Some useful links

[Cannonfodder]

Obtained from a poster in alt.os.linux.mandrake newsgroup :)

 

Reference Links:

http://www.linuxdot.org/nlm/ newbie manual

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/ command summary

http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/intern/docs/linux1.pdf most common commands

summary by Darcy O'Neil (3 pages, 33.3KB download)

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php Mandrake User Org.

http://www.tldp.org/ Linux Documentation Project

http://rute.sourceforge.net/ downloadable Linux Manual

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alex.bache/ma...ndrake-faq.html aolm FAQ

 

Software Installation:

Tar files:

http://www.linuxnovice.org/main_how.php3?V...W=VIEW&t_id=125

Also, try checkinstall http://checkinstall.izto.org/ to install tar files,

makes uninstalling easier and keeps installed files in Package Manager.

Instead of ./configure, make, make install you ./configure, make,

checkinstall make install.

RPM's:

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/brpm.html

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/brpm2.html

URPMI:

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/basics/brpm3.html

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jwrobinson/docs...owto/index.html

http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php

 

Samba (Windoze Networking/Printing):

http://www.samba.netfirms.com/ Easy setup guide

Downloadable Samba manual just search for sambapdf.zip if not at

http://funredes.org/ftp/Linux/

 

Remote Desktop Access:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ VNC, also see tightvnc in MDK

http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/ see rfb* RPM at rpmfind.net