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Step by step user guide for STUX GNU/Linux


  1. Start up

    1. What is STUX ?
    2. System requirements
    3. Download STUX iso file
    4. Record STUX iso file on a CD/DVD R/RW
    5. Create an alternative boot device
    6. Boot STUX from Live CD
    7. Live CD boot options

  2. First steps

    1. First time
    2. STUX Control Center
    3. Hard disk/USB/CD/DVD auto detection and mount
    4. Regional settings
    5. Manually set video driver, monitor resolution and refresh rates
    6. NVidia proprietary drivers
    7. Change desktop manager
    8. Compiz
    9. 3D desktop

  3. Storage devices, remote network shares and swap files

  4. Packages installation, upgrading and removal

  5. Install

    1. Install STUX on hard disk
      Booting:
    2. Install STUX on a USB key
      Booting:
    3. Install STUX compressed image
      Booting:

  6. Networking - the Network Panel

    1. Assign an Host Name
    2. Set up connections

      1. Dial Up modem
      2. Ethernet
      3. ADSL (pppoe modem)
      4. Wireless

    3. Specify Domain Name Servers (DNS)
    4. Specify a default route and a default gateway
    5. Apply IP Masquerading ( use STUX as a NAT gateway for your LAN )
    6. Domain name registration for dynamic IP addresses ( DynDns™ client )

  7. Network services

    1. STUX Service Manager

      Managed services:

      1. MySQL
      2. Apache Web server


      3. ProFTP FTP server


      4. Bluetooth
      5. Azureus (BitTorrent)
      6. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Server (DHCP)
      7. PXE Boot server
      8. VNC (Virtual Network Computing - Desktop sharing)
      9. NFS (file sharing)
      10. Samba (file sharing)
      11. SSH (Secure shell)
      12. Syslog (System logger)
      13. Ample (MP3 lender)
      14. Tor

  8. STUX Always On daemon

      What is Always On
      General settings
      Choose the resources to monitor
      Logging

  9. Multimedia

  10. Enhance performances

    1. Set up Virtual Memory (Swap)
    2. Activate DMA on IDE devices

  11. Save persistent configuration of Live CD environment

    1. Save configuration persistently on IDE or USB devices
    2. Save configuration persistently on floppy disk

  12. Emulators

    1. X86 PC emulation (qemu)
    2. Windows™ emulation (wine)

  13. STUX Live CD iso file remastering

      Easy STUX remastering
      LISO - Linux ISO builder

  14. Users and passwords

    1. STUX Live CD default users
    2. STUX Live CD unprivileged users

  15. Appendix

    1. Problem with ACPI: video is dark, brightness is low
    2. Compile new kernel modules
    3. A STUX network example
    4. Web applications
    5. Create boot floppy to boot STUX from network (PXE)
    6. CD/DVD burning
    7. Compile modules in STUX
    8. List of installed packages
    9. STUX mailing list
    10. Screenshots & reviews
    11. Forums
    12. Intel QX-3 Microscope
    13. iConcepts USB KeyPad
    14. Contact

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