ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. System and network administration overview -- ch. 3. Linux commands -- ch. 4. Boot methods -- ch. 5. Red Hat and Debian package managers -- ch. 6. The Linux shells : an overview -- ch. 7. Bash : the Bourne-again shell -- ch. 8. Csh and tcsh -- ch. 9. Pattern matching -- ch. 10. The Emacs editor -- ch. 11. The vi editor -- ch. 12. The sed editor -- ch. 13. The gawk scripting language -- ch. 14. CVX and RCS -- ch. 15. GNOME -- ch. 16. KDE -- ch. 17. An alternative window mangager : fvwm2