2001.03_Intro to the Linuxuser Section.pdf

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Welcome to the LinuxUser

section of Linux Magazine.

The LinuxUser pages, as well as containing articles

for beginners, also serve as an invaluable source of

information about the latest Linux software.

Ever wondered about hard disk space usage and

who’s wasting the lion’s share of those precious

gigabytes? df and du are command line tools giving

you some hints. However, you don’t need to touch

them if you prefer GUI tools. Dr. Linux gives an

introduction to both of them.

Feel like playing a different game? Mindrover lets

you construct robots and train them. Then you can let

them fight it out with someone else’s Mindrover bots.

Gnomogram and Korner give you (as usual) the

latest news on GNOME and KDE, the latter gives an

in-depth introduction to KDE’s printing tool klpq . If

desktop environments aren’t exactly what you

want, check out Desktopia: Here we look at plain X

– OK, window managers are allowed. This issue pre-

sents a nice tool called xnodecor .

Crontabs, or cron tables, can be used for daily,

weekly, or otherwise repetitive, tasks. Don’t do

them manually, let your computer handle them

automatically. We’ve also got some interesting facts

on the MP3 format and available players.

Naturally we’ve not forgotten about the command

line. Read some introductory words on command lines

and have a look at the famous screen tool, which

allows you to leave a terminal session and reconnect to

it from another machine. If you want to see some

more, proceed to Programming Corner to find out

what the shell knows about string manipulation.

Enjoy the LinuxUser pages,

CONTENTS

85 BEGINNERS

This is where you should start in the

world of the free.

86 Dr. Linux

Dr. Linux prescribes the remedies to

make your system healthy and fit for

life.

90 Desktopia

How to make your screen look better.

We show you two utilities to improve

your looks.

92 Gnomogram

The latest news in the Gnome world.

Find out what’s happening to your

favourite desktop.

94 Programmers’ Corner

Following on from last month. We

continue to explain variables and

how to call them.

98 Ksplitter

News from the land of K. How to use

aRts for your sounds

100 Ktools

How to spool that data and prioritize

your jobs.

101 Take Command

Improve the functionality of your

terminal applications using a tool

called screen.

115 SOFTWARE

104 MP3 players

Want to play but don?t know which

to play with. We explain all.

108 Cron job Tables

Easy to use tools to save you time.

114 MindRover

Virtual Robot Wars.

Hans-Georg Esser

hgesser@linux-user.de

6 · 2001 LINUX MAGAZINE 85

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