Service-Center Informatik

Manuals and tutorials

In the following you will find some instructions for UNIX and LINUX in general and to special tools.

Information about the SCI

1. Slides for the computer introduction of the SCI
2. Slides for the Linux introduction of the SCI
3. Exercise for the Linux introduction of the SCI
4. Short information about UNIX also in pdf format


UNIX general

Here you can find some teaching texts from external sources:

1. Introduction to UNIX [PS, PDF] from the Society for Network
and Unix-Administration mbH
2. UNIX introduction [PS, PDF] from the University of Göttingen
3. UNIX course [PS, PDF] from the TH-Darmstadt
4. UNIX-Book [PS, PDF] from Ohio State University (English)


LINUX general

1. Tutorial >BR> [HTML] from SelfLinux


Ubuntu

1. Tutorial >BR> [HTML] from Ubuntuusers
2. Tutorial >BR> [HTML] a forum
3. Tutorial >BR> [HTML] one community


KDE

1. The KDE User Manual [HTML] from KDE documentation


Firefox

1. Firefox Hints [HTML] from Mozilla Support
2. Firefox Tutorial [HTML]
3. Firefox Hints [HTML] from Ubuntuusers Wiki


Thunderbird

1. Thunderbird Hinweise [HTML] von Mozilla Europe
2. Thunderbird Anleitung [HTML] von Thunderbird-Mail
3. Thunderbird Dokumentation [HTML] von Ubuntuusers-Wiki


Open/Libre-Office

1. Openoffice Tutorials [HTML] from Mozilla Europe
2. Openoffice manual [HTML] from Openoffice Wiki
3. Openoffice tips [HTML] by Andreas Burotto


Help!!!

  • Read Message of the Day!
    • file /etc/motd is automatically displayed in the text terminal
  • Built-in help from commands
    • command -h
    • command --help
  • man- / Infopages
    • man command
      e.g. man less
      (Exit with q key)
    • man -k keyword
      e.g. man -k nice
    • info Command
      e.g. info ssh