Linux
Table of Contents- Overview
- Installation
- Bootup
- Clusters
- Applications
- Codecs
- Hardware
- Distributions
- Date and Time
- Virtualization
- Window Managers
- Emulation
- Software Respositories
- Administration
- Software Development
- Command line
- Kernel
- Schedulers
- Threading
- UNIX Processes
- Migration
- Diagnostics
- Dual Boot
- Desktops
- Device Drivers
- Extending
- Filesystems
- Video
- Audio
- Networking
- Scaling
- Memory
- Monitoring
- Performance
- Disaster Recovery
- Repairing
- Backups
- PXE Servers
- mp3 and wifi
- Printing
- Partitions
- Consoles
- Building Special Systems
- Security
- Windows Software Equivalents, replacements, or Analogs
- Tools
- Standards
- Integrating with Other Systems
- Notable Implementations
- FAQs
- Fedora Core 5 Tips and Tricks
- Fedora Core 6 Tips and Tricks
- CentOS 5 Tips and Tricks
- References
- Errors
- Fun Stuff
- Books
Overview
Installation
Bootup
Clusters
Applications
Codecs
Hardware
- Linux on the Dell Latitude D800
- Yahoo Group - linux-latitude-d800 · Linux on Latitude D800
- Linux on Dell Latitude D800 - Penquin Breeder
- Google search
- Dell D800
- The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Linux Box
- How to Bypass BIOS Password
- Hardware diagnostics with open source tools
Distributions
- DistroWatch
- How to Run Linux on a USB Drive
- Install Ubuntu from Windows in 3 Steps without Using a CD - With the help of Wubi
OpenSolaris
Redhat
Ubuntu
- Launchpad - Canonical
- Database driven searchable community and support issues turned into question and answer form
- Updating made easy with EasyUbuntu
- How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!
- Systems Engineering 101 - Ubuntu Essesntial Post Installs
- Installing Popular Applications On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Automatix2
- How to Set up Network Bonding in Ubuntu 6.10
- Changing Screen Resolution for Ubuntu 7.04
- How to Secure Ubuntu With AppArmor
- Envy + ATI driver (8.42.3) + Desktop Effects = Success
- Creating Your Own Custom Ubuntu 7.10
- HOWTO: Set up VNC server with resumable sessions
- HOWTO: Set up VNC server with resumable sessions - KUBUNTU VERSION
- Setting-Up a VNC Server with Session Resume Support - How to get a VNC with resume support through XDMCP in Ubuntu
- How do I update Ubuntu Linux softwares?
- Make Your Ubuntu Desktop Rotate As a Cylinder/Sphere
Clonezilla
- Clonezilla
- You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!
- Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla SE was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!
Live CD's
Comparisons
- Comparison of Linux distributions
- Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On A Linux Desktop
Date and Time
Virtualization
- Using XenExpress To Virtualize Your Server
- Migrate to a virtual Linux environment with Clonezilla
- Learn how to use the open source Clonezilla Live cloning software to convert your physical server to a virtual one. Specifically, see how to perform a physical-to-virtual system migration using an image-based method.
Window Managers
Emulation
Software Respositories
Administration
- System Administrators Toolkit: Process administration tricks
- Enabling and disabling services during start up in GNU/Linux
- Move or migrate user accounts from old Linux server to a new Linux server
Software Development
- Introducing the LSB Developer Network!
- Advanced Linux Programming
- Linux assemblers: A comparison of GAS and NASM A side-by-side look at GNU Assembler (GAS) and Netwide Assembler (NASM)
Command line
- Speaking UNIX, Part 7: Command-line locution
- Title: 10 Linux commands you've never used
- Linux tip: Controlling the duration of scheduled jobs
- The art of using manuals
- Running a binary from one machine on another
Kernel
- Kernel Rebuild Guide
- Anatomy of the Linux kernel - History and architectural decomposition
- The Interactive Linux Kernel Map
Schedulers
Threading
UNIX Processes
Migration
Diagnostics
Dual Boot
- Automate OS switching on a dual-boot Linux system
- Nixie's Linux Haxor Quickie: Getting Started With Grub - shows how to dual boot if windows is installed after linux. Overcomes Windows ignoring any other OS install.
Desktops
- KDE
- How To: Enable Compiz effects on Fedora Core 6 with an nVidia Card
- The Perfect Desktop - Part 1: Fedora Core 6
- IBM open collaboration client solution
Device Drivers
- Soup To Nuts - Repository of Open Source Articles and Example Code
- Getting Comcast Email on Home Linux Box README_COMCAST_EMAIL.txt
- When testing email using 'mail' under root account ensure root is in the genericstable, otherwise, to test, use an account that is in the genericstable. Strangely, 'sendmail' does not have this problem.
- If the account sending the email is NOT in the generics table, smtp.comcast.net denies sending mail - blabbing abount senders domain being invalid.
- Setup mail server (used by local programs for outgoing mail)
- Quick HOWTO : Ch21 : Configuring Linux Mail Servers
Extending
Filesystems
Creating Partitions Larger than 2TB
Primers
- Why so many filesystems for Linux? What's the difference?
- File System Primer from Novell Wiki
- A Beginner's Guide To LVM
- Managing Disk Space with LVM
- Speaking UNIX, Part 11: Ramble around the UNIX file system - Discover where UNIX stores important files
Auditing
Namepsaces
File permissions
Securely Erasing
Encryption
- Secured systems with Fedora Core 3/4/5 Linux
- Fast File Encryption for Windows?
- Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES
- Encrypting Disks
- File Systems
- Loopback Encrypted Filesystem HOWTO
- GoogleSearch - Linux Encrypted Filesystem
- truecrypt
- TrueCrypt, cross-platform OTFE
- TrueCrypt compile instructions at www.fedoraforum.org
- How to: simple security with Easy Crypt
ZFS
The proc filesystem
CD, CDRW, DVD, DVDRW, and UDF related
- Packet Writing on CDRW and DVDRW media
- Burning CDs on Linux
- CLI Magic: Securely deleting files with shred
- Develop your own filesystem with FUSE
- Blu-ray Disc/DVD+RW/+R/-R[W] for Linux
- RPM resource udftools
- UDFtools-1.0.0b2
- udftools - Tools for UDF filesystems and DVD/CD-R(W) drives
- cdrecord
- Linux UDF at SourceForge
- HOWTO Packet Writing on CD-RW Media
- HOWTO Packet Writing on CD-RW
Network FileSystem (NFS)
CIFS
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
NTFS
Removable Devices
RAID
Video
Audio
- amarok
- Quod Libet
- Banshee
- How to add MP3 support to your Linux Distribution?
- The Grumpy Editor's guide to audio stream grabbers
- CREATING A 5.1 SURROUND SOUND DVD AUDIO TRACK USING THE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM
- Professional audio with Fedora Core 6
- How To Convert Songs From An Audio CD Into MP3/Ogg Files With K3b
- Loop-based Music Composition With Linux, Pt. 1
- Surround sound fixing in Ubuntu
Networking
- Network Monitoring with Ethereal
- Introducing TCP Wrappers
- Better networking with SCTP
- Setting up Bridging in Fedora Core
- Create a secure Linux-based wireless access point
- Change your Network card MAC ( Media Access Control) address
- traceroute - a very useful troubleshooting tool which reveals the bottlenecks on the Internet.
- How To Set Up Linux As A Dial-In Server
- 9 Tips to diagnose remote GNU/Linux server network connectivity issues
- Finding out a bad or simply overloaded network link with Linux/UNIX oses
- Tracking TCP Connections With tcptrack
- Basically, tcptrack is a sniffer which will show the information about TCP connections on a specific interface. tcptrack will watch all the connections that occur and show the information in a nice interface. Although it's on a text user interface but it's simple and easy to understand. tcptrack has been packaged on several popular Linux distributions. The latest version of tcptrack is 1.2.0 released on December 20, 2006. You can download the source code from the tcptrack website.
- Anatomy of the Linux networking stack - From sockets to device drivers
- One of the greatest features of the Linux® operating system is its networking stack. It was initially a derivative of the BSD stack and is well organized with a clean set of interfaces. Its interfaces range from the protocol agnostics, such as the common sockets layer interface or the device layer, to the specific interfaces of the individual networking protocols. This article explores the structure of the Linux networking stack from the perspective of its layers and also examines some of its major structures.
- Few Useful Netcat Tricks
- netcat tutorial: Copy hard disk or partition image
- Redirecting traffic to another machine with Linux's iptables
- netstat to find ports which are in use on linux server
Scaling
Memory
- FAQ Linux Memory Management
- Linux: Tuning Swappiness
- SoC drawer: Detecting and correcting I/O and memory errors Basic theory and practice
- Reduce your Linux memory footprint - A few tweaks can boost performance
- When Linux Runs Out of Memory
- What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, Part 1
Monitoring
- Using Top More Efficiently
- GroundWork Monitor is the most scalable open source IT monitoring solution for companies with heterogeneous operating systems, application and hardware environments who want to reduce ongoing monitoring costs, consolidate views and reports and improve staff productivity.
Performance
Disaster Recovery
Repairing
- Fixing Linux with Knoppix (Good)
- Repairing ReiserFS file system with reiserfsck
- Repairing ReiserFS file system with reiserfsck
- RAID Recovery: The Data Knight Kroll Ontrack To The Rescue!
Backups
- Amanda, Rsync, Dar, Kdar high level presentation
- Best Server Storage Setup?
- Mozy - free 2GB unlimited online backups
- Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With Ghost4Linux
- Disk ARchive (Backup and Restore) using dar and kdar(dar Frontend)
- Building KDar for Fedora Core 6 (FC6)
- Backup and Restore Linux Partitions Using Partimage
PXE Servers
mp3 and wifi
Printing
Partitions
Consoles
- Execute commands simultaneously on multiple servers
- Using stty to Your Advantage
- Speaking UNIX: Command the power of the command line
- MultiTail
- Linux tip: Bash test and comparison functions
Building Special Systems
Security
- Industrial-strength Linux lockdown, Part 1: Removing the shell
- Industrial-strength Linux lockdown, Part 2: Executing only signed binaries - Enforce execution only of trusted code on Linux
- How to Crack a Windows Password With a Live CD
- Tips to Secure Linux Workstation
- Sudo vs. Root: The Real Story
- How to restore a hacked Linux server
- Using ipchains
- ENGARDE SECURE LINUX
- Samba Security and Troubleshooting
SELinux
- SELinux from scratch
- An easy way to deploy SELinux?
- Tips for Taming SELinux
- Tips for Taming SE Linux, Part Two
Verifying Integrity
Scanning for Rootkits
Windows Software Equivalents, replacements, or Analogs
- The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux
- A Linux Enhanced port of Winpopup
- LinPopUp - A Linux Enhanced port of Winpopup
- Popup 4 Linux
Tools
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| htop | an interactive process viewer for Linux |
| GPass | password manager for GNOME2 desktop |
| Filelight | allows you to understand exactly where your diskspace is being used by graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings |
| Nano | GNU nano is designed to be a free replacement for the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email suite from The University of Washington. It aims to "emulate Pico as closely as possible and perhaps include extra functionality" |
| EastTag | EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack and Monkey's Audio files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or Windows |
| Baobab | is a C/gtk+ application to analyse directory trees in any Gnome environment |
| Fanout | allows you to run non-interactive commands on remote machines simultaneously, collecting the output in an organized fashion |
| Fanterm | allows you to run interactive text mode commands on multiple machines at the same time |
| ssh-keyinstall | ssh-keyinstall is a script that helps an ssh user set up the keys at both ends of an ssh connection |
| lsof | lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that's just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application. |
Standards
Integrating with Other Systems
Windows
- Configuring Linux Workstations for a Microsoft Windows Environment and Network
- Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On A Linux Desktop
UNIX
Notable Implementations
FAQs
- Red Hat Knowledgebase is a library of tips, troubleshooting advice, and current information updated daily by Red Hat technicians.
- http://www.fedorafaq.org/
- Articles: How To Program a Bootstrap Loader
- 10 Things a new Linux user needs to unlearn
- Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
- Save time with text editing one-liners
Fedora Core 5 Tips and Tricks
- Fedora Core 5 Tips and Tricks (v0.4)
- Fixing Fedora Core 5 (FC5) Fonts
- Personal Fedora Core 5 Installation Guide
- Nicer fonts for Fedora Core 4 and 5
Fedora Core 6 Tips and Tricks
CentOS 5 Tips and Tricks
References
- Linux at IBM
- Secure-Programs-HOWTO.pdf
- A Quick Start for Lsof
- Understanding memory usage on Linux
- Linux Help for Professionals Students and Hobbyists
Errors
- Confirmed good fix for nvidia and fc3
- 10 common mistakes to avoid when you?re installing Linux software
Fun Stuff
- Set up an MP3/ogg Alarm Clock using Linux
- Whistle while you work to run commands on your computer
- Playing Music in Linux
- Make incoming e-mail play custom tunes
Books
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