Linux for Non-Geeks: A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow Guidebook

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Chapter 1: Becoming a Penguinista

Figure 1-1: Tux, the Linux mascot

Chapter 2: Making Commitments

Figure 2-1: RawWrite under Windows
Figure 2-2: Setting the default OS on a dual-boot system
Figure 2-3: Selecting programs and packages to install
Figure 2-4: Selecting sound and video package details
Figure 2-5: Installing Fedora Core
Figure 2-6: Creating a boot diskette
Figure 2-7: Choose the installation disk or partition
Figure 2-8: Confirm the deletion of the partition
Figure 2-9: Select the free space and add a new partition
Figure 2-10: Create a root partition
Figure 2-11: A completed partition setup
Figure 2-12: The post-installation Welcome screen

Chapter 3: A New Place to Call Home

Figure 3-1: The Fedora Core login screen
Figure 3-2: The GNOME desktop
Figure 3-3: Viewing thumbnails in a Nautilus window
Figure 3-4: Viewing an enlarged image in a Nautilus window
Figure 3-5: Using the Tree view in the Nautilus side pane
Figure 3-6: Using the Nautilus Bookmarks menu
Figure 3-7: Files and folders with the verboten symbol
Figure 3-8: Changing permissions in the Nautilus Properties window
Figure 3-9: The Run Application dialog box
Figure 3-10: Search results for kolf.png in the Search for Files window
Figure 3-11: The GNOME Panel
Figure 3-12: Creating a launcher in a drawer
Figure 3-13: Choosing an icon for an application
Figure 3-14: Your newly customized GNOME Panel
Figure 3-15: The GNOME Panel Properties window
Figure 3-16: A Mac OS X–like desktop with panels at the top and right side of the screen
Figure 3-17: Saving a screenshot
Figure 3-18: Taking a screenshot with the GIMP

Chapter 4: More Than Webbed Feet

Figure 4-1: Standard telephone and Ethernet connectors compared
Figure 4-2: Serial port and connector
Figure 4-3: Using KPPP to enter your Internet settings
Figure 4-4: KPPP displaying the results from a successful modem query
Figure 4-5: KPPP’s “can’t find modem” message
Figure 4-6: Selecting another device location in the KPPP Configuration window
Figure 4-7: Setting up a new account in KPPP
Figure 4-8: Your new account information as shown in the main KPPP window
Figure 4-9: The maximized and minimized (Panel) views of the KPPP logged-on window
Figure 4-10: Opening a link in a new tab in Mozilla
Figure 4-11: A link opened in a new tab in Mozilla
Figure 4-12: Blocking pop-up windows in the Mozilla Preferences window
Figure 4-13: Using Mozilla Composer to create Web pages
Figure 4-14: Using Evolution for email, appointments, tasks, and weather reports
Figure 4-15: Adding instant messaging accounts to Gaim
Figure 4-16: Signing on with Gaim
Figure 4-17: Looking up words with the GNOME Dictionary
Figure 4-18: Using gFTP to download via FTP
Figure 4-19: Chatting with X-Chat

Chapter 5: Dressing up the Bird

Figure 5-1: Creating a new user account
Figure 5-2: The new user account displayed in the User Manager window
Figure 5-3: Adding folders to your Home folder
Figure 5-4: Choosing emblems for your folders
Figure 5-5: Choosing a background for your Nautilus window
Figure 5-6: Selecting emblems from the Nautilus side pane
Figure 5-7: Changing your desktop background
Figure 5-8: Selecting a background image
Figure 5-9: Selecting the destination folder for your download
Figure 5-10: Your newly wallpapered desktop
Figure 5-11: Selecting a theme in GNOME
Figure 5-12: The new look of your Home folder window
Figure 5-13: Installing a new theme
Figure 5-14: Customizing the Login Manager
Figure 5-15: Setting screensaver preferences
Figure 5-16: Setting sounds to play for different events in GNOME
Figure 5-17: Mozilla makes sure that you want to go on with the installation
Figure 5-18: Mozilla with the Sky Pilot Classic theme installed

Chapter 6: Gutenbird

Figure 6-1: The empty Printer Configuration window
Figure 6-2: Starting up the Print Queue wizard
Figure 6-3: Checking the queue type for your new printer queue
Figure 6-4: Selecting the printer model for your new printer queue
Figure 6-5: Making temporary printing changes in the print Properties window
Figure 6-6: Setting driver options in the Edit a Print Queue window
Figure 6-7: Print queues listed in the Printer Configuration window
Figure 6-8: Setting a default print queue in the GNOME Print Manager
Figure 6-9: A print queue icon in the GNOME Panel
Figure 6-10: Canceling a print job

Chapter 7: Putting Your Data on Ice

Figure 7-1: Formatting a floppy disk
Figure 7-2: Playing CDs with the GNOME CD Player
Figure 7-3: Entering playlist info with the CDDB Track Editor
Figure 7-4: An empty Nautilus CD Creator window
Figure 7-5: Setting options before writing a CD
Figure 7-6: X-CD-Roast copies audio and data CDs
Figure 7-7: Setting up X-CD-Roast to read a CD you want to duplicate
Figure 7-8: Selecting an ISO to burn to CD in X-CD-Roast

Chapter 8: RPM Isn’t a 1980’s Atlanta-Based Band

Figure 8-1: The sliding-tile puzzle game, Skoosh
Figure 8-2: Preparing to install Skoosh
Figure 8-3: Playing Frozen-Bubble
Figure 8-4: The Package Not Found warning window
Figure 8-5: Using the Package Management window to add or remove packages
Figure 8-6: Using Epiphany to browse the Web
Figure 8-7: Selecting Epiphany to be installed

Chapter 9: Simple Kitten Ways

Figure 9-1: Putting the Terminal in perspective
Figure 9-2: The Terminal application
Figure 9-3: Output from the df command
Figure 9-4: Output from the df command with the -h flag
Figure 9-5: Results of your locate search
Figure 9-6: The meaning of permissions numbers
Figure 9-7: Seeking wisdom from pyWings
Figure 9-8: PyWings bestows its wisdom
Figure 9-9: Installing RPMs with the rpm command
Figure 9-10: File Roller extracts and creates file archives
Figure 9-11: Using File Roller to extract files from a tarball
Figure 9-12: Predicting the future with pyChing
Figure 9-13: Flash content before installing the Flash plug-in
Figure 9-14: Viewing Flash content after installing the Flash plug-in

Chapter 10: Yes, Yet Another Way

Figure 10-1: Downloading and installing Synaptic
Figure 10-2: The MPlayer video player
Figure 10-3: The gxine video player
Figure 10-4: Using Synaptic to download and install MPlayer
Figure 10-5: The download progress indicator in Synaptic
Figure 10-6: The installation progress indicator in Synaptic
Figure 10-7: Adding repositories to the sources list in Synaptic

Chapter 11: Dining on Tarballs

Figure 11-1: The Xmahjongg game
Figure 11-2: The contents of the folder created by extracting the Xmahjongg tarball
Figure 11-3: Reading a tarball’s INSTALL file in a Nautilus window
Figure 11-4: XPenguins in action
Figure 11-5: The XPenguins Panel applet (and some more penguins in action)

Chapter 12: Data on Ice Revisited

Figure 12-1: A USB flash drive and card reader
Figure 12-2: A USB connector plug and USB ports
Figure 12-3: Looking at a USB storage device in the Hardware Browser
Figure 12-4: Modifying the fstab file

Chapter 13: Tux Rocks

Figure 13-1: Grip displaying CD information retrieved from the Internet
Figure 13-2: Choosing to just rip or rip and encode in Grip
Figure 13-3: Setting up Grip to encode MP3s
Figure 13-4: Sound Juicer displaying CD information
Figure 13-5: Setting the default location for Sound Juicer audio files
Figure 13-6: The Rhythmbox sound player
Figure 13-7: Setting up Rhythmbox
Figure 13-8: Selecting music by artist in Rhythmbox
Figure 13-9: The three components of XMMS
Figure 13-10: Making XMMS the default audio player
Figure 13-11: Adding songs to the XMMS playlist via the Load Files window
Figure 13-12: A new playlist shown in the XMMS playlist window
Figure 13-13: Instructing Mozilla to play Ogg streams with XMMS
Figure 13-14: Inputting proxy settings for Ogg Vorbis streams in XMMS
Figure 13-15: Changing XMMS skins: before and after
Figure 13-16: The XMMS Skin Selector window
Figure 13-17: XMMS components stacked in classic stereo configuration
Figure 13-18: Modifying audio file tag info with EasyTAG
Figure 13-19: Adjusting audio files with Audacity
Figure 13-20: Filling out the download form on the RealPlayer Web page
Figure 13-21: Downloading the RealOne Player
Figure 13-22: Running the RealOne Player

Chapter 14: Brush-Wielding Penguins

Figure 14-1: Manipulating a digital image in the GIMP
Figure 14-2: Playing with Tux Paint
Figure 14-3: Creating real graphics with Sodipodi
Figure 14-4: Viewing images in a folder with gThumb
Figure 14-5: Scaling an image in gThumb
Figure 14-6: Adding a new emblem to your collection
Figure 14-7: A new emblem (Kitten Stuff) in the Emblems window
Figure 14-8: Modifying an icon in Icon Editor
Figure 14-9: Scanning with Sane
Figure 14-10: Configuring gtKam to work with your digital camera
Figure 14-11: Accessing your images with gtKam
Figure 14-12: Deleting images from your camera with gtKam

Chapter 15: Penguins Back to Work

Figure 15-1: The two types of tips in OpenOffice.org: standard (top) and extended (bottom)
Figure 15-2: The Function toolbar in OpenOffice.org
Figure 15-3: The Navigator window
Figure 15-4: The Gallery
Figure 15-5: A letter created in OpenOffice.org’s word processor — Writer
Figure 15-6: A spreadsheet created in OpenOffice.org Calc
Figure 15-7: Preparing a presentation in OpenOffice.org Impress
Figure 15-8: A newsletter created (and displayed) in OpenOffice.org Draw
Figure 15-9: The other Linux word processor — AbiWord
Figure 15-10: Setting up an hourly command with KTimer
Figure 15-11: Making notes with KJots
Figure 15-12: Creating a tarball or ZIP file with File Roller
Figure 15-13: The results of an F-Prot Antivirus scan

Chapter 16: Font Feathered Frenzy

Figure 16-1: Font icons display the first letter in the font
Figure 16-2: Previewing a font by double-clicking the font icon
Figure 16-3: Setting system font preferences
Figure 16-4: Using PfaEdit to create fonts

Chapter 17: Tux Speaks Your Language

Figure 17-1: A Hindi Web page viewed without proper font support
Figure 17-2: The Hindi Web page after the indic.ttf font is installed
Figure 17-3: Inputting characters with the Unicode Character Map
Figure 17-4: Adding keymaps to the Keyboard Layout Switcher
Figure 17-5: Desktop icons in English, Hebrew, Japanese, Icelandic, and Turkish
Figure 17-6: Using the Japanese IME
Figure 17-7: Korea (Hangug) written horizontally in Hangul
Figure 17-8: An example of the clustering process in the Korean IME
Figure 17-9: A KVocTrain multiple-choice quiz
Figure 17-10: FlashKard in input and quiz modes
Figure 17-11: Looking up words in StarDict
Figure 17-12: StarDict provides inline definitions for selected text

Chapter 18: Tux Untethered

Figure 18-1: All you need for a Wi-Fi setup: an access point and a network interface card
Figure 18-2: Wired and wireless Internet connections compared
Figure 18-3: A pair of PCMCIA slots
Figure 18-4: Results of the lsmod command showing the loaded drivers for a wireless NIC
Figure 18-5: Network Configuration window
Figure 18-6: Adding your wireless device with the Add Device wizard
Figure 18-7: A new wireless card added to the list of network devices
Figure 18-8: Configuring your wireless NIC to allow for easy user activation
Figure 18-9: Activating your network devices

Chapter 19: Leaving the Nest

Figure 19-1: Changing the auto-login settings in Fedora Core
Figure 19-2: Changing screen resolution
Figure 19-3: Customizing KDE with the KDE Control Center
Figure 19-4: An image gallery created in KDE’s Konqueror
Figure 19-5: Changing the default desktop environment with Desktop Switcher
Figure 19-6: Choosing files to update with Up2date
Figure 19-7: Choosing to upgrade a previous version of Fedora
Figure 19-8: md5sum results in the Terminal window
Figure 19-9: The man page for the cp command
Figure 19-10: Running the “Hey, good looking” Python program
Figure 19-11: The “Hey, good looking” program in its own window
Figure 19-12: Setting up Wine with WinSetuptk
Figure 19-13: The Windows game BookWorm running under Wine
Figure 19-14: A Windows installer running under Wine.

Chapter 20: What To Do If Tux Starts Acting Up

Figure 20-1: Connecting your CD drive to your new sound card

Appendix B: Resources

Figure B-1: Example of bottom posting

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