Starting with SUSE

Whether you use SUSE Linux every day or just tweak it once in a while, a book that presents effi- cient ways to use, check, fix, secure, and enhance your system can be an invaluable resource.

SUSE Linux Toolbox is that resource.

SUSE Linux Toolbox is aimed primarily at SUSE Linux power users and systems administrators. To give you what you need, we tell you how to quickly locate and get software, monitor the health and security of your systems, and access network resources. In short, we cut to the most efficient ways of using SUSE.

IN THIS CHAPTER Find SUSE resources Learn quick and

powerful commands

Have a handy refer- ence to many useful utilities

Work as Linux gurus do

Our goal with SUSE Linux Toolbox is to pack a lot of useful information for using SUSE Linux into a small package that you can carry around with you. To that end, we describe:

❑    Commands — Tons of command line examples to use SUSE in helpful and clever ways.

❑    GUI tools — Quick pointers to graphical administration tools to configure your system.

❑    Software repositories — Short procedures to find and download thousands of applications.

❑    Online resources — Listings of the best locations to find SUSE

forums, mailing lists, IRC channels, and other online resources.

❑    Local documentation — Tools for gathering more information from man pages, doc directories, help commands and other resources on your SUSE system.

Because you’re not a beginner with Linux, you won’t see a lot of screen- shots of windows, icons, and menus. What you will see, however, is the quickest path to getting the information you need to use your SUSE Linux system to its fullest extent.