Slackware Linux Basics

For Slackware Linux 9.1

Daniël de Kok

Paul Beurskens

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Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Slackware is a registered trademark of BSDi and Patrick Volkerding.


Table of Contents
1. An introduction to Slackware Linux
1.1. About this book
1.2. What is Linux?
1.3. What is GNU/Linux?
1.4. What is Slackware Linux?
1.5. Slackware Linux on CD-ROM
2. Sources of help
2.1. On your system
2.2. On the internet
3. Networking configuration
3.1. Hardware
3.2. Configuration of interfaces
3.3. Resolving
3.4. IPv4 Forwarding
4. Networking services
4.1. The internet super server
4.2. Caching nameserver
4.3. The Apache webserver
5. Pkgtools
5.1. Introduction
5.2. pkgtool
5.3. installpkg
5.4. upgradepkg
5.5. removepkg
6. Files and directories
6.1. The basics
6.2. Permissions
7. Process management
7.1. Introduction
A. GNU Free Documentation License
A.1. PREAMBLE
A.2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
A.3. VERBATIM COPYING
A.4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
A.5. MODIFICATIONS
A.6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
A.7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
A.8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
A.9. TRANSLATION
A.10. TERMINATION
A.11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
A.12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents