Spring Switzerland GmbH 2000 - Manual

Spring term 2000
Using Linux at the ITU data bars
Department of Information Technology, Technical University of Denmark
Michael R. Hansen, Jørgen Arendt Jensen, Morten Olsen and Hans Rischel
The IT University of Copenhagen
Niels Hallenberg, Anders Steen Rasmussen and Peter Sestoft
These notes explain how to use Linux at the ITU data bars at ITU.
ITU has many data bars located in the buildings at Glentevej 65 and Glentevej 67. At Glentevej 65,
we have a data bar in room 0.05. At Glentevej 67, we have data bars in the following rooms: 1.03,
1.30 and 2.47. All PC’s have Windows NT and Linux (RedHat 6.1) installed. This note describes how
to use Linux. Linux is different from the usual Windows system on PC’s. Linux belongs to the UNIX
family of operating systems which are widely used at universities.
Contents
1 Logging in 2
2 Executing commands via the button-bar 3
3 Windows and icons 4
4 Printing 5
5 Running Java programs 5
6 Running SML programs 5
6.1 SML system functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7 File, directories and paths 8
8 Star Office 9
9 L A TEX 9
10 Some useful UNIX commands 10
11 Desktop enviroments in the data bars 12
12 More about Linux 13
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