Linux

Control-Escape is a useful guide for the new user, Linux hobbyist, home user, or "tiny enterprise" (if your business is you and your letterhead, you're a tiny enterprise). We will try to help you decide whether Linux is for you, and if so, we'll try to guide you through some of the complexities that often trip up the new or non-technical user. Control-Escape's Linux Guide is made especially to introduce Linux to users of popular desktop operating systems (Windows and Mac OS).

Control-Escape will help you take control of your computer and escape the restrictions of monopoly commercial software. If you are interested in saving money, being more creative, or preserving and exercising your freedom of choice, then welcome to the world of Open Software!

What's New

Linux Help Engine

22 April 2007

We've enhanced our site search facility with the help of Google. Control-Escape's Linux Help Engine indexes only the best sites on the internet for Linux tutorials, how-to articles, and troubleshooting. Search all the best Linux help sites with the click of one button! It's at the top of every page, so give it a test drive.

Configuring Apache 2 on Debian, Ubuntu

10 December 2006

Just added: Configuring Apache 2 on Debian, Ubuntu, an overview of the peculiar Apache 2 configuration layout on Debian and Debian-derived Linux systems like Ubuntu, as well as the tools that make managing it easy.

Redesign

15 October 2006

Finally, Control-Escape has received a long-awaited overhaul of its design! The new search box powered by Google at the top of every page will help you quickly find the article you are looking for. The new layout is built on 21st century web standards and should make pages load faster and look better on a wider variety of browsers.

The Control-Escape Book Shop has been redesigned too, with a brand new, much broader selection of Linux books, thanks to our association with Amazon.com.

If you are seeking to know more about Linux, you should probably start at the Linux Guide. We will be adding some new content to the Guide over the next few weeks and updating existing articles to give you the latest in Linux know-how.

Good luck with your Linux adventure!

Control

• Choose from several desktop environments.
• Run your own web server or email server.
• Modify software to work the way you want.
• Make copies for your friends, legally.

Escape

• No exorbitant licensing fees.
• No monopoly vendor.
• No email viruses!
• No blue screen of death!

Why are you here?

I want to...

• Find out if Linux is for me.
• Learn to use Linux (better).
• Get my own copy of Linux.