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Manjaro Linux User Guide

Manjaro Linux User Guide

By : Atanas Georgiev Rusev
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Manjaro Linux User Guide

Manjaro Linux User Guide

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By: Atanas Georgiev Rusev

Overview of this book

For the beginner or intermediate user, this Linux book has it all. The book presents Linux through Manjaro, an Arch-based efficient Linux distribution. Atanas G. Rusev, a dedicated Manjaro enthusiast and seasoned writer with thousands of pages of technical documentation under his belt, has crafted this comprehensive guide by compiling information scattered across countless articles, manuals, and posts. The book provides an overview of the different desktop editions and detailed installation instructions and offers insights into the GUI modules and features of Manjaro’s official editions. You’ll explore the regular software, Terminal, and all basic Linux commands and cover topics such as package management, filesystems, automounts, storage, backups, and encryption. The book’s modular structure allows you to navigate to the specific information you need, whether it’s data sharing, security and networking, firewalls, VPNs, or SSH. You’ll build skills in service and user management, troubleshooting, scripting, automation, and kernel switching. By the end of the book, you’ll have mastered Linux basics, intermediate topics, and essential advanced Linux features and have gained an appreciation of what makes Linux the powerhouse driving everything from home PCs and Android devices to the servers of Google, Facebook, and Amazon, as well as all supercomputers worldwide.
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Part 1: Installation, Editions, and Help
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Part 2: Daily Usage
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Part 3: Intermediate Topics for Daily Usage
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Part 4: Advanced Topics

Linux Kernel Basics and Switching

In the previous chapter, we reviewed the basics of BASH shell scripts. We went through what a shell script is, how to execute one, what the differences are when starting it from root or user context, and how to write basic scripts. We then moved on to task automation based on calendar and timer events. We reviewed cron in detail, focusing on the latest and best implementation available on Manjaro, and looked at systemd timers as an alternative.

In this last chapter, we will end our journey by explaining the Linux kernel’s complicated functions in a simple way. We will first go through its basic features, revealing how it works, what it provides to the operating system (OS), and how we can inspect the currently available kernel modules. We will then look at loading and unloading kernel modules and how to switch the currently working kernel version on Manjaro. Our final stop will be a brief explanation of the Linux real-time (RT) kernel version...

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