In the next section of the appendix, we will take a look at the references listed by category. If you have an issue with editing and want to learn more about the vi editor, search the appendix for the heading on editing, for example.
Each chapter in this book includes a reference section with links to more or related information to the subject of the chapter. Use it to build a set of bookmarks to help you learn more about Linux in general and SUSE Linux in particular.
In this section, the references have been broken down into three major sections: systems administration, which cover X Window, Office applications, and so on; network and security references, which cover tutorials and information on IP addressing, name services, and so on; and programming and LAMP references, which, if you are getting into development on Linux, will surely help you out in your development efforts.
Following are a few general sites to look at first before you delve too deeply into other online sources. These will prove to be some of your best bets.
This set of links points to useful resources on installing Linux, booting, partitioning, and other installation and system-management tools.
http://irc.freenode.net A great starting place to go for information about SUSE, Linux, or anything related.
http://linux.dell.com Home of the Dell Linux Community. Dell is focused on Enterprise Linux and will sell you servers with either SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Server, but the community site offers mailing lists to support Linux users on desktops and laptops as well.
http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml Look here for Linux equivalents of Windows applications.
http://cdb.suse.de The SUSE hardware compatibility database.
http://www.linuxprinting.org Want to see if your printer works in Linux? Here's the place.
http://www.linux-usb.org The Linux-USB project, with information on supported devices and drivers.
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices The Linux USB devices database; search here for compatible devices.
http://www.linmodems.org Linux drivers for software-based modems.
http://www.linuxcertified.com and http://emperorlinux.com Two companies that deliver laptops with Linux preinstalled.
http://linux-laptop.net More information on Linux-friendly laptops.
http://www.linux1394.org The Linux FireWire project, with information on drivers for these devices.
http://elks.sourceforge.net The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset, an attempt to build some Linux functionality that will run on an Intel 286 and earlier processor.
http://www.lnx-bbc.org Home of the Linux Bootable Business Card project, producing a "live CD" in the shape of standard business card.
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html Home of GNU Parted, the free-software disk partitioning tool.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO/index.html From 2000, this Linux Installation HOWTO was written by programming guru Eric S. Raymond.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub The GRUB bootloader home page.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs Probably more than you want to know about the new Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/posix The IEEE POSIX information page.
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html Chet Ramey's bash page. He is the current maintainer of the bash project.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ The Bash Beginners Guide as a web page. If you visit www.tldp.org/Guides you can get this in other formats, along with other excellent Linux resources.
http://www.tcsh.org/Welcome The tcsh Wiki. Learn more and contribute your own knowledge about this C Shell.
http://www.zsh.org/ Home of the Z Shell. Select a nearby mirror.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-z.html Good introduction to the Z Shell from IBM.
http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ Home of the Midnight Commander. Screenshots, FAQs, and a to-do list for the developers.
http://www.dotfiles.com/ Explore contributed configuration files for various shells, editors, and other tools.
http://www.shelldorado.com/ Heiner's Shelldorado. Much scripting information for all shells, but a good introduction, too.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html The GNU/Emacs home page.
http://www.dotemacs.de/ The "very unofficial dotemacs home." Explore the many ways to configure your Emacs.
http://www.emacswiki.org Find new modules and helpful people here.
http://www.vim.org/ The Vim home page.
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/ Where to find documentation of all sorts for Vim.
http://www.yzis.org/ The new project from the developers of Kvim for the K Desktop Environment. The yzis editor is a new editor based on vim.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/ The home for Joe's Own Editor.
http://jedit.org/ The Java-based editor.
http://linux.about.com/od/embedded/l/blnewbie_toc.htm The Linux Newbie Administrator Guide. A basic overview.
http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/ The sudo main page. Downloads, documentation, and resources for this command.
http://www.x.org The X.org Foundation, the hub of X Window System development activity.
http://freedesktop.org The effort to produce minimum standards for free desktop software. Not a formal standards body, but a "collaboration zone" where projects are hosted and KDE and GNOME developers can discuss concerns.
http://www.kde.org The home of the K Desktop Environment. Well-organized site, with links to nearly everything relevant to KDE.
http://dot.kde.org The KDE News site, with links to online articles about KDE and its applications, along with press releases and the like.
http://www.gnome.org The GNOME home.
http://www.gnomedesktop.org "Footnotes," the GNOME News site.
http://www.novell.com/linux/ximian.html The Ximian area of Novell.com. Information about Evolution, Mono, and the Ximian Desktop.
http://xwinman.org An Internet hub for learning about and trying Window Managers for X.
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=599 Metacity.
http://sawmill.sourceforge.net Sawfish is a window manager for the X Window System. It was formerly known as Sawmill.
http://www.windowmaker.org WindowMaker is a window manager used in Linux.
http://icesoundmanager.sourceforge.net/IcePref2 IceWM is an advanced Linux configuration tool.
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html The Neal Stephenson essay, "In the Beginning Was the Command Line." See also an authorized "update" by Garrett Birkel, "The Command Line in 2004," at http://home.earthlink.net/~android606/commandline.
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash The official bash site at the GNU Project. Download the latest, and read the Introduction to Bash.
http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html Chet Ramey's bash site. Ramey is the current bash maintainer. Looks very much like the official page, but also has the bash FAQ list.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html A bash guide for beginners.
http://ldp.nllgg.nl/LDP/abs/html The Advanced bash scripting guide. "This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction." Read online, or download the PDF or the SGML source.
http://www.filibeto.org/sun/lib/development/shell/config_the_bash_shell.html Configuring the bash shell.
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Shells/Basic_Console_Commands.html Learn these commands and you can be comfortable saying you know bash "well enough."
http://www.kornshell.com/doc Assorted documentation for the commercial Korn shell, ksh.
http://www.tcsh.org The tcsh wiki. Although it does not contain a wealth of information, check out the FAQ and TipsNTricks page. You can also subscribe to the two tcsh mailing lists from here.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot Perl guru Tom Christiansen's famous 1996 essay, "Csh Programming Considered Harmful." Why it's a bad idea to script in the C Shell.
http://www.zsh.org Home of the Z Shell. Very useful.
http://www.OpenOffice.org The home of the open-source productivity suite. Extended documentation, a knowledge base, and links to the various mailing lists that keep this project running.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/ OpenOffice.org's commercial big brother, produced and marketed by Sun Microsystems. This version includes a database and a few other closed-source widgets and tools.
http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/ Aimed at the person who wants to get more out of OOo. Many valuable tips, links, and pointers to other books that cover OOo in depth.
http://www.KOffice.org The KDE Office Suite home. Downloads, news, mailing lists, and archives.
http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office The umbrella home for the GO Suite.
http://www.abisource.com The AbiWord page.
http://www.gnumeric.org The Gnumeric page.
http://www.softmaker.de/index_en.htm Softmaker Office.
http://en.hancom.com/products/hancomoffice20.html Hancom Office.
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index.html Kmymoney.
http://www.gnucash.org GnuCash.
http://www.scribus.net Home of the Scribus desktop publishing tool. Be sure to check out the detailed and very helpful tutorial at docs.scribus.net.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ The Dia diagramming tool. Useful documentation not included in the package.
http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/ The View Your Mind page. Written in VYM and exported to HTML. Nice way to see how the program works.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture sound card matrix. Check here for more information on support for your card.
http://www.linux-sound.org From music made with Linux to musician mailing lists to player and production software, the jumping-off point for sound and music under Linux.
http://www.xmms.org/ Home of the X Multimedia System (XMMS). News, downloads, plug-ins, skins, and support for this multifaceted media player.
http://www.vorbis.com Hows and whys for the Ogg Vorbis audio format.
http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ Video for Linux information page. Technical information on the V4L APIs, drivers for supported cards, and personal video recorders. Links to software for making video of all types. When typing this URL out, know that the last character is an L (as in Video4Linux), not a numeral 1. Should you type the numeral, you get a rather snarky error message.
http://www.mythtv.org The MythTV personal video recorder software. Installation instructions, examples of MythTV in action.
http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2190&p=1 A detailed and honest explanation of a successful MythTV installation on SUSE Linux.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu The MPlayer headquarters for that varied and full-featured video player.
http://xinehq.de The Xine headquarters; news and downloads for this video player.
http://www.gphoto.org/ Linux Management software for digital camera images.
http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php The gphoto list of supported cameras.
http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html Digital Camera Support for Unix, Linux, and BSD. If your camera is not on the gphoto list, this site may help you find out why and offer suggestions.
http://digikam.sourceforge.net The KDE digiKam front end for gphoto. Look here for plug-ins and new versions, which seem to come out every two months.
http://www.gimp.org The very well organized home of The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Check out the Tutorials section, with walk-throughs for all skill levels, beginner to expert.
http://gug.sunsite.dk The global GIMP User Group. Mailing lists, a large gallery of images and textures, tutorials, and articles to help make you a better GIMPer.
http://icculus.org/lgfaq The Linux Gamers' FAQ; get your questions answered.
http://www.happypenguin.org The Linux Game Tome, a catalog of Linux games of all sorts. Player ratings, news, forums, and links.
http://linuxgames.com LinuxGames, with all sorts of news related to the topic.
http://www.kde.org/kdegames The KDE Gaming area, with descriptions of all the games included with KDE.
http://www.ggzgamingzone.org Play Linux games online for free.
http://www.freeciv.org The Freeciv wiki site. All things Freeciv, with translations in seven languages.
http://www.winehq.org The Wine Project headquarters. Be sure to vote for your favorite Windows application to be ported using Wine in the Applications Database section.
http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools WineTools offers a relatively painless installation of Wine and a bunch of well-known free applications, including Internet Explorer.
http://www.codeweavers.com Codeweavers, Inc., the makers of Crossover Office.
http://frankscorner.org This site helps you get the most out of Wine. Contains FAQs and HOWTOs to get you through most problems.
http://www.vmware.com WMWare Inc., where you can get information and a free 30-day evaluation copy of this virtual machine.
http://www.win4lin.com Win4Lin, helping people run Windows 98 applications, and now Windows 2000/XP applications.
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net The DOSBox site. Check on support for your DOS game, even find downloadable copies of some ancient games.
http://dosemu.org The home of DOSEmu, the DOS emulator.
http://freedos.org The FreeDOS project. Assorted applications to use in DOSBox or dosemu.
http://os-emulation.net/basiliskII/system753_tutorial/linux A tutorial on installing and running Basilisk II on Linux.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen The Xen virtual machine monitor project home.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html Always the place to begin. The file systems HOWTO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem Wikipedia on how file systems work in various operating systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems Helpful chart on differences between file systems, with links to the Wikipedia articles on each file system.
http://www.namesys.com The Group in charge of ReiserFS.
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html The Linux ext3 FAQ list. Differences between ext2 and ext3, and troubleshooting problems.
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs The XFS for Linux site.
http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2 The Logical Volume Manager home page.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO The LVM HOWTO page. Should have information on LVM2 by now.
http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=33142 Tuning up IDE hard drives with hdparm. A useful tutorial.
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted The GNU Parted home page.
http://www.nvu.com/ The nvu (N-View) project for a Mozilla-based web-authoring tool.
http://quanta.sourceforge.net Quanta Plus project page for the KDE web-authoring tool.
http://kdewebdev.org The KDE WebDev suite site. For Quanta and its subsidiary tools.
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl Bluefish, the GTK-based web-authoring tool.
http://bfwiki.tellefsen.net The Bluefish Wiki, where the development team keeps the rest of us posted on what's happening.
http://www.screem.org A GNOME/GTK editor for HTML and XML files.
http://www.ndeepak.info/stuff/vtu/ginf "Ginf is not FrontPage," another effort to simplify web authoring.
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey The all-purpose online web-design school. Tutorials on various web technologies for all skill levels, from basic HTML to Apache to ColdFusion. Like Wired magazine, occasionally the pages lean to the illegible.
http://webdesign.about.com Down-to-earth advice about website design. Free online classes in HTML and cascading style sheets, too.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0124049 "Notes from the Metaverse," the author's technology weblog. Lots of links and news related to open-source software and SUSE Linux.
http://www.planetsuse.org Planet SUSE, a group blog of SUSE Linux developers.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/Tools The current directory of blogging tools and services. You'll find something useful here.
http://www.blosxom.com Download and learn about Blosxom, the CGI-based blogging tool.
http://www.billstclair.com/blogmax The Blogmax extension for Emacs.
http://wordpress.org WordPress blog and content management tool. Very busy and helpful support forums.
http://www.blogger.com Still the easiest and cheapest way to start blogging. Now managed by Google.
http://www.sixapart.com The company behind Movable Type and Typepad. Access either product from the company blog page.
http://www.livejournal.com LiveJournal is a place for more personal blogs and building communities of kindred bloggers.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0102385/2003/04/24.html#a329 A description of how to run the Windows blog program Radio Userland under Wine.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution The Evolution home page.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird The Mozilla Thunderbird page. Links to MozillaZine knowledge base and help forums.
http://pim.kde.org Home of the KDE Personal Information Management suite: Kontact, KMail, Korganizer, and the ancillary tools.
http://sylpheed.good-day.net Sylpheed, the other GTK-based mail client.
http://www.mutt.org The mongrel of text-based email clients.
http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview The UUDeview multiformat file attachment decoder. Works with all encoding formats (BinHex, yEnc, MIME, UUEncode). Enjoy the "Introduction to Encoding" document and get some useful history, too.
http://www.yenc.org/linux.htm Linux readers and writers for the yEnc coding format.
http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/base64_encoding.htm An excellent description of base64 encoding.
http://www.postfix.org/start.html The Postfix home page. Be sure to click the Web Sites link on the menu to find a mirror site close to you.
http://www.seaglass.com/postfix/faq.html The Postfix mailing list FAQ, maintained by Kyle Dent, author of Postfix: The Definitive Guide.
http://www.sendmail.org The Sendmail home page.
http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail The Fetchmail home page.
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html Paul Graham's original essay, "A Plan for Spam," outlines the theory of Bayesian filtering.
http://spamassassin.apache.org SpamAssassin home page. Check out the wiki pages for downloadable custom rulesets.
http://bogofilter.org Eric Raymond's Bogofilter project.
http://www.nidelven-it.no/articles/introduction_to_thunderbird_5 A good introduction to spam filtering with Mozilla Thunderbird.
http://www.iki.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.html The Procmail FAQ. In his own words, "The author wanted to call this a 'Mini-FAQ' but it keeps getting bigger. There are plans to rename it the 'Bronto-FAQ.'"
http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net The Procmail Documentation Project. See the PM-Tips page for sample rulesets/recipes and many other good ideas.
http://www.clamav.net Home of the open source Clam antivirus program.
http://groups.google.com Google Groups. Read Usenet on the Web and create groups of your own.
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/products/inn The InterNetNews Usenet server and reader.
http://slrn.sourceforge.net "s-lang read news"; the slrn newsreader.
http://knode.sourceforge.net KNode newsreader in Kontact and KDE.
http://pan.rebelbase.com The Pan newsreader for GNOME.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb, Ward Cunningham's original collaborative site.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChoosingaWiki Choosing a WikiEngine, with help from Ward Cunningham's assembled masses.
http://zwiki.org ZWiki, the Zope-based wiki engine included in SUSE Linux. Docs still in progress.
http://twiki.org Another popular Wiki engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org The Wikipedia home page, perhaps the best example of how wikis work.
http://www.list.org Home of the Mailman list manager.
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo The Majordomo list manager.
http://www.siliconexus.com/MajorCool The web interface for Majordomo.
http://www.irchelp.org The place to get help with Internet Relay Chat.
http://www.irc.org/links.html IRC clients, channels, networks, and bots. Find them here.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IRC The Linux IRC mini-HOWTO.
http://kopete.kde.org Kopete, the KDE instant messenger and IRC client.
http://www.jabber.org/user/userguide The Jabber user guide, for learning about this open source IM protocol. Jabber.org also hosts a public IM server for you to connect with.
http://gabber.sourceforge.net The GNOME Jabber client.
http://xchat.org The Xchat home page.
http://www.licq.org LICQ, the mother of all Linux instant messengers.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net This IM client started as just an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) clone, but now supports most other IM networks as well.
http://www.gnomemeeting.org GnomeMeeting videoconferencing home page.
http://www.kernel.org The Linux Kernel Archives. Where to find the latest kernel and more information.
http://www.kernel.org/mirrors Download the kernel from a server near you.
http://www.kernel-traffic.org The Kernel Traffic newsletter, a weekly summary of what's happening on the Kernel mailing list.
http://www.gnu.org GNU's not Unix. The home of many kernel-related projects. Get software and documentation here and a healthy dose of free-software philosophy.
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html The make manual. This utility is much more than a source-code build environment.
http://kniggit.net/wwol26.html The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6, a guide to the latest version of the kernel by Joseph Pranevich.
http://www.kernelnewbies.org For people who want to try their hand at kernel hacking. The Kernel Newbies host an IRC chat channel, #kernelnewbies, and a wiki from this site.
http://tldp.org/LDP/lki Linux Kernel 2.4 Internals Guide. Get into more depth about how the kernel works.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/os.html#OSKERNEL These HOWTOs explore the kernel in several ways.
http://minix1.hampshire.edu Al Woodhull's Minix site. Learn more about Linux's "parent" OS.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html The official Minix site.
http://jungla.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html Its origins are similar to those of a FAQ document, but this annotated "Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel" is more of a reference guide, with pointers to an abundance of useful kernel information.
http://kerneltrap.org "Your Ultimate Source for Kernel News."
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual The GRUB manual.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html The LILO mini-HOWTO.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO How to back up your system to support a bare-metal recovery.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html The Linux System Administration Guide. See Chapter 12 on backups.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html Undeleting files from an Ext2/3 file system.
http://amanda.sourceforge.net The Amanda home page.
http://www.backupcentral.com Storage Mountain, with much information and links on backups and other storage-related issues.
http://linuxgazette.net/104/odonovan.html An excellent and easy-to-understand article on using rsync and cron for automated backups.
http://www.k3b.org The home of K3B, the KDE CD/DVD burning tool.
http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html The GMailFS program, which allows you to convert your gigabyte of Gmail storage into a working Linux file system.
http://www.bluehaze.com.au/unix/cdbkup.html Using a shell script to back up to CD.
http://www.mondorescue.org A rescue tool that can produce bootable CDs to restore a broken system.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11504.html A screenshot-filled YaST tutorial from Novell's Cool Solutions site.
http://www.suse.de/~sh/YaST2-Package-Manager Written to explain the big changes in YaST with v8.1, there's a lot of good information here on how YaST works.
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/04/82_susewatcher.html Documentation for SUSEwatcher, including descriptions for the icons.
http://www.rpm.org Home for information on the Red Hat Package Management system. The site includes an online version of Ed Bailey's 2000 book, Maximum RPM.
http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic The Synaptic GUI for apt. Download the current source from here if you can't wait for a new package via apt.
http://packman.links2linux.org Excellent repository for packages not yet included in the official distribution. Download directly or use APT.
http://rpmseek.com Find more RPM packages here.
http://freshmeat.net A giant repository of Linux and other open-source software, organized by date received. Thus, the "freshest meat" is at the top.
http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/bios2/1.shtml The LostCircuits BIOS Guide. The site itself is a bit ad heavy, but there is excellent information on various BIOS settings.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-slack.html Joe Brockmeier explains the Slackware Linux boot process, which is not so different from SUSE Linux.
http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk The Linux Newbie Administrator Guide. Very helpful.
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grub.htm "GRUB from the Ground Up," a fine explanation of how to create a GRUB boot floppy and boot it on a disabled machine.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual The GRUB manual, in various formats.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html The LILO Mini-HOWTO.
http://tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy Linux Administration Made Easy. See Section 4.8 on booting with LILO.
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/17/1832239 A brief review of KSysGuard.
http://docs.kde.org/en/3.3/kdebase/ksysguard The KSysGuard Handbook.
http://www.gkrellm.net The home of GKrellM.
