running linux!

"It's sexy. Let's face it: there's nothing particularly daring or edgy about running the 
latest shrink-wrapped release from the world's largest software company (need we 
name names?). Linux has an attitude, a philosophy, and a joie de vivre that you're not 
going to find in any other operating system. There's much, much more to Linux than a 
bunch of bits on a CD-ROM . . . can you dig it? "

"Linux is just the operating system kernel"

cool keyboard shortcuts "stty function key"

UDF - file system for DVDs and CDs

this book is long-winded

tar compression retains permissions

look into imageMagick...

x11 is a windowing manager and KDE and Gnome are two desktop systems

samba allows windows contact through linux

because its probably hard to fill a book with just linux info, there is a lot of general purpose info.

"if list 
then  
  commands 
elif list 
then  
  commands 
else  
  commands 
fi 
where list is just a sequence of commands to be used as the conditional expression for the 
if and elif (short for "else if") commands. The conditional is considered to be true if the 
exit status of the list is zero (unlike Boolean expressions in C, in shell terminology an exit 
status of zero indicates successful completion). The commands enclosed in the conditionals 
are simply commands to execute if the appropriate list is true. The then after each list 
must be on a new line to distinguish it from the list itself; alternately, you can terminate the 
list with a ;. The same holds true for the commands.  
"