PrincetonUnixFAQ:About

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The Princeton Unix FAQ is an attempt to write down caveats in running alternative operating systems on the Princeton campus. It predates the founding of the Princeton Unix Users' Group.

Past maintainers of the FAQ has included:

  • Mark Woon founder
  • David Menestrina 1998-2000
  • Victor Shnayder 2000-2003
  • Jamie Faris 2003-2004
  • Willie W. Wong 2004-current

The FAQ featured articles written/edited by:

  • Bill Avery
  • Joseph Barillari
  • Ali Alphan Bayazit
  • Jacob Glass
  • Hui-Hui Hu
  • Mike Lindahl
  • Leszek Mazur
  • Anish Muttreja
  • David L. Oppenheimer
  • Marcin K. Porwit

Now you can contribute to it by simply adding to the Wiki!


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Purpose

The purpose of this FAQ is to help Linux users in Princeton to configure their system and take full advantage of the computing resources at Princeton (for example, Dormnet and cluster printers). This assumes

  • you have a Dormnet compatible machine, and
  • you already have Linux installed, or are going to do so.

We aim here to provide, on those assumptions, a guide to configure commonly used programs and utilities, and to provide some further reference for more advanced topics. Because of the myriad of configuration schemes spread out among different distributions of linux and different programs, we try to provide as general an approach a possible. Of course, there will be short-comings, so in the Wiki-spirit, please feel free to add new topics or correct old ones.

This FAQ, however, does not pretend to be a guide to installing the various Linux distributions. For that, I recommend Google (http://www.google.com) and The Linux Documentation Project (http://en.tldp.org).

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