The Schonland Linux System

Quick Start to Linux
with the

All Honours students in the Computational Physics Course, and all students in the Accelerator Laboratory, must do the items in boxes as pre-course assignments.

Starting off In Linux (local documents)
Red Hat Linux Installation Guide : recommended early on

Red Hat Linux Getting Starting Guide : recommended early on (especially chpater 11)

Red Hat Linux Reference Guide
Linux Documentation Project HOWTO's : Local version from LDP:2001/12/23 (as you need it )
Linux Customisation Primer
Linux Security Guide
Linux System Administrators Primer
The Linux Documentation Project for a complete up-to-date set of docs
Local documentation organized by package (browse your own machine (go to file:/usr/doc) )

Programming

Start Programming in C with Linux : extract from Computational Physics Course of Dr SH Connell
Practice the material from the notes above using the simple example described here. This is written for programmers who like the vi editor ...... you can actually use any editor you like.
Here is a nice C++ in 21 Days.
How to do simple I/O in C++.

EGCS: The Experimental GNU Compiler System : This is the compiler system we have installed
Fortran: The Linux Fortran Information Page
Various C/C++ links by SJFlocal and on the net One of the best C/C++ compendium out there on the World Wide Web
Glug's prorgamming link : When you are better at Linux and Programming

Some useful manuals

Introduction to Latex : Download the "Short Intro to Latex" as a dvi file. View with dvi file viewer

Linux Applications
We are now using ........ (you need to learn this).

See documentation and tutorials on this site
See documentation and tutorials on this site
Go to Inkosi:/home/psi-space/geant for the current installed versions at Schonland and the examples

Energy deposition from a coherent bremsstrahlung spectrum (200 GeV endpoint) in targets
Simulations of an E-DE detector for AMS on our tandem
Simulations of the Bragg curve detector at iThemba LABS
Simulations of the Afrodite Detector Array at iThemba LABS

Older Stuff

Paw Tutorial (last updated 10.1.2000
for the tutorial and 18.1.2000 for the manual): Local, at CERN
PAW example files : tutorial.tar.gz
GEANT Tutorial : at CERN
Its not so easy to compile the examples .... down load them here, and use our build file from here (Fror RH6.1 and asisftp 2000)

General Links
Links: from Schonlands WWW server

Last Updated 8.4.2003 Simon Connell