When you are new to Linux and have hands-on experience with Windows you might wonder how the functionality of both worlds is. In next then no time you can go on-line, write and receive your Gmail, chat with friends or use the Office system. Even changing your whole desktop-appearance, not just a few parts, suddenly becomes a snap. Yet, inexorably the moment will come that you encounter a 'silly problem' that only can be solved by delving through the Linux file system. Different from C:\WINDOWS is its organization, but not so much that you can't understand things. In fact you'll understand the contents of the Linux FS much better. Most of its files are 'text'-files that become executed and can be changed with ease, which requires some caution at first. What's where is often asked. Let us take a look...

For many Linux is the Swiss Knife amongst Operating Systems. It allows to use a large number of filing systems, from journaling to exotic cryptographic. Hardly 2 Linux installations are exactly the same. To make a 'virus' for it is by virtue of its protocol the most stupid and time-wasting paste-time one can imagine. Linux can be defined as a 'protocol', defining the way how data is manip