Puppy-Linux-Mini-WIE-TUN für unerfahrene Windows-Überläufer

Point 5: The Renegade Programm, Point 5: What is where?

• You find 21 really self explaining icones (one icone is for the help system!) on the screen and a tool bar looking as a Windows 95 tool bar, nothing new for you!
• As in Microsoft Windows, you can access to the most parts of you new system using the Screen key "start". It is not the really usual approach of Linux for managing this problem: more common is to click on the screen with the right mouse key and you get the same effect. The way is also possible under Puppy. New very expressive icones are available after that to guide you. Experimentate: it's better as to learn. Don't forget: your system is on the CD so you have a high security don't to change it if you experimentate something (at this stage of your learning phase, it is easy to refresh the system by rebuilding it completely: under Microsoft Windows, you erase the big file PUP001 in your main Windows directory and can rebuild a completely new system totaly free from changes; analog, you can burn in the future a copy of your actual PUP001 and save very easy all values of your Puppy system at this time and, if an error appairs, you only have to erase the defect file PUP001 and copy the saved file from the CD and get in a few minutes the old situation completely intact!)

• The file system and the rules to give names for the files are completely different as in Microsoft Windows. All Linux distributions use an highly standardised file system with minor changes from distribution to distribution. And the writing convention is different from the convention under Microsoft Windows:
  • Separator: Linux never uses "\" as separator by writing file names. Always the separator what you know from the Internet: "/"
  • Capital letters: Linux distinguish very strong between capital letters and lower letters. It is very important to observe it
  • Mouse click: Linux has different system reactions depending of setup values concerning simple or double clicking. Don't worry: it is possible to adapt it.

• • The "Home" Icone on the Desktop: This is the privilegied place for your own works (texts, spreadsheets, etc). The home directory is always available on Linux systems. In Puppy, the content of "Home" will be saved after the end of each session in PUP001. But you have to be conscient of the reality, that PUP001 isn't a very big file. You can't save a big amount of music etc. To save such very big and heavy files, you have to use the second way:
  • Using a file manager: You will access to a good file manager in the division "File manager" available after clicking on the Screen key "Start". You can compare the ROX Filer file manager with the Windows-Explorer. But the presentation is completely different (I know...). But as a lot of performances of the Internet comes straight from Linux, if you are experimented in the using of browsers, you willn't have major problems using ROX: It is the same philosophy!
  • "/" , the start point of each Linux files hierarchy: You will find in each Linux file system a directory with only a slash, without name or other attributes: it is the start point of your Linux file hierarchy! From "home" with only one click, you can reach this point (in the ROX Filer file manager only one click in the commando line, left, the arrow, left, in the commando line.
  • After that, you see in all Linux distributions almost the same: different main directories having always always the same name in all Linux distributions: bin, dev, etc, lib, mnt, opt, proc, root, sbin, tmp, usr, var.
  • All this directories are important, of course, but 3 special directories are more important: etc, mnt, root and usr
  • mnt is abreviation for "mount": in Linux, all external ressources need to be mounted before using. In mnt, you will find the links for those connections. It is not possible to open a drive in Linux, if the drive is mounted: You have to mount or quit properly (unmount) to permit and use the access to such drives...