Al Bento Linux Pages

This is the general index for my Linux pages. You will find here local tutorials, software links, and references to specific Linux topics. This page was created in the Fall of 1999 and is in continuous development.

Local tutorials (work in progress)

The BNT Net (environment of many tutorials)
Example of RealServer and Apache running in the BNT Net.
Setting Sygate to run servers in LAN machines.
Hardware requirements: the do's and don'ts.
Installing RedHat Linux as workstation and server.
Dual-booting between Windows NT, 2000, XP and Linux
K Desktop Environment (KDE): installation and customization.
Guide to some basic application software installation: Focused on WordPerfect, KOffice and StarOffice
Guide to some basic Internet applications: Netscape, RealPlayer, Acrobat Reader, Xdir, AsWedit, Java
Installation and configuration of the Apache Web Server.
Installation of a counter software for your Web Server.
Setup telnet and ftp servers.
Installation and setup of SAMBA and TkSmb.
Installation and use of VNC.
Installation and setup of MySQL.
Troubleshooting in Red Hat
- Localhost no longer works: how to fix it.
- Network settings for Linux behind Wingate.
- Network settings for Linux behind Sygate.
Commands at the shell prompt
- Getting information.
- Mounting floppy and CD-ROM.
- Installing RPM packages in Red Hat Linux.
- Adding a directory to the PATH.
- Fix Sendmail in a LAN
- Using sudo in Linux: a mini tutorial
NOTE: tutorials will be linked above when ready.

Linux software

Red Hat main page: the main distributor of Linux together with Caldera and SUSE.
Red Hat Contributed ftp archive for updates and new applications
Freshmeat directory of Linux applications
Linus Applications directory of Linux applications.
Linuxnow Library directory of Linux applications.
K Desktop Environment (KDE)- a popular GUI for Linux
- KDE rpm packages (the basics and many others).
- How to install KDE in Red Hat 5.2 (for 6.x see my tutorial above).
- Another guide to install KDE in Red Hat 5.2 (for 6.x see my tutorial above).
Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux - same as the wordprocessing part of the WordPerfect Office in Windows. Reads and saves files that can be used both in Linux and Windows.
Star Office - a Microsoft Office clone for Linux including spreadsheet, wordprocessor, graphical presentation, e-mail, database, etc.
GNU Image Manipulation program (GIMP)- photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Part of Red Hat and many other distributions.
Xv - the basic graphical editor in UNIX and Linux. Part of Red Hat and many other distributions.
XDir a graphical ftp client, allows you to connect to more than a host at a time. For more details see my tutorial above on installing basic applications.
Netscape 4.5x - download and compile from source. RPMs are only available for 4.0.x.
Pine 4.x - a semi-graphical e-mail client supporting the IMAP protocol. It can be used behind a proxy/firewall. For a full graphical e-mail client use Netscape Mail. There is a K e-mail client (part of the KDE download) that uses POP and is not proxy/firewall compatible -- fine if you do not use IMAP and a proxy/firewall.
AsWedit an HTML editor.
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Real Player: 5.0 or G2.
Apache Web server
Muquit's Count CGI program.
G2 RealServer audio and video streaming
SAMBA - interoperability between Linux and Windows.
- TkSmb - a graphical tool to manage shares (equivalent to network neighborhood in Windows) and allow mounting shares from Windows in Linux.
MySQL - a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server available free for Linux and for fee for Windows. The clients in both cases are free.
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) - graphical remote login in Linux from Windows, and in Windows from Linux.

Linux references and FAQs

This page is maintained by Al Bento who can be reached at abento@ubalt.edu. This page was last updated on June 12, 1999. Although we will attempt to keep this information accurate, we can not guarantee the accuracy of the information provided.