= User's Guide = This is the user's guide to [wiki:FAQ HelenOS]. It starts from the very basics (like downloading and your first boot), teaches you the basics of using HelenOS (console, shell, etc.) and progresses to more advanced topics. Read this guide carefully before posting questions to the mailing list. This guide is not complete and always in need of improvements. == Basic Topics == || [UsersGuide/QuickStart Quick Start] || Quick and easy way to get HelenOS up and running in close to no time. || || [wiki:UsersGuide/RunningInQEMU Running in QEMU] || How to run HelenOS in QEMU on different architectures. || || [UsersGuide/RunningInVirtualBox Running in VirtualBox] || How to run HelenOS in !VirtualBox. || || [wiki:UsersGuide/SPARC Running on SPARC] || How to boot HelenOS on SPARC || || [wiki:UsersGuide/GUI GUI] || Moving virtual terminals around. || || [UsersGuide/Console Console] || Switching VCs. Mostly. (obsolete) || || [UsersGuide/Shell Shell] || Your best friend. The primary way to control the system. || || [UsersGuide/Editor Text Editor] || Standard issue. Insert, Delete, Copy, Paste, Save, Load and Quit :-) || || [UsersGuide/TextEditing Common Text Editing Keys] || If it can edit text, it supports these controls. || || [UsersGuide/CommandReference Command Reference] || List of commands you can run from the shell. || == Intermediate Topics == || [wiki:UsersGuide/TasksMonitoring Tasks, Monitoring] || See what is running on the system, killing tasks || || [wiki:UsersGuide/ServicesAndDevices Services and Devices] || Introduction to Services and Devices || || [wiki:UsersGuide/DisksFileSystems Disks and File Systems] || -WIP- || || [wiki:UsersGuide/Networking Networking] || Configuring and using TCP/IP networking || || [wiki:UsersGuide/Audio Audio] || Audio devices and applications || || [wiki:Installation Installing to hard disk] || Experimental || == Advanced Topics == If you never ran HelenOS before, you clearly are in the wrong chapter. || [UsersGuide/KernelConsole Kernel Console] || Kernel hacker's penultimate tool to debugging the system. || || [UsersGuide/CompilingFromSource Compiling From Source] || If you do, read this ''very'' carefully! ||