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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

You may have noticed that Firefox consumes too much memory. There is some configuration you can do to improve its memory leak. With the following lines the memory used from Firefox will be reduced. The only affect is that the back/front page will become a little slower since web pages won’t be saved in cache. However if you have a fast internet connection this isn’t noticeable.

Type about:config in the address bar. 

  • In the filter area type browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers Right click on it and choose Modify. Change its value in 0. This way you tell firefox not to store any pages in memory.
  • Then right click anywhere in the white space and choose New -> Boolean. Type config.trim_on_minimize and then set it to true. This way Windows will reclaim memory used by Firefox when it is minimized. This doesn’t work under Linux. 
If you want to make Firefox load pages faster you can also add the following lines
  • Right click -> New -> Integer Type nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This way you tell Firefox to wait 0 miliseconds before first displaying the page requested.

Next in the filter type network.http.pipelining.

  • Right click on network.http.pipelining and press toggle. It will change to true. This way Firefox will attempt to use pipelining in HTTP 1.1 connections. 
  • Right click on network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and press Modify. Change its value to 8. This way Firefox will make more requests at once for retrieving a page.
That's all! Just restart Firefox for the changes to take affect.

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Excellent guide axel ! gj smilies/smiley.gif
Nikos , March 16, 2007

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