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
      • Keyboard layout
      • Date and time
      • Language and Style
   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:
      • Boot PC from hard disk
      • Create a bootable floppy disk
      
      
   2. Install STUX on a USB key
      Booting:
      • Boot PC from USB key
      • Create a bootable CD R/RW disk
      
      
   3. Install STUX compressed image
      Booting:
      • Create a bootable CD R/RW disk
      • Make a bootable USB key
   
   
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
         
         
         • Secure HTTP with S.S.L.
         • Customize Apache web server
         • Apache and PHP
         
         
      3. ProFTP FTP server
         
         
         • Anonymous FTP
         • FTP virtual users
         
         
      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)
       • Create swap space using a disk partition
       • Create swap space in a file
    2. Activate DMA on IDE devices
    
    
11. Save persistent configuration of Live CD environment
    
    
    1. Save configuration persistently on IDE or USB devices
       • Remove saved configuration
    2. Save configuration persistently on floppy disk
    
    
12. Emulators
    
    
    1. X86 PC emulation (qemu)
       
       
       • Emulate an iso file
       • Qemu interface
         
       
       
    2. Windows™ emulation (wine)
       
       
       • Start a Windows™ executable file
       • Setup 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
       
       
       • Webmin - System administration
       • phpMyAdmin - MySQL management
       • phpBB - Web Forums
       
       
    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