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Linux Books

Of course the Internet along with the help of Google is a great source of information. You can answer almost any question you have about Linux and find many tutorials, guides and help. However many people prefer reading this information on a printed book accesssible even when they are not online or don't have a computer in front of them. I've received many e-mails asking me to propose them a few good books regarding Linux commands, administration and for specific distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora etc. So, I've search for a few good books. Here they are. Happy reading!

Linux Books

Ubuntu guides

Ubuntu is a free Operating System based on Debian GNU/Linux. It has been rated as the most popular Linux distribution amongst Linux users according to Distrowatch. As it happens every six months a new version of Ubuntu has been released. Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is here! Below you can find some helpful tutorials for old and new users!

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Post Installation Guide
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Post Installation Guide
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Post Installation Guide
How to install Ubuntu Linux on Windows using VirtualBox

Fedora 12 Installation Guide

Fedora 12, codenamed Constantine, is released! Just for the info, Fedora is an RPM based Linux Distribution, an Operating system in other words, developed by the community supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains only free and Open Source software. Some of Fedora's 12 new features are Gnome 2.28, KDE 4.3, better web cam support!, and many others.

Fedora 12 Installation and Post-Installation Guide
Fedora 11 Installation and Post-Installation Guide
Fedora 11 Installation and Post-Installation Guide in Chinese

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19. Other Useful Applications

* unrar

su -c 'yum install unrar'

* FTP Client

Pretty good FTP client with ssh support.

su -c 'yum install gftp'

Another popular FTP, FTPS and SFTP client is Filezilla.

su -c 'yum install filezilla'

* chm Reader

For GNOME users gtk based chm viewer

su -c 'yum install gnochm'

* eMule Client

su -c 'yum install amule'

* linuxdcpp

su -c 'yum install linuxdcpp'

* Partition Editor

For GNOME users gtk based partition manipulation program

su -c 'yum install gparted'

For KDE users Qt based partition manipulation program

su -c 'yum install qtparted'

* Google Earth

Go to this page http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html and download GoogleEarthLinux.bin. Next open a terminal and go to the folder you have saved it, ~/Download is the default. Install it by typing:

su -c 'sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin'

If you have SELinux enabled before you run Google Earth for the first time you should run the following commands or you will get many AVC Denial messages.

su -
restorecon -v '/var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libminizip.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/librender.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libauth.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libevll.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libflightsim.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libinput_plugin.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libgooglesearch.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libcollada.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libgps.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libmeasure.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/opt/google-earth/libbasicingest.so'

Now you can find it under Applications -> Internet -> Google Earth. Notice that in order it to run ok you must have installed drivers for your video card.

If you want to uninstall Google Earth in Fedora Linux don't look among the add/delete programs because it wasn't installed using a .rpm package (the equivalent of .deb in Ubuntu). If you haven't changed the default install path of Google Earth you can find an uninstall script in /opt/google-earth. Just run it and Google Earth will be removed.

* gtkpod

A song management program for Apple's well know iPod.

su -c 'yum install gtkpod'

It'll be installed under Applications -> Sound & Video -> GtkPod

* Skype

You can just visit Skype's site and click on the Fedora 10+ package. Select to open it with 'Package Installer (Default) and you are done.

To increase your microphone volume you have to install the PulseAudio Volume Control application.

su -c 'yum install pavucontrol'
Run it from Applications -> Sound & Video -> PulseAudio Volume Control




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