Дж. Лакруа | Linux Mint. От новичка к профессионалу (2014) [PDF] [En]

Chapter 1: Meet Linux Mint 22
Why choose Linux? 23
What is a distribution? 24
Is Linux hard to learn? 26
What Mint does differently 28
Releases and support 29
Mint-specific tools 30
Interacting with the Linux Mint community 31
Activity – creating community and forum accounts 33
Meet the community 33
Summary 34
Chapter 2: Creating Boot Media and Installing Linux Mint 36
Which version to download 37
- The Linux Mint KDE edition 38
- The Linux Mint Xfce edition 39
- The Linux Mint MATE edition 39
- The Linux Mint Cinnamon edition 40
The different methods of installing Linux Mint 40
Activity – creating a bootable DVD 41
Activity – creating a bootable USB flash drive 42
Testing your live media 44
Planning your partitioning scheme 45
The installation process 49
To encrypt or not to encrypt 56
Summary 57
Chapter 3: Getting Acquainted with Cinnamon 58
Getting familiar with Cinnamon 59
Logging in to Cinnamon 60
Launching programs 61
Monitoring tasks 64
Utilizing workspaces 66
Notifications 67
Creating launchers 69
Bundled applications 70
File management with Nemo 73
Configuring the settings of Cinnamon 75
Activity – changing the default search engine in Firefox 78
Activity – changing themes 80
Summary 84
Chapter 4: Introduction to the Terminal 86
Why should we use the terminal? 87
Accessing the shell 88
Activity – executing commands 90
Navigating the filesystem 92
Managing files 98
Activity – the nano text editor 101
Reading manual pages with the man command 102
Searching for files 104
Using the watch command 105
Activity – introduction to scripting 107
Summary 109
Chapter 5: Utilizing Storage and Media 110
Accessing removable media 111
Activity – formatting flash drives 112
Mounting and unmounting volumes 115
Automatically mounting volumes at boot time 117
Activity – analyzing disk usage 120
Understanding gibibytes versus gigabytes, and mebibytes versus megabytes 122
Burning CDs and DVDs 123
Using the USB Image Writer 126
Understanding how Universally Unique Identifiers work 127
Summary 128
Chapter 6: Installing and Removing Software 130
Managing packages in Linux Mint 131
Using the Mint Software Manager 131
Activity – installing new applications 133
Removing applications 138
Using the Synaptic Package Manager 139
Configuring software sources 143
Advanced package management 147
Keeping your system up to date 148
Summary 151
Chapter 7: Enjoying Multimedia on Mint 152
Understanding issues concerning codecs 153
Playing music files 155
Activity – ripping an audio CD 157
Editing MP3 tags 160
Playing video files 162
Playing a DVD 162
Viewing photos 163
Editing photos with GIMP 164
Accessing your webcam 165
Recording your desktop 166
Summary 169
Chapter 8: Managing Users and Permissions 170
Creating new users 171
Changing passwords 175
Revoking access temporarily 177
Removing user accounts 178
Running commands or programs as other users 179
Administrative access via sudo and visudo 180
Understanding file and directory permissions 183
Modifying file and directory permissions 188
Summary 189
Chapter 9: Connecting to Networks 190
Connecting to a wired network 191
Setting up a static IP 193
Connecting to a wireless network 195
An introduction to SSH 197
How to access your system via SSH 198
Accessing FTP servers 200
Sharing files with Samba 204
Sharing files with NFS 206
Summary 208
Chapter 10: Securing Linux Mint 210
Choosing secure passwords 211
Encrypting your home folder 212
Configuring and testing the iptables firewall 214
Installing and configuring ClamAV 217
Blocking access to specific websites 220
Backing up and restoring important data 221
Creating and restoring snapshots 224
Hardening your system 228
Summary 230
Chapter 11: Advanced Administration Techniques 232
Creating command aliases 233
Making aliases persistent 234
Killing processes 236
Setting up cron jobs 240
Preparing to move to a new release 243
Exporting and importing package lists 245
Using variables and conditional statements in Bash 246
Monitoring resource usage 249
Monitoring CPU temperatures 250
Sending system reports via e-mail 251
Summary 254
Chapter 12: Troubleshooting Linux Mint 256
Performing the initial triage 257
Troubleshooting in Software Rendering Mode 258
Diagnosing boot issues 260
Recovering data 262
Perusing system logs 263
Reinstalling GRUB 265
Testing the RAM 267
Pinpointing audio issues 270
Solving problems with networking 273
Solving slow frame rates in games 274
Getting help from the community 275
Summary 276
Appendix A: Reinstalling Mint While Retaining Data 278
Considering LTS releases 279
Why an upgrade utility isn't included 279
Preparing for the migration 280
Installing Linux Mint while retaining /home 282
Importing a list of packages for reinstallation 285
Summary 287
Appendix B: Using the MATE Edition of Linux Mint 288
Introducing MATE 288
Understanding the differences between MATE and Cinnamon 289
Launching applications 293
Customizing MATE 295
- Desktop background 295
- Screensaver 296
- Panel applets 296
- Desktop themes 297
Summary 298
Appendix C: Using the KDE Edition of Linux Mint 300
Understanding the KDE desktop 301
Using Dolphin–KDE's file manager 304
Adding Plasmoids to the desktop 305
Discovering Mint KDE's default applications 307
Utilizing Activities and Virtual Desktops 309
Configuring network connections 310
Summary 312