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10 Special Features of SUSE LINUX 243
10.1 Linux Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
10.1.1 Linux Standard Base (LSB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
10.1.2 File System Hierarchy Standard (FHS) . . . . . . . . . 244
10.1.3 teTeX — TeX in SUSE LINUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
10.1.4 Example Environment for FTP Server . . . . . . . . . 244
10.1.5 Example Environment for HTTP Server . . . . . . . . 245
10.2 Hints on Special Software Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
10.2.1 Package bash and /etc/profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
10.2.2 cron Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
10.2.3 Log Files: Package logrotate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
10.2.4 Man Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
10.2.5 The Command ulimit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
10.2.6 The free Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
10.2.7 The File /etc/resolv.conf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
10.2.8 Settings for GNU Emacs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
10.3 Booting with the Initial RAM Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
10.3.1 Concept of the Initial RAM Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
10.3.2 The Order of the Booting Process with initrd . . . . . 251
10.3.3 Boot Loaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
10.3.4 Using initrd in SUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
10.3.5 Possible Difficulties — Custom Kernels . . . . . . . . 255
10.3.6 Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
10.4 The SUSE Rescue System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
10.4.1 Starting the Rescue System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
10.4.2 Working with the Rescue System . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
10.5 Virtual Consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
10.6 Keyboard Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
10.7 Local Adjustments — I18N and L10N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
10.7.1 Some Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
10.7.2 Settings for Language Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
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