Slackware Linux Basics

For Slackware Linux 9.1

Daniël de Kok

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Table of Contents
1. About this book
1.1. About this book
2. An introduction to Slackware Linux
2.1. What is Linux?
2.2. What is GNU/Linux?
2.3. What is Slackware Linux?
2.4. Slackware Linux on CD-ROM
3. Sources of help
3.1. On your system
3.2. On the internet
4. Installing Slackware Linux
4.1. Booting the installation CD-ROM
4.2. Partitioning a hard disk
5. Files and directories
5.1. Introduction
5.2. The basics
5.3. Permissions
5.4. Mounting filesystems
6. Process management
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Process basics
7. Printer configuration
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Preparations
7.3. Configuration
8. XFree86
8.1. X Configuration
8.2. Window manager
9. Pkgtools
9.1. Introduction
9.2. pkgtool
9.3. installpkg
9.4. upgradepkg
9.5. removepkg
10. Networking configuration
10.1. Hardware
10.2. Configuration of interfaces
10.3. Resolving
10.4. IPv4 Forwarding
11. Networking services
11.1. The internet super server
11.2. Caching nameserver
11.3. The Apache webserver
12. XFree86
12.1. X Configuration
12.2. Window manager
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