Welcome to the Linux Knowledge Base and Tutorial
so you want to learn how to use the Bash command line interface (terminal) on Unix/Linux. Or, it’s part of a subject you’re doing and so you’re learning it because you have to. Either way, that’s great. You’re learning how to use a powerful tool that can make your life easier, and make you awesome (more so than I’m sure you already are) .
Complete tutorial will cover the below things:-
- Installation – Installation of different flavor of Linux
- Un installation –
- The Command Line – What is it, how does it work and how do I get to one.
- Basic Navigation – An introduction to the Linux directory system and how to get around it.
- More About Files – Find out some interesting characteristics of files and directories in a Linux environment.
- Manual Pages – Learn how to make the most of the Linux commands you are learning.
- File Manipulation – How to make, remove, rename, copy and move files and directories.
- Vi Text Editor – Discover a powerful Linux based text editor.
- Wildcards – Also referred to as globing, this is a means to refer to several files in one go.
- Permissions – Learn to identify and change the permissions of files and directories and what the consequences of these are.
- Filters – An introduction to various commands that allow us to mangle data in interesting and useful ways.
- Grep and Regular Expressions – Master a powerful pattern matching language that is useful for analyzing and processing data.
- Piping and Redirection – Join commands together in powerful combinations.
- Process Management – See what is currently running on your Linux system and what state the system is in, learn how to kill programs that have hung and put jobs in the background.
- Scripting – Be happy. Get the computer to do tedious and repetitive tasks for you.
- Cheat Sheet – A quick reference for the main points covered in this tutorial.
- Administration
- Memory Management
- Networking
- Email System
- File System and File Management
- Utilities
Watching DVDs
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Recording from a Microphone
To enable you to capture live audio, using either your laptop’s built-in microphone or an external microphone plugged into theRead More »
Creating Your Own CDs
You can create audio CDs using Brasero, which aims to be a complete CD-burning suite, like Nero under Microsoft Windows.Read More »
Listening to Podcasts
Podcasts are audio files that are distributed by RSS (Real Simple Syndication). This sounds complicated, but it’s actually quite simple.Read More »
Tuning In to Online Radio Stations
With Banshee, you can listen to a number of predefined Internet radio stations or add your own. Provided the MP3Read More »
Purchasing from Online Music Stores
Banshee allows you to purchase albums from Ubuntu One and other online music stores, such as Amazon.com. To see whatRead More »
Playing Audio Files
Audio playback under Ubuntu is normally handled by the Banshee Media Player. This is a feature-packed piece of software thatRead More »
Issues Surrounding Multimedia Playback
Since the advent of digital distribution, record companies and content producers have sought ways of restricting the ability of usersRead More »
Cloud-Based Services
In the last few years ever-increasing processing and storage capacity led to reduction of their costs. It soon became evidentRead More »
Social Networking Applications
In the last few years, the use of social networks has experienced staggering growth. Sites like Twitter and Facebook serveRead More »
Ekiga
Ekiga, an open source alternative to Skype, offers a similar feature set. It can be installed using the Ubuntu SoftwareRead More »
Configuring Instant Messaging
Instant messaging is a way of chatting with other people in real time. It’s as if you were having aRead More »
Memos and Tasks in Ubuntu
The Memos and Tasks modes are the simplest components within Evolution. Memos mode allows you to jot down simple notes,Read More »
Calendars in Ubuntu
The Calendars mode of Evolution allows you to keep an appointments diary. Entries can be added in half-hour increments toRead More »
Contacts in Ubuntu
Evolution includes a powerful contact manager component that can catalog information about individuals. At its most basic, the contact managerRead More »