Μεταφράστηκε πρόσφατα στα Ελληνικά ένας αρκετά ενδιαφέρον οδηγός για τα πρώτα βήματα στη γραμμή εντολών του UNIX. Αποτελείται από οκτώ μαθήματα, περιέχει παραδείγματα και ασκήσεις και καλύπτει θέματα όπως:

• Εισαγωγή στο Λειτουργικό Σύστημα
• Κατάλογοι, Αρχεία, Διαδρομές
• Αντιγραφή, Μεταφορά, Διαγραφή Αρχείων και Καταλόγων
• Ανακατεύθυνση (redirection) και Σωληνώσεις (pipes)
• Χαρακτήρες Μπαλαντέρ και man pages
• Δικαιώματα Πρόσβασης, Διεργασίες και Παρασκήνιο
• Μεταγλώττιση Λογισμικού
• Μεταβλητές Περιβάλλοντος κ.α.

The purpose of this document is to provide the reader with a fast and simple introduction to using the Linux command shell and some of its basic utilities. It is assumed that the reader has zero or very limited exposure to the Linux command prompt. This document is designed to accompany an instructor-led tutorial on this subject, and therefore some details have been left out. Explanations, practical examples, and references to DOS commands are made, where appropriate.

Ramesh Natarajan is giving out free copies of his ebook, Linux 101 Hacks. Though it targets a more experienced audience, it looks like a handy reference for those common command line tasks that arise every so often — but not often enough that you completely recall how to do them. Linux 101 Hacks can best be described as a study guide for beginning systems administrators (“Linux 101”). It focuses entirely on terminal use — from using the command line to manage system processes, search and sort files, and make remote connections to using common text-based utilities (such as fdisk)…

Στον Ελληνικό χώρο του βιβλίου υπάρχουν ελάχιστες εκδόσεις για τον Mac και είναι βέβαια παλαιές και δεν ενημερώνονται. Γι’αυτό παρουσιάζεται εδώ μια προσπάθεια να καλυφθεί εν μέρει αυτό το κενό προσφέροντας κατ’αρχήν εισαγωγικές και απλές αλλά ενημερωμένες οδηγίες που θα βοηθήσουν τους νέους χρήστες στο χώρο των Mac να κατατοπιστούν.

To Εγχειρίδιο (Handbook) του FreeBSD είναι ίσως το πιο σημαντικό κομμάτι της έντυπης τεκμηρίωσης. Με 31 κεφάλαια και 4 παραρτήματα είναι η πιο πλήρης αναφορά στο λειτουργικό σύστημα, την εγκατάσταση και τη
ρύθμιση του. Περιγράφει επίσης ρυθμίσεις και επεξηγήσεις για πλήθος εφαρμογών όπως το X Window System, τα γραφικά περιβάλλοντα, υπηρεσίες και εξυπηρετητές δικτύου και πολλά άλλα.

Το Εγχειρίδιο του FreeBSD μεταφράζεται επίσης σε πολλές γλώσσες, μεταξύ των οποίων και στα Ελληνικά από την Ελληνική Ομάδα Τεκμηρίωσης. Τη δεδομένη στιγμή έχει μεταφραστεί πάνω από το 70% του Αγγλικού κειμένου.

Over the past few years, Linux has made its way into the data centers of many corporations all over the globe. The Linux operating system has become accepted by both the scientific and enterprise user population. Today, Linux is by far the most versatile operating system. You can find Linux on embedded devices such as firewalls and cell phones and mainframes. Naturally, performance of the Linux operating system has become a hot topic for both scientific and enterprise users. However, calculating a global weather forecast and hosting a database impose different requirements on the operating system. Linux has to accommodate all possible usage scenarios with the most optimal performance. The consequence of this challenge is that most Linux distributions contain general tuning parameters to accommodate all users.

IBM® has embraced Linux, and it is recognized as an operating system suitable for enterprise-level applications running on IBM systems. Most enterprise applications are now available on Linux, including file and print servers, database servers, Web servers, and collaboration and mail servers.

With use of Linux in an enterprise-class server comes the need to monitor performance and, when necessary, tune the server to remove bottlenecks that affect users. This IBM Redpaper describes the methods you can use to tune Linux, tools that you can use to monitor and analyze server performance, and key tuning parameters for specific server applications. The purpose of this redpaper is to understand, analyze, and tune the Linux operating system to yield superior performance for any type of application you plan to run on these systems.

The tuning parameters, benchmark results, and monitoring tools used in our test environment were executed on Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux kernel 2.6 systems running on IBM System x servers and IBM System z servers. However, the information in this redpaper should be helpful for all Linux hardware platforms.

Table of contents
Chapter 1, Understanding the Linux operating system
Chapter 2. Monitoring and benchmark tools
Chapter 3. Analyzing performance bottlenecks
Chapter 4. Tuning the operating system

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter. For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author’s experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. We hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

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