Index of the newbieDoc documentation

Romain Lerallut

<rom1@users.sourceforge.net>

Revision History
Revision v0.02	1 March 2001	Revised by: rl
Added links to E-Groups doc. Getting ready for first release
Revision v0.01	23 February 2001	Revised by: rl
First draft

The goal of the NewbieDoc Project is to write documentation: Developing Documentation FOR Newbies BY Newbies. For more info, see the project's homepage

This is the index file for all the documentation of the newbiedoc project that can be found in the sourceforge cvs repository.

Developers should add entries in this index when uploading new files

Note to Netscape 4 users: When rendered as html, these documents use "stylesheets" to make them look nicer. However, Netscape 4 is rather old and does not support stylesheets as well as it should. If our doc looks too weird, disable stylesheet support ( Edit=Preferences=Advanced ) to see the default formatting.

General Documentation

Finding stuff

How can I find text in multiple files ? grep
How can I extract info from ls,ps, etc ? grep
Where I can I get hints and tips on finding more information? Debian help system

Administration

What are runlevels ? runlevels-intro
How can I start services automatically ? runlevels-intro
How can I install new software ? apt-get intro
Compiling custom kernels
Managing Processes on a Linux system.

Networking

Configuring exim, the Mail Transport Agent
Getting mail from a remote server (ISP,...) with fetchmail

Text editing

Joe: a good text editor for everyone
Pico: the world's simplest text editor(remote)
VI: a powerful console text editor
Vim: an extended clone of the VI text editor

System

Setting up new hardware

Browsing the Newbiedoc Documentation

When the newbiedoc package is installed, you can just type

newbiedoc

at the prompt. This will start your favorite browser and display this index page. A 'Newbiedoc' entry has also been added to the Debian/Help menu.

To change to another browser, edit your ~/.bashrc file and add:

export BROWSER=konqueror

Of course, if you prefer netscape, just type netscape instead of konqueror.

If you don't know how to edit this file, type

echo 'export BROWSER=konqueror' >> ~/.bashrc

at the prompt. It will simply append the line to the ~/.bashrc file.

After this, log out and log in again so that the modifications are taken into account.