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IN THIS CHAPTER
Before You Start
Red Hat Linux
passwd: Changes Your Password
Documentation
Tutorial: Using pico to Create/Edit a File
Basic Utilities
Special Characters
This chapter gets you started using Red Hat Linux. Read this chapter in front of a computer running GNU/Linux so that you can experiment as you read. If you are using a GUI (page 1469), you will need to use a terminal emulator to run many of the examples. Refer to “Graphical versus Character-Based Interface” on page 28. If you are familiar with the items in the “In This Chapter,” you may want to skip this chapter or skim through it.