At several places in the text the words
mathplanet or athlonlinux appears.
This doesn't have any special meaning.
It's just the name of my machine and most likely will be
different on your machine. Probably your command line
will also look somewhat different. That doesn't have
to bother you.
There are several points in the examples where I'm
logged in as root, where this isn't even necessary.
I know this is considered bad style, but it makes the
examples more uniform, so I sticked to it. Apart from
that a good portion of the commands mentioned only work
as root, so you WILL need a root-password
sooner or later, so if you don't have it, contact you
system administrator.