Part 3: Intermediate Topics for Daily Usage
In this part, we will take a more severe look at Manjaro’s and Linux’s design from several points of view. The hundreds of thousands of free software applications for Linux frequently depend on each other to achieve modularity and share existing resources. Chapter 8 thus starts with a dependencies explanation, providing a tool to investigate them. We then move on to package managers, the primary tool for managing all installed SW modules and their dependencies. The next stop is Environment Variables, often used for application behavior control, followed by a brief note on open source licenses.
As everything on Linux is a file, Chapter 9 continues with an extensive primer on filesystem basics, structure, and types. It also explains the Windows NTFS usage and external storage automount, an essential feature for any modern OS. Chapter 10 extends the topic with storage management, describing its shrinking, extension, and mounting...
