Tutorials, guides, etc.

[damNageHack]

Why is the author not suggesting Salix/Slackware?
How to install? ... http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/36 ... -installed

[mimosa]

http://www.tuxfiles.org/

I can't really judge how reliable or up-to-date this is, but her dry style inspires confidence.

[mimosa]

NB The unixmages link has some good stuff but there is a lot more here:

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~0020621/CP/unixf ... ngmage.pdf

looks like the original site no longer has most of the content.

[mimosa]

The Wikipedia page on permissions is dense but appears fairly comprehensive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions

I'm really posting, though, to point out the links on that page to some more digestible information:

http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_9.html

This whole site (which is introductory) looks good - maybe someone has posted it to the thread already; EDIT seems rather dated, and Debian-focused



and this is very clear on a couple of points:

http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/arti ... 30417.html

(owner trumps group trumps world)

http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/arti ... 30424.html

(what directory permissions allow you to do to the files inside the directory)

[Lutin]

It could be a good idea to make a to-do list for the documentation needed in the wiki.

(Writing documentation (in french) is the only thing I can do).

[Akuna]

It could be a good idea to make a to-do list for the documentation needed in the wiki.

(Writing documentation (in french) is the only thing I can do).

Translating the wiki in French (or any other languages) would be great!
This could help => viewtopic.php?f=30&t=268

BTW, feel free to add any new page to the wiki that you think would be important. our wiki is "community-powered".

[Saburgin]

Help for german Forum Members
http://openbook.galileocomputing.de/linux/

[mimosa]

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/08/15- ... e-history/

A handy reference to some useful features of the command line history I hadn't come across.

Incidentally, he doesn't actually say that *repeating* C-r goes back to the previous occurence of the search term, as many times as you like.

[Shador]

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/08/15-examples-to-master-linux-command-line-history/

A handy reference to some useful features of the command line history I hadn't come across.

Incidentally, he doesn't actually say that *repeating* C-r goes back to the previous occurence of the search term, as many times as you like.

http://www.catonmat.net/download/bash-h ... -sheet.pdf

[mimosa]

Looks like many other good things on that site too!