget 92Downloading and unpacking in one quick step 92wget’s optional flags 92Downloading and Uploading with curl 93Technique 15: Building a Playpen withUser Mode Linux ... Housekeeping with Linux 101Technique 16: Red-lining RPM Queries 103Querying RPM Packages for Content 104Digesting Information 105Creating a Package Index 105Querying for Prerequisites 106Don’t...
... Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for theRest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies. com, and related tradedress ... by Naba BarkakatiSUSE Linux đ 9.3 FOR DUMmIES Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. by Naba BarkakatiSUSE Linux đ 9.3 FOR DUMmIES Please purchase ... 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 theworld to thank. Thanks...
... BookSUSE Linux 9.3 ForDummies is a beginner’s guide for the upcoming SUSE Linux distribution. The approach to the subject matter and the writing styleis that of the successful ForDummies series. ... competeshead-on with Red Hat’s Linux versions. SUSE Linux s fortunes have beenon the rise following Novell’s acquisition of Germany’s SUSE Linux AG for $210 million. SUSE is looking for more growth in the ... then install Linux on that PC.How This Book Is OrganizedSUSE Linux 9.3 ForDummies contains 23 chapters organized into five parts.The book’s organization is that of a typical ForDummies title...
... and SUSE Linux onthe PC; the SUSE Linux installer can split up the space on the hard drive intotwo parts — one part for Windows and the other for installing SUSE Linux. During the SUSE Linux installation, ... with the Linux distribution. The ver-sion numbers for the Linux kernel and the Linux distribution are unrelated,but each has particular significance. Linux kernel version numbersAfter Linux kernel ... servers uses a specific protocol for transferringinformation. For example, here are some common Internet servers that youfind in SUSE Linux: ߜ Sendmail: Mail server for exchanging e-mail messages...
... need a modem that Linux supports. For software-based modems, called soft modems or win-modems, you may have to download a driver from the manufacturer (itmay or may not be freely available).In ... you plan to use in SUSE Linux. To check if your PC’s hardware is compatible with SUSE Linux, visit the SUSE Linux Hardware Database at hardwaredb.suse.de.Installing SUSE Linux The companion DVD ... keyboard.Mouse Type of mouse (for example, PS/2 mouse).Partitioning Information about the hard drive partitions that will be for- matted and any partitions that would be mounted on the Linux file system....
... network).5. Select your printer type and click Next.YaST prompts for more information, depending on the printer type youselected. For example, for a parallel printer, you have to identify the par-allel ... generates the followingoutput on one of my Linux systems: Linux 2.6.8-24-default #1 Wed Oct 6 09:16:23 UTC 2004In this case, the system is running Linux kernel version 2.6.8.To read a file, ... work with the shelland know some of the cryptic Linux commands.You can prepare for unexpected encounters with the shell by trying out some Linux commands in a terminal window while you’re in...
... youchoose to use for your daily work. For starters, the initial desktop for both KDE and GNOME looks like any otherpopular GUI desktop, such as Microsoft Windows or Apple’s Mac OS desktop. For example, ... can do whatever Adobe Photoshop can do and it’s free! ߜ Digital camera interface is for connecting a digital camera to the SUSE Linux system and downloading the photos from the camera. If the ... SUSE Linux comes with a good complement ofmultimedia applications.When it comes to playing multimedia — audio and video in various formatssuch as MP3, MPEG, and QuickTime — freely available Linux...
... Linux file system, and you discoverhow to work with files and directories with several Linux commands.Figuring Out the Linux File SystemLike any other operating system, Linux organizes information ... the pri-mary menu for starting applications.ߜ System Menu has the menu for system configuration and performingtasks such as logging out or locking the screen.ߜ Help Menu is for accessing online ... (pronounced Guh-NOME) is another GUI for SUSE Linux. The acronymGNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment (and GNU, as youprobably know, stands for GNU’s not UNIX). GNOME is a graphical...
... files and folders in other formats as well. For example, from the menu,choose View➪View Mode➪Detailed List View to see the folder’s contentswith smaller icons in a list format (see Figure 6-4), ... www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Commands for directory navigationIn Linux, when you log in as root, your home directory is /root. For otherusers, the home directory is usually in the ... (xim, for example, is an executable file.) The shell can run any executable file.You can see even more detailed information about the files and directorieswith the -l option:ls -l For the...
... locate command isn’t installed by default in SUSE Linux, but it’s veryeasy to install. See Chapter 23 for information on how to use it.Commands for mounting and unmountingSuppose you want to ... command. I stayed with one basic syntax of find for a long time before graduating to more complex forms. The basic syntax thatI discovered first was for finding a file anywhere in the file system. ... according to the download and upload speeds you want. A popularform of ADSL, called G.lite, is specifically designed to work on the sameline you use for voice calls. G.lite has a maximum download speed...
... you need a DSL or cablemodem hookup for this scenario to work (and you have to sign up with thephone company for DSL service or with the cable provider for cable Internetservice).When you ... install SUSE Linux from this book’s companion DVD on a PC thathas an Ethernet card, the Linux kernel automatically detects the Ethernetcard and installs the appropriate drivers. The SUSE Linux installer, ... information.Configuring the Ethernet NetworkWhen you set up the network during SUSE Linux installation, the installationprogram prepares all appropriate configuration files using the informationEthernet...
... password) to a Web server. For example, a URL such ashttps://some.site.com/secure/takeorder.htmlmay display an HTML form that requests credit card informationand other personal information (such as ... to connect to the Internet. For example, file:///srv/www/html/index.html opens the file/srv/www/html/index.html from your Linux system.ãftp:// means that you can download a file using the File ... is downloaded using the HypertextTransfer Protocol (HTTP). This protocol is the well-known formatProtocolDomain nameDirectorypathHTMLanchorFilenamePortFigure 9-1:The parts ofa UniformResourceLocator(URL).143Chapter...