7.6.
Summary
When everything has its place, that means already half the work
is done.
While keeping order is important, it is equally important to
feel at home in your environment, whether text or graphical. The
text environment is controlled through the shell setup files. The
graphical environment is primarily dependent on the X server
configuration, on which a number of other applications are built,
such as window and desktop managers and graphical applications,
each with their own config files. You should read the system and
program specific documentation to find out about how to configure
them.
Regional settings such as keyboard setup, installing appropriate
fonts and language support are best done at installation time.
Software is managed either automatically or manually using a
package system.
The following commands were introduced in this chapter:
Table 7-2. New commands in chapter 7: Making yourself at
home
| Command |
Meaning |
| aptitude |
Manage packages Debian-style. |
| automount |
automatically include newly
inserted file systems. |
| dpkg |
Debian package manager. |
| dselect |
Manage packages Debian-style. |
| loadkeys |
Load keyboard configuration. |
| lsof |
Identify processes. |
| mount |
Include a new file system into the
existing file system tree. |
| ntpdate |
Set the system time and date using
a time server. |
| quota |
Display information about allowed
disk space usage. |
| recode |
Convert files to another character
set. |
| rpm |
Manage RPM packages. |
| setfont |
Choose a font. |
| timezone |
Set the timezone. |
| tzconfig |
Set the timezone. |
| ulimit |
Set or display resource
limits. |
| up2date |
Manage RPM packages. |
| urpmi |
Manage RPM packages. |
| yum |
Manage RPM packages. |
