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1. Introduction and General Information
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1.1. What Is Linux?
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1.2. How to Get Started.
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1.3. What Software does Linux Support?
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1.4. How to Find a Particular Application.
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1.5. What Hardware Is Supported?
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1.6. Ports to Other Processors.
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1.7. Disk Space Requirements: Minimal, Server, and Workstation.
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1.8. Minimum and Maximum Memory Requirements.
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1.9. Does Linux Support Universal System Bus Devices?
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1.10. What Is Linux's Open-Source License?
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1.11. Is Linux *nix?
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2. Topics of Current Interest.
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2.1. What Is the Best Way to Respond to Anti-Linux FUD?
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2.2. What Are the Reasons to Upgrade to the Version 2.4 Kernel?
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2.3. What Resources Are There for Linux DeCSS and Other Open Source DVD Software?
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2.4. Where Is Information About Electronic Privacy Laws that Affect ISP's?
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3. Network Sources and Resources
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3.1. Where Is the Latest Kernel Version on the Internet?
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3.2. Where Is the Documentation?
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3.3. Where Is the Linux Stuff on the World Wide Web?
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3.4. What News Groups Are There for Linux?
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3.5. What Other FAQ's and Documentation Are There for Linux?
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3.6. Where Are the Linux FTP Archives?
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3.7. How To Get Linux without FTP Access.
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3.8. How To Get Information without Usenet Access.
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3.9. What Mailing Lists Are There?
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3.10. Where Are Linux Legal Issues Discussed?
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3.11. Sources of Information for Unmaintained Free Software Projects.
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3.12. Are the News Groups Archived Anywhere?
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3.13. Where To Find Information About Security Related Issues.
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3.14. Where To Find Linux System Specifications.
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4. Compatibility with Other Operating Systems
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4.1. Can Linux Use the Same Hard Drive as MS-DOS? OS/2? 386BSD? Win95?
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4.2. How To Access Files on a MS-DOS Partition or Floppy.
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4.3. Does Linux Support Compressed Ext2 File Systems?
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4.4. Can Linux Use Stacked/DBLSPC/Etc. DOS Drives?
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4.5. Can Linux Access OS/2 HPFS Partitions?
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4.6. Can Linux Access Amiga File Systems?
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4.7. Can Linux Access BSD, SysV, Etc. UFS?
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4.8. Can Linux Access SMB File Systems?
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4.9. Can Linux Access Macintosh File Systems?
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4.10. Can Linux Run Microsoft Windows Programs?
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4.11. Where Is Information about NFS Compatibility?
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4.12. Can Linux Use True Type Fonts?
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4.13. Can Linux Boot from MS-DOS?
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4.14. How Can Linux Boot from OS/2's Boot Manager?
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5. File Systems, Disks, and Drives
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5.1. How To Get Linux to Work with a Disk.
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5.2. How To Undelete Files.
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5.3. How To Make Backups.
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5.4. How To Resize a Partition (Non-Destructively).
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5.5. Is There a Defragmenter for Ext2fs?
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5.6. How To Create a File System on a Floppy.
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5.7. Does Linux Support Virtualized File Systems Like RAID?
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5.8. Does Linux Support File System Encryption?
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5.9. Linux Prints Nasty Messages about Inodes, Blocks, and the Like.
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5.10. The Swap Area Isn't Working.
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5.11. How To Add Temporary Swap Space.
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5.12. How To Remove LILO So the System Boots DOS Again?
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5.13. Why Does fdformat Require Superuser Privileges?
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5.14. The System Checks the Ext2fs Partitions Each Reboot.
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5.15. Root File System Is Read-Only.
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5.16. What Is /proc/kcore?
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5.17. The AHA1542C Doesn't Work with Linux.
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5.18. Where Is the Journalling File System on the Net?
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6. Porting, Compiling and Obtaining Programs
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6.1. How To Compile Programs.
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6.2. How To Install GNU Software.
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6.3. Where To Get Java.
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6.4. How To Port XXX to Linux.
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6.5. What Is ld.so and How To Get It?
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6.6. How To Upgrade the Libraries without Trashing the System.
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6.7. How To Use Code or a Compiler Compiled for a 486 on a 386.
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6.8. What Does ``gcc -O6'' Do?
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6.9. Where Are linux/*.h and asm/*.h?
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6.10. What To Do about Errors Trying to Compile the Kernel.
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6.11. How To Make a Shared Library.
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6.12. Programs Are Very Large.
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6.13. Does Linux Support Threads or Lightweight Processes?
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6.14. Where To Find lint for Linux.
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6.15. Where To Find Kermit for Linux.
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6.16. How To Use Linux with a Cable Modem.
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6.17. Is There an ICQ Program That Runs under Linux?
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7. Solutions to Common Miscellaneous Problems
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7.1. FTP Transfers Seem to Hang.
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7.2. Free Dumps Core.
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7.3. Netscape Crashes Frequently.
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7.4. FTP or Telnet Server Won't Allow Logins.
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7.5. How To Keep Track of Bookmarks in Netscape?
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7.6. The Computer Has the Wrong Time.
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7.7. Setuid Scripts Don't Seem to Work.
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7.8. Free Memory as Reported by free Keeps Shrinking.
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7.9. When Adding More Memory, the System Slows to a Crawl.
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7.10. Some Programs (E.g. xdm) Won't Allow Logins.
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7.11. Some Programs Allow Logins with No Password.
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7.12. The Machine Runs Very Slowly with GCC / X / ...
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7.13. System Only Allows Root Logins.
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7.14. The Screen Is All Full of Weird Characters Instead of Letters.
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7.15. I Screwed Up the System and Can't Log In to Fix It.
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7.16. I Forgot the root Password.
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7.17. There's a Huge Security Hole in rm!
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7.18. lpr and/or lpd Don't Work.
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7.19. Timestamps on Files on MS-DOS Partitions Are Set Incorrectly
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7.20. How To Get LILO to Boot the Kernel Image.
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7.21. How To Make Sure the System Boots after Re-Installing the Operating System.
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7.22. The PCMCIA Card Doesn't Work after Upgrading the Kernel.
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7.23. How To Remove (or Change) the Colors in the ls Display.
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7.24. Why Won't a Program Work in the Current Directory?
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8. How To Do This or Find Out That...
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8.1. How To Find Out If a Notebook Runs Linux.
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8.2. Installing Linux Using FTP.
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8.3. Resuming an Interrupted Download.
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8.4. Boot-Time Configuration.
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8.5. Formatting Man Pages without man or groff.
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8.6. How To Scroll Backwards in Text Mode.
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8.7. How To Get Email to Work.
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8.8. Sendmail Pauses for Up to a Minute at Each Command.
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8.9. How To Enable and Select Virtual Consoles.
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8.10. How To Set the Time Zone.
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8.11. Dial-up PPP Configuration.
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8.12. What Version of Linux and What Machine Name Is This?
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8.13. What Is a ``core'' File?
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8.14. How To Enable or Disable Core Dumps.
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8.15. How To Upgrade/Recompile a Kernel.
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8.16. Can Linux Use More than 3 Serial Ports by Sharing Interrupts?
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8.17. Configuring Emacs's Default Settings.
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8.18. How To Make a Rescue Floppy.
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8.19. How To Remap a Keyboard to UK, French, Etc.?
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8.20. How To Get NUM LOCK to Default to On.
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8.21. How To Set (Or Reset) Initial Terminal Colors.
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8.22. How To Have More Than 128Mb of Swap.
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9. Miscellaneous Information and Questions Answered
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9.1. How To Program XYZ Under Linux.
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9.2. What's All This about ELF? glibc?
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9.3. How To Determine What Packages Are Installed on a System.
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9.4. What Is a .gz File? And a .tgz? And .bz2? And... ?
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9.5. What Does VFS Stand For?
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9.6. What is a BogoMip?
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9.7. What Online/Free Periodicals Exist for Linux?
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9.8. How Many People Use Linux?
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9.9. How Many People Use Linux? (Redux.)
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9.10. What Is the Best (Distribution|SCSI Card|Editor|CD-ROM Drive|....)
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9.11. How Does One Pronounce Linux?
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10. Frequently Encountered Error Messages
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10.1. Modprobe Can't Locate Module, XXX, and Similar Messages.
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10.2. Unknown Terminal Type ``linux'' and Similar.
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10.3. INET: Warning: old style ioctl... called!
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10.4. ld: unrecognized option '-m486'
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10.5. GCC Says, ``Internal compiler error.''
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10.6. Make Says, ``Error 139.''
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10.7. Shell-Init: Permission Denied when I Log In.
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10.8. No Utmp Entry. You Must Exec ... when Logging In.
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10.9. Warning--bdflush Not Running.
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10.10. Warning: obsolete routing request made.
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10.11. EXT2-fs: warning: mounting unchecked file system.
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10.12. EXT2-fs warning: maximal count reached.
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10.13. EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached.
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10.14. df Says, ``Cannot read table of mounted file systems.''
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10.15. fdisk Says, ``Partition X has different physical/logical...''
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10.16. fdisk: Partition 1 does not start on cylinder boundary.
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10.17. fdisk Says Partition n Has an Odd Number of Sectors.
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10.18. A Mtools Utility Says It Cannot Initialize Drive XYZ.
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10.19. At the Start of Booting: Memory tight
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10.20. The System Log says, ``end_request: I/O error, ....''
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10.21. ``You don't exist. Go away.''
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10.22. ``Operation not permitted.''
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10.23. programname: error in loading shared libraries: lib xxx..so. x: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
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10.24. ``init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.''
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10.25. FTP server says: ``421 service not available, remote server has closed connection.''
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11. The X Window System
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11.1. Does Linux Support X?
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11.2. How To Get the X Window System to Work.
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11.3. Where To Find a Ready-Made XF86Config file.
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11.4. What Desktop Environments Run on Linux?
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11.5. xterm Logins Show Up Strangely in who, finger.
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12. How to Get Further Assistance
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12.1. If this Document Still Hasn't Answered Your Question....
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12.2. What to Put in a Request for Help.
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12.3. How To Email Someone about Your Problem.
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13. Acknowledgments and Administrivia
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13.1. Where To Send Comments.
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13.2. Formats in Which This FAQ Is Available.
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13.3. Authorship and Acknowledgments.
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13.4. Disclaimer and Copyright.
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