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1 absg27.zip 28-04-2004 2365 Kb. 0
The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a
reference and a tutorial on shell scripting.
This comprehensive book (the equivalent of about
556 print pages) covers almost every aspect of
shell scripting. It contains 293 profusely
commented illustrative examples, and a number of
tables. Not just a shell scripting tutorial,
this book also provides an introduction to basic
programming techniques, such as sorting and
recursion. It is well suited for either
individual study or classroom use. Formats:
HTML,TXT,PDF,PluckerDB and Postscript 
2 absg37.zip 31-10-2005 479 Kb. 0
"Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" v3.7. This
e-book tutorial and reference is the
equivalent of a 672-page print book.  With
317 illustrative examples (including such
goodies as an anti-spammer script), the book
covers virtually every aspect of scripting.
This e-book contains printable reference
cards, just like commercially available
computer tutorials. 
3 absgd21.rar 15-09-2003 544 Kb. 0
The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is
both a reference and a tutorial on
shell scripting. This comprehensive
book (the equivalent of about 544
print pages) covers almost every
aspect of shell scripting. It
contains 265 profusely commented
illustrative examples, and a
number of tables
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4 absgd25.zip 18-02-2004 396 Kb. 0
Advanced Bash Scripting-guide v2.5 
5 athpshw.zip 03-04-2004 8 Kb. 0
How to enable the power-saving functionality of
the Athlon/Duron/AthlonXP processor on some
motherboards/chipsets. This is usefull for
saving Power and lowering the Temperature of the
CPU and the System. (It also will reduce noise
if you use temperature controlled fans in your
case/on your cpu heatsink. 
6 bbg1.zip 28-04-2004 1646 Kb. 0
The Bash Guide for Beginners gets you started
with Bash scripting and bridges the gap between
the Bash HOWTO and the Advanced Bash Scripting
Guide. Everybody who wants to make life easier
on themselves, power users and sysadmins alike,
can benefit from reading this practical course.
The guide contains lots of examples and
exercises at the end of each chapter,
demonstrating the theory and helping you
practice. Bash is available on a wide variety of
UNIX, Linux, MS Windows and other systems
Formats: HTML, TXT, PDF, Postscript, PluckerDB 
7 bogomips.zip 02-05-2004 228 Kb. 0
BogoMips mini-Howto Formats TXT, HTML, PDF and
PluckerDB 
8 cdd75.rar 15-09-2003 23 Kb. 0
This document is intended to show
prospective users or administrators of a
GNU/Linux system the range of choices
open to them when deciding on a
distribution for the first time. It also
aims to help experienced users track the
state of the GNU/Linux distributions
market. It emphatically does not aim to
be a complete list of all GNU/Linux
distributions for all platforms and in
all languages. The focus is on popular
English-language distributions;
specifically compiled for the Intel
platform; available on CD-ROM; and easily
accessible to the first-time user.
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9 dehw12.zip 18-10-2003 22 Kb. 0
A method is described for encrypting a hard
disk, either in whole or in part, with the
encryption key stored on an external medium
for increased security. 
10 evmsug.zip 15-04-2004 757 Kb. 0
This book is designed to address user's
questions about Enterprise Volume Management
System (EVMS) and provide a context for using
EVMS. For additional information about EVMS or
to ask questions specific to your distribution,
the EVMS mailing lists are an excellent
resource. Formats INclude: HTML, PDF,
PostScript,Text and PluckerDB 
11 fbblnx.zip 30-03-2004 56 Kb. 0
This mini-HOWTO covers the installation and use
of the most popular amateur packet-radio BBS
server software "FBB". That software works under
Linux, DOS and Windows operating systems. It
serves as a bulletin board system (BBS), a
mailbox for personal messages, a database for
various texts, documents and binary files, a
server for small useful calculations etc. Packet
radio is a way of connecting computers via
amateur radio stations. 
12 glinhw.zip 28-03-2004 14 Kb. 0
In this HOWTO I will explain how you install a
new version of glibc on your system. 
13 htadr11.rar 15-09-2003 74 Kb. 0
This document hopes to enlighten you on
how to do more with Linux 2.2/2.4
routing. Unbeknownst to most users, you
already run tools which allow you to do
spectacular things. Commands like route
and ifconfig are actually very thin
wrappers for the very powerful iproute2
infrastructure.
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14 ipmasq.rar 02-11-2002 959 Kb. 0
The IP Masquerade HOWTO is the LDP HOWTO
document that contains instructions on
understanding, configuring, and
troubleshooting the Linux IP Masquerade
feature-set. It covers topics such as
IPFWADM, IPCHAINS, IPTABLES, PORTFW,
stronger firewalls, multiple networks, and
configuring many client operating systems.
It also has an extensive FAQ section.
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15 absguide.zip 25-11-2003 373 Kb. 0
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide in HTML format.
scripting Mendel Cooper
<thegrendel@theriver.com> 
16 bdisk45.zip 20-01-2002 256 Kb. 0
The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO describes how to design
and build boot/root diskettes for Linux on the
Intel platform. These disks can be used as
rescue disks or to test new system components.
You should be reasonably familiar with system
administration tas 
17 belhowto.zip 27-01-2002 259 Kb. 0
The Belgian-HOWTO describes how to tweak
Linux for Belgian users and lists Linux user
groups, businesses, and other resources in
Belgium.
  
18 lbkrest.zip 02-05-2004 238 Kb. 0
Imagine your disk drive has just become a very
expensive hockey puck. Imagine you have had a
fire, and your computer case now looks like
something Salvador Dal? would like to paint. Now
what? Total restore, sometimes called bare metal
recovery, is the process of rebuilding a
computer after a catastrophic failure. In order
to make a total restoration, you must have
complete backups, not only of your file system,
but of partition information and other data.
This HOWTO is a step-by-step tutorial on how to
back up a Linux computer so as to be able to
make a bare metal recovery, and how to make that
bare metal recovery. It includes some related
scripts. FORMATS: TXT. PDF, HTML PluckerDB 
19 ldpag42.zip 10-04-2004 2364 Kb. 0
This guide describes the process of submitting
and publishing a document with The Linux
Documentation Project (TLDP). It includes
information about the tools, toolchains and
formats used by TLDP. The document's primary
audience is new TLDP authors, but it also
contains information for seasoned documentation
authors Include: HTML, PDF, PostScript, Text and
PluckerDB DOC File formats 
20 liloln.zip 30-03-2004 22 Kb. 0
LILO is the most used Linux Loader for the x86
flavor of Linux; I'll call it Lilo rather than
LILO here because I don't appreciate uppercase.
This file describes some typical Lilo
installations. It's intended as a supplement to
the Lilo User's Guide. I think examples are
informative even if your setup isn't much like
mine. I hope this saves you trouble. Since
Lilo's own documentation is very good, who's
interested in the details is referred to
/usr/doc/lilo* 
21 linuxgm.zip 20-01-2002 32 Kb. 0
This document is a stepping stone to get the
most common problems resolved and to give people
the knowledge to begin thinking intelligently
about what is going on with their games. Just as
with anything else on Linux, you need to know a
little more a 
22 lnipv6.zip 28-03-2004 102 Kb. 0
The goal of the Linux IPv6 HOWTO is to answer
both basic and advanced questions about IPv6 on
the Linux operating system. This HOWTO will
provide the reader with enough information to
install, configure, and use IPv6 applications on
Linux machines. 
23 lnwnt.zip 30-03-2004 27 Kb. 0
This mini-HOWTO covers some ways on how to
install both Linux and Windows NT on the same
computer and how to boot either of them from
within LILO menu. There is also another
mini-HOWTO "Linux+NT-Loader" that covers how to
boot either of them from within NT Loader menu.
As I consider Windows 2000 to be Windows NT
version 5.0 this mini-HOWTO also covers
upgrading from NT 4.0 to 2000. 
24 lnxcrypt.tgz 17-03-2004 8 Kb. 0
This document explains how to create encrypted
file systems using the Cryptoloop functionality.
Cryptoloop is part of the CryptoAPI in the 2.6
Linux kernel series. 
25 lnxfin.tgz 17-03-2004 14 Kb. 0
This document describes how to localize
GNU/Linux for Finnish users and is intended to
replace Pekka Taipale's original Finnish-HOWTO
which has not been updated for some time. This
document derives from original Finnish HOWTO and
more importantly from the Danish-HOWTO by Niels
Kristian Bech Jensen. 
26 lnxflash.tgz 17-03-2004 21 Kb. 0
This document describes procedures for
installing USB Flash Memory devices and the way
of formatting them for various file systems such
as vfat (the way they usually come) and ext2
(the way they fit in better with Linux). It is
also described how to partition the device in
two sections with different file types. 
27 lnxipv6.tgz 17-03-2004 101 Kb. 0
The goal of the Linux IPv6 HOWTO is to answer
both basic and advanced questions about IPv6 on
the Linux operating system. This HOWTO will
provide the reader with enough information to
install, configure, and use IPv6 applications on
Linux machines. 
28 lnxnc.tgz 17-03-2004 17 Kb. 0
This document tries to describe how to hook up a
IBM Netstation / Netvista to your local network
using a Linux box as server 
29 lnxpart.tgz 17-03-2004 19 Kb. 0
This Linux Mini-HOWTO teaches you how to plan
and create partitions on IDE and SCSI hard
drives. It discusses partitioning terminology
and considers size and location issues. Use of
the fdisk partitioning utility for creating and
recovering of partition tables is covered. 
30 lughw17.zip 18-10-2003 26 Kb. 0
The Linux User Group HOWTO is a guide to
founding, maintaining, and growing a Linux
user group 
31 lvmhw.zip 23-04-2004 290 Kb. 0
This document describes how to build, install,
and configure LVM for Linux. A basic description
of LVM is also included. This version of the
HowTo is for LVM 2 with device-mapper, as well
as LVM 1.0.8. 
32 lvmhw08.zip 17-04-2004 290 Kb. 0
This document describes how to build, install,
and configure LVM for Linux. A basic description
of LVM is also included. This version of the
HowTo is for LVM 2 with device-mapper, as well
as LVM 1.0.8. Formats included: HTML, PDF, Text
and PluckerDB 
33 lvmhwto.zip 05-05-2004 296 Kb. 0
This document describes how to build,
install, and configure LVM for Linux. A
basic description of LVM is also
included. This version of the HowTo is
for LVM 2 with device-mapper, as well
as LVM 1.0.8. 
34 medlnx.zip 30-03-2004 23 Kb. 0
The Linux Medical How-To will serve as a nice
and convenient meta resource directing
interested parties to important sites, a few
well-established/meta mailing lists. 
35 modhw104.zip 18-10-2003 44 Kb. 0
This is the HOWTO for Linux loadable kernel
modules (LKMs). It explains what they are and
how to use and create them. It also includes
documentation of parameters and other details
of use of some particular modules 
36 nclnhw.zip 28-03-2004 18 Kb. 0
This document tries to describe how to hook up a
IBM Netstation / Netvista to your local network
using a Linux box as server. 
37 ncursepg.zip 20-01-2002 56 Kb. 0
This document is intended to be an "All in One"
guide for programming with ncurses and its
sister libraries. We graduate from a simple
"Hello World" program to more complex form
manipulation. No prior experience in ncurses is
assumed. 
38 olsripv6.zip 23-04-2004 370 Kb. 0
This document describes the software and
procedures to set up and use Optimized Link
State Routing Protocol (OLSR) with IPv6 for
Linux. OLSR is used as a routing protocol for
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET) (also called
"spontaneous network"). 
39 pcwchw.zip 31-03-2004 35 Kb. 0
The Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO document
guides you through the installation of the
Postfix mail transportation agent (MTA) and the
Cyrus IMAP server. The goal is a fully
functional high-performance mail system with
user administration via Web-cyradm, a Web
interface. Data like virtual users, aliases,
etc., are stored in a MySQL database. 
40 unbuyln.zip 28-03-2004 55 Kb. 0
This is your one-stop resource for information
about how to buy and configure x86 hardware for
cheap, powerful Unix systems. 
41 upshw1.zip 18-10-2003 8 Kb. 0
An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is an
important thing to have if you live in an
area where power outages are at all common,
especially if you run a mail/DNS/Web server
that must be up 24/7. This HOWTO will teach
you things you need to know to select a UPS
intelligently and make it work with your
open-source operating system. 
42 wireless.zip 20-01-2002 3 Kb. 0
Wireless Sync HOWTO Using jpilot to sync your
PalmOS device to your desktop across a wireless
(802.11b) network. 
43 abshowto.zip 24-02-2001 246 Kb. 0
Advanced Bash-Scripting HOWTO. A guide to shell
scripting, using Bash by Mendel Cooper. This
file contains abs-HOWTO-0.3.tar.gz 
44 lnaghtml.zip 26-03-2001 329 Kb. 0
Linux Newbie Administrator Guide (LNAG) by Stan
and Peter Klimas - Simple Answers to Questions
Frequently Asked by Beginners who Install Linux
on their Home Computers or Administer their
Home Network 
45 lnag_pdf.zip 26-03-2001 370 Kb. 0
Linux Newbie Administrator Guide (LNAG) by Stan
and Peter Klimas - Simple Answers to Questions
Frequently Asked by Beginners who Install Linux
on their Home Computers or Administer their
Home Network.  PDF Format. 
46 linppt.zip 27-08-2001 661 Kb. 0
An Introduction to Linux v1.12 (Final) A compres
ed .zip file of an A+ rated slideshow on Linux
in MS PowerPoint format. 
47 lfs-13.zip 05-10-2001 29 Kb. 0
Linux From Scratch HOWTO
Gerard Beekmans
Version 1.3, February 2000
This document describes the process of
creating your own Linux system from scratch
from an already installed Linux distribution,
using nothing but the source code of software
that we need 
48 cnrmodem.zip 06-10-2001 13 Kb. 0
Conexant/Rockwell modem HOWTO
A guide to using Conexant and Rockwell
chipset based Software modems under
Linux. 
49 hdrhow.zip 09-12-2001 6 Kb. 0
The Header and Envelope rewrite mini-HOWTO
explains how to rewrite your from address
differently in the mail header and the mail
envelope. This may be necessary, for
example, if your ISP requires you to send
mail with one address, but you are
subscribed to mailing lists with a different
address, or want others to see a forwarding
address instead of your ISP's address. 
50 yalf213.rar 19-01-2003 89 Kb. 0
Yet another Linux FAQ is a comprehensive FAQ
about the Linux Operating System. It is a
great document for Linux beginners to read.
This FAQ tries to help those new to Linux
help themselves. It covers topics such as
kernel recompilation and X Window System
configuration.
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