1. System Administration Practice Homework 1-2 : X Window System lctseng

2. Computer Center, CS, NCTU References ❏ Some useful information: ❏ http://www.x.org/wiki/ http://www.x.org/wiki/ ❏ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x11.h tml http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x11.h tml ❏ http://www.twbsd.org/cht/book/ch11.htm http://www.twbsd.org/cht/book/ch11.htm 2

3. Computer Center, CS, NCTU Requirements ❏ Basic system ❏ Build a basic X Server and Window Manager and Wine ❏ Software Rank B ❏ Software Rank A ❏ Software Rank S ❏ Bonus ❏ Choose to install one application for each category ❏ You still can install more than one for precaution ❏ * for recommended 3

4. Computer Center, CS, NCTU Software Rank B ❏ Terminal ❏ rxvt ❏ xterm* ❏ eterm ❏ aterm ❏ FTP client ❏ filezilla* ❏ Mail client ❏ Thunderbird* ❏ Evolution ❏ Instant Messenger ❏ pidgin* ❏ PDF reader ❏ Xpdf * ❏ evince ❏ mupdf ❏ Browser ❏ Firefox* ❏ Opera ❏ Chromium 4

5. Computer Center, CS, NCTU Software Rank A ❏ Browser (with Flash support) ❏ Firefox* ❏ Opera ❏ Chromium ❏ Multimedia : Video, Audio ❏ Mplayer* ❏ VLC ❏ Xmms ❏ BBS client ❏ pcmanx* ❏ Pictures editor/viewer ❏ Gimp* ❏ Remote desktop ❏ freeNX* ❏ (32bits only) ❏ tightvnc ❏ tigervnc ❏ Tsclient ❏ Remmina ❏ vinagre 5

6. Computer Center, CS, NCTU Software Rank S ❏ Office ❏ openoffice ❏ libreoffice* ❏ Virtual Machine ❏ virtualbox-ose* ❏ aqemu ❏ P2P software ❏ transmission* ❏ deluge 6

7. Computer Center, CS, NCTU Bonus ❏ IDE Environment ❏ Code::Blocks ❏ geany ❏ Games (in Wine) ❏ Misc ❏ applications which cannot be built up easily 7

8. Computer Center, CS, NCTU Due Day ❏ Will be announced in HW1-3 ❏ Important! DO NOT use root account when demonstrating your homework! ❏ Try to use normal user with sudo when doing your homework 8

9. Computer Center, CS, NCTU Help! ❑ Newsgroup cs.course.sysadm ❑ BS2 board CS-SysAdmin ❑ CSCC ❑ ta@nasa.cs.nctu.edu.tw ❑ IRC channel #nctuNASA on freenode