openSUSE Linux Unleashed

Chapter 5. Getting Started with openSUSE

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Logging In to openSUSE

• Working with the Linux File System

• Essential File System Commands from the /bin and /sbin Directories

• Using the /boot and /dev Directories

• Editing Configuration Files in the /etc Directory

• Where All the Good Stuff Goes: Your /home Directory

• Finding Desktop Programs in /opt

• Where Most of the Programs Go: The /usr Directory

• Variable Data: The /var Directory

• Changing User Information and the Finger Program

• Choosing and Using a Shell

• Editing Text

• Why Can’t I Edit This File? How Permissions Work

• Working as Root

• References

In the days before the X Window System made things a little more soft and cuddly, Unix was labeled the most user-unfriendly operating system known to humanity.

There was ...