Notes

# Notes on this book

Linux Installation and Getting Started is an installation and new-user guide to the Linux system. Linux is a free clone of the UNIX operating system developed for 80386 and 80486 machines. This book describes how to obtain and install Linux on your system, as well as how to start using it. Information on configuration of X-Windows, basic system administration, and much more is included.

This HTML version of the book was provided by Ken Edwards (`edwards@xon.cuug.ab.ca`), and was generated using `latex2html`. As such, there are several technical glitches in the book---the index isn't perfect, and anything which `latex2html` doesn't understand appears as a small inline image. If you don't want to get all of these images, tell your WWW client not to load inline images.

This book is available in various formats, such as PostScript, .dvi, LaTeX source, and plain ASCII from sunsite.unc.edu. There are also several publishing companies distributing printed and bound copies of the book; see the README file for details.

Blatant sales pitch: My newest book, Running Linux, has been published by O'Reilly and Associates. It's 600 pages full of everything you need to know to run and use Linux. More information can be found here.

If you have any questions about this book, please feel free to contact the author at `mdw@sunsite.unc.edu`.

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