Linux Resources

CMSC 421 (Spring 2003)

The following are some linux links which you may find it helpful.

UMBC Linux User Group (LUG) installfest announcement at http://lug.umbc.edu/installfest.html

Two documents which you may find useful in the second section of the project: Kernel Korner: System Calls and Adding a system call.

GRUB information

Building a custom kernel

Linux kernel installing, configuring, and upgrading

A brief reminder about makefiles.

Information about ext2/ext3 issues can be found at the Linux ext3 FAQ

A good step by step instructions for installing Red Hat Linux 7.3 in UMBC network can be found at http://www.umbc.edu/oit/sans/core/umbc-redhat/ or Getting started with linux. AFS and Depot links may not be relevant to you but install and post install links give a very detailed instructions for successfully installing linux in your machine. Security and Networking links are relevant if you plan to connect the machine to internet.

A good website for linux beginners, which contains information regarding installation, shell commands etc can be found http://www.linux.ie/newusers/beginners-linux-guide/

Linux source code navigation can be found at http://lxr.linux.no/source

Linux kernels can be downloaded from http://www.kernel.org/. And the direction about how to compile and install kernels can be found at The Linux Kernel HOWTO.

A very good information regarding various aspects of linux can be got from http://www.tldp.org/

Link to the UMBC linux users group http://lug.umbc.edu . You can subscribe to the mailing list here and post your queries. There is also information about the tutorials which the group conducts for the beginners.

Comparing and Merging files:

A good tutorial on how to do this can be found at http://www.cslab.vt.edu/manuals/diffutils-2.8.1/diff.html .