Linux mint essentials a practical guide to Linux Mint for the novice to the professional
A task-oriented look at Linux Mint, using actual real-world examples to stimulate learning. Each topic is presented in an easy-to-follow order, with hands-on activities to reinforce the content.If you are starting out with Linux from a different platform, this book is for you. No previous Linux expe...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Community experience distilled
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629271406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Meet Linux Mint; Why choose Linux?; What is a distribution?; Is Linux hard to learn?; What Mint does differently; Releases and support; Mint-specific tools; Interacting with the Linux Mint community; Activity - creating community and forum accounts; Meet the community; Summary; Chapter 2: Creating Boot Media and Installing Linux Mint; Which version to download; The Linux Mint KDE edition; The Linux Mint Xfce edition; The Linux Mint MATE edition
- The Linux Mint Cinnamon edition The different methods of installing Linux Mint; Activity - creating a bootable DVD; Activity - creating a bootable USB flash drive; Testing your live media; Planning your partitioning scheme; The installation process; To encrypt or not to encrypt; Summary; Chapter 3: Getting Acquainted with Cinnamon; Getting familiar with Cinnamon; Logging in to Cinnamon; Launching programs; Monitoring tasks; Utilizing workspaces; Notifications; Creating launchers; Bundled applications; File management with Nemo; Configuring the settings of Cinnamon
- Activity - changing the default search engine in Firefox Activity - changing themes; Summary; Chapter 4: Introduction to the Terminal; Why should we use the terminal?; Accessing the shell; Activity - executing commands; Navigating the file system; Managing files; Activity - the nano text editor; Reading manual pages with the man command; Searching for files; Using the watch command; Activity - introduction to scripting; Summary; Chapter 5: Utilizing Storage and Media; Accessing removable media; Activity - formatting flash drives; Mounting and unmounting volumes
- Automatically mounting volumes at boot timeActivity - analyzing disk usage; Understanding gibibytes versus gigabytes, and mebibytes versus megabytes; Burning CDs and DVDs; Using the USB Image Writer; Understanding how Universally Unique Identifiers work; Summary; Chapter 6: Installing and Removing Software; Managing packages in Linux Mint; Using the Mint Software Manager; Activity - installing new applications; Frozen Bubble; FileZilla; Minitube; Steam launcher; Removing applications; Using the Synaptic Package Manager; Configuring software sources; Advanced package management
- Keeping your system up to date Summary; Chapter 7: Enjoying Multimedia on Mint; Understanding issues concerning codecs; Playing music files; Activity - ripping an audio CD; Editing MP3 tags; Playing video files; Playing a DVD; Viewing photos; Editing photos with GIMP; Accessing your webcam; Recording your desktop; Summary; Chapter 8: Managing Users and Permissions; Creating new users; Changing passwords; Revoking access temporarily; Removing user accounts; Running commands or programs as other users; Administrative access via sudo and visudo; Understanding file and directory permissions
- Modifying file and directory permissions
