FAQs
View entire FAQ in fullFrequently Asked Questions
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- Application Software Management
- Booting the OS
- Connecting To A Network
- Directory And File Management
- Distributions
- General Information
- Online Resources
- Partitions And Filesystems
- Software Development
- Solutions to Common Problems
- System Libaries
- The Linux Kernel
- The X Window System
- Tips And Tricks
- Troubleshooting
- >Further Assistance
Application Software Management
View section in full- Can Linux Run Microsoft Windows Programs?
- Can Linux Use True Type Fonts?
- How Do I Find a Particular Application?
- How Do I Install GNU Software?
- How To Determine What Packages Are Installed on a System
- Is There an ICQ Program That Runs under Linux?
- What Software does Linux Support?
- Where Can I Find Kermit for Linux?
- Where Can I Find lint for Linux?|lint-for-linux
- Where Can I Get Java?
Booting the OS
View section in full- Can I Remove LILO So the System Boots DOS Again?
- Can Linux Boot from MS-DOS?
- How Do I Get LILO to Boot the Kernel Image?
- How Do I Make Sure the System Boots after Re-Installing the Operating System?
- How Do I Set the Boot-Time Configuration?
- How To Make a Rescue Floppy
- Why Does the System Check the Ext2fs Partitions Each Reboot?
Distributions
View section in full- How Can I Get a Distribution?
- How Can I Get Linux Without FTP Access?
- How Do I Get Started?
- How Do I Install Linux Using FTP?
- How Do I Install Linux?
- What are the Disk Space Requirements for Minimal, Server, and Workstation Use?
- What are the Minimum and Maximum Memory Requirements?
- What Is the Best Distribution, SCSI Card, Editor, CD-ROM Drive, etc?
- Where Are the Linux FTP Archives?
Online Resources
View section in full- Are the News Groups Archived Anywhere?
- How To Get Information without Usenet Access
- What Mailing Lists Are There?
- What News Groups Are There for Linux?
- What Online/Free Periodicals Exist for Linux?
- What Other FAQ's and Documentation Are There f
- Where Are Linux Legal Issues Discussed?
- Where Can I To Find Information About Security Related Issues?
- Where is Information about Unmaintained Free Software Projects?
- Where Is the Documentation?
- Where Is the Linux Stuff on the World Wide Web?
Partitions And Filesystems
View section in full- Can Linux Access Amiga File Systems?
- Can Linux Access BSD, SysV, Etc. UFS?
- Can Linux Access MacIntosh File Systems?
- Can Linux Access OS/2 HPFS Partitions?
- Can Linux Use Stacked/DBLSPC/Etc. DOS Drives?
- Can Linux Use the Same Hard Drive as MS-DOS? OS/2? 386BSD? Win95?
- Does Linux Support Compressed Ext2 File Systems?
- Does Linux Support Virtualized File Systems Like RAID?
- How Do I Access Files on a MS-DOS Partition or Floppy?
- How Do I Create a File System on a Floppy?
- How Do I Resize a Partition Non-Destructively?
- Why Isn't My Virtual Memory Swap Area Working?
Software Development
View section in full- Can I Use Code or a Compiler Compiled for a 486 on a 386?
- Configuring Emacs' Default Settings
- How Do I Compile Programs?
- How Do I Make a Shared Library?
- How Do I Port XXX to Linux?
- How To Prevent Errors when Linking Programs with Math Functions
- How To Program XYZ Under Linux
- What Do I Do About Errors Trying to Compile the Kernel?
- What Does gcc -O6 Do?
- What Is a .gz File? And a .tgz? And .bz2? And... ?
- Where Are linux/*.h and asm/*.h?
- Why Are My Programs So Large?
The Linux Kernel
View section in full- Does Linux Support Threads or Lightweight Processes?
- How Does Linux Kernel Versioning Work?
- Ports to Other Processors?
- What Hardware Is Supported?
- What is a BogoMip?
- What Platforms Does Linux Support?
- What Version of Linux and What Machine Name Is This?
- Where Is the Latest Kernel Version on the Internet?
Tips And Tricks
View section in full- How Do I Format Man Pages without man or groff?
- How To Enable and Select Virtual Consoles
- How To Enable or Disable Core Dumps
- How To Get Email to Work
- How To Get NUM LOCK to Default to On
- How To Have More Than 128Mb of Swap
- How To Remap a Keyboard to UK, French, Etc.
- How To Scroll Backwards in Text Mode
- How To Set (Or Reset) Initial Terminal Colors
- How To Set the Time Zone
- Sendmail Pauses for Up to a Minute at Each Command
- What Is a core File?
Troubleshooting
View section in full- How Do I Keep Track of Bookmarks in Netscape?
- If I Screwed Up the System and Can't Log In, How Can I Fix It?
- What are these Nasty Messages about Inodes, Blocks, and the Like?
- What if I Forget the root Password?
- What Is /proc/kcore?
- What's This Huge Security Hole in rm!?!?!
- Why Are the Timestamps on Files on MS-DOS Partitions Set Incorrectly?
- Why Do FTP Transfers Seem to Hang?
- Why Do Some Programs Allow Logins with No Password?
- Why Does fdformat Require Superuser Privileges?
- Why Does Free Dump Core?
- Why Does My System Only Allow Root Logins?
- Why Does Netscape Crash Frequently?
- Why Does the Computer Have the Wrong Time?
- Why Does the Machine Run Very Slowly with GCC / X / ...?
- Why Does the System Slow to a Crawl When Adding More Memory?
- Why Doesn't My PCMCIA Card Work after Upgrading the Kernel?
- Why Don't lpr and/or lpd Work?
- Why Don't Setuid Scripts Work?
- Why Is Free Memory as Reported by free Shrinking?
- Why is My Root File System Read-Only?
- Why Is the Screen Is All Full of Weird Characters Instead of Letters?
- Why Won't My FTP or Telnet Server Allow Logins?
- Why Won't Some Programs (e.g., xdm) Allow Logins?
