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Title: Installation and use of Linux as a client and server operating system: a tutorial


1
Installation and use of Linux as a client and
server operating system a tutorial
AMCIS 99
Al Bento
2
Introduction
  • What is Linux a free PC (an others) UNIX clone
  • Visual tour of Linux with KDE
  • KDE desktop environment
  • an example
  • control center
  • applications
  • Freeware client applicationsWordPerfect, Star
    Office, Netscape, WXftp, File Manager, games,
    etc.

3
Hardware requirements
  • Typical PC configurations client and server
    machines
  • The dos and donts of hardware selection
  • On-line resources
  • hardware compatibility and
  • installation under Linux.
  • Hardware with Linux installed
  • Dell, VA Research, etc.

4
Software (Linux) installation
  • Distributions RedHat, Caldera and Suse
  • Client installation using the RedHat distribution
  • before you begin
  • the client class installation
  • after the installation
  • Server installation
  • using the RedHat server class
  • building up from the client class

5
Client software installation
  • Productivity
  • Office applications WordPerfect, Star Office
  • Internet Netscape, WXftp, telnet, chat, and
    network tools
  • Graphical Xv, GIMP, Ghostscript, Tetex-LateX,
    etc
  • Programming BASIC, Fortran, C, C, perl,
    python, TCL, tk

6
Desktop (window managers) software installation
  • The many GUI options AfterStep, GNOME and KDE
  • The KDE desktop environment
  • Obtaining and installing KDE
  • Documentation On-line and printed
  • System requirementscpu, memory, and graphics
    card
  • how about the command line interface?

7
Server software installation
  • What comes with most distributions telnet, ftp,
    mail, web, and DB servers
  • Additional free servers DB/SQL, Audio/Video
    Streaming, etc.
  • Server setup example Apache Web server
  • Other commercial servers Oracle, Informix,
    DB2, SAP R/3, HP Firehunter, etc

8
Windows and Linux interoperability
  • SAMBA protocol
  • allows a machine running UNIX or Linux to provide
    services using Microsoft networking protocols
  • the Linux machine is shown as a member (or
    server) in a Windows network, including in the
    Network Neighborhood tool
  • files and printers can be shared among both types
    of machines
  • seamless integration between Windows and Linux
  • Installation and Setup
  • TkSmb graphical interface
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