Linux User Group of Gaia's Tip, Tricks, How-tos, and FAQs

About this Site

This site is full of Tips, Tricks, How- tos, FAQs, & everything else you need to know when working with your Linux OS, no matter if you just started using it, want to learn more about it, or have been using Linux for a while now chances are that there is something in here for you. This site is owned and maintained by The Linux Users Group of Gaia (L.U.G.G.), we are in no way affileated with Gaiaonline but L.U.G.G. consistes of members of Gaiaonline.

Table Of Contents

About This Site

- About this Site

General

- Auto Config Xorg
- How to burn and run an ISO file

Downloading and Installing Linux Distros

- How to Install Ubuntu
- Downloading openSUSE
- How to Install Ubuntu on a Mac G3
- Duel Booting with Windows Vista

The Bash Shell

- Editing a bash command
- Bash Completion
- Special Shell variables
- Bash shell shortcuts
- Configuring Xterm in Linux
- A short guide to bash shell scripting
- Enhanching System prompt $ps1
- Screen
- Find number of days since Jan 1
- Mount your files the Linux way
- Script

Audio and Video

- Bunring audio and data CDs in Linux
- How to play VCD .dat files using mplayer
- Converting a VCD .dat file to mp3
- An easy way to play songs remotely/have a media player...

Installing Files in Linux

- RPM package manager
- Autopackage
- Convert between RPM, DEB, and TAR package formats
- How to make your own package CDs for offline use
- Intalling Mono in Linux
- Configuring Java in linux
- Installing Active x in Linux
- How to install beryl on Ubuntu

Tricks wind Editors in Linux

- VIM
- Using Abiword to convert filetypes on the command line

Network Security

- iptables (starters guide)
- Designing a firewall using Iptables
- TCP Wrappers in Linux
- Apache Webserver

Network Tips

- Routing, NAT, and Gateways explained
- Apache
- Understanding DNS
- DNS on Linux
- Who owns which port
- NIS client (server configuration)
- DHCP server configuration
- Change the hostname of your machine
- Intergrating Mac, Linux, and Windows machines in a network with centerlized login

Mail Server and Clients

- Sendmail
- Sendmail configuration
- Change your MTA
- Redirecting roots mail to another user
- Mutt
- fetchmail and Gmail
- Creating a Linux mail server

System Administration

- Different ways of locking a users account in Linux
- Preventing a non-root user from shutting down / restarting the machine
- Disk Quotas in Linux
- Change system log in banner in Linux
- Enable centerlized login with Linux
- System Logging explaned
- Tips to secure your computer
- Find
- Cron
- SSH
- Setting up SSH in Linux
- SUDO
- Job Control
- Sharing Directories among several users
- /proc filesystem explained
- NFS
- hdparm
- Adding a swap file to your Linux system
- chroot
- Get exact control over your files and directories in Linux

Linux Filesystem

- Mounting NTFS filesystem in Linux
- Autofs
- LVM creation
- Resizing LVM

Linux Backups

- CPIO
- Backup your data with rsync

Hardware Configuration

- Confinguring the Rockwell chipset winmodem in Linux
- Configuring sound in Linux
- Configuring Microsoft serial intellimouse
- NVIDEA
- Installing HD in Linux
- How to install a network card in Linux
- Assigning a IP adress to your NIC
- Setting up multiple IP adresses on a single NIC
- How to change the MAC address of your machine
- Find the speed of your NIC

Linux Kernel

- Compilation of Linux kernel from source (2.4 only)
- Compilation of Linux kernel from source (2.6 only)

Database Tips

- MySQL Cheatsheet

Linux GUI Configurations

- Enable restart option on KDE menu

Internet and Linux

- Connection to a BSNL internet dailup account

Linux Eyecandy

- 3ddesktop
- Linux EyeCandy
- New Desktop theme
- Skinning your Desktop
- Windows managers in Linux
- Tag your files in GNOME
- How to use windows fonts in Mozilla