From Taclug

Table of contents

1 Meta 2 New Users 2.1 The Linux Kernel 2.2 Distributions 2.3 Desktop Concepts 3 System Administration 3.1 User Management & Security Administration 3.2 Disks 3.3 Mail 3.4 Hardware 4 Applications 4.1 Programming 4.2 Networking 4.3 Application Specific

Meta

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The following is a list of current(links) and proposed documentation ideas.

New Users

• Why Use Linux

The Linux Kernel

• Compiling a Kernel
• Kernel Tweaking
• Common Errors

Distributions

• Debian / Debian Notes
• Fedora / Fedora Notes
• Gentoo / Gentoo Notes
• LNX-BBC / LNX-BBC Notes
• RedHat / Red Hat Notes
• SUSE / SUSE Notes
• Ubuntu / Ubuntoo Notes <- Ubuntoo?!?! Who wrote this?
• HOWTO: Install From:
  • APT
  • RPM's
  • Source Code
    • Using Make

Desktop Concepts

• GUI (Grapical User Interface)
  • Gnome / KDE
  • FluxBox/OpenBox/BlackBox - Lightweight Window Managers
  • The Anti-Desktops - Ratpoison, Ion3, and wmII
• TUI (Textual User Interface)
  • Using the Command Prompt
    • Bash scripting
    • Perl scripting

System Administration

User Management & Security Administration

• Passwords and Encryption
• Drive Space Quotas

Disks

• Backups
  • SVNHomeDir - Storing and backing up your home directory in Subversion
• RAID
• Performance Tips & Tricks

Mail

• Sendmail
• Postfix
• QMail
• SpamAssassin

Hardware

• Hardware Clock
  • Setting Time with NIST
• Printing
  • CUPS
  • LPR
• Network Interface Cards
• Sound Cards
  • Alsa
• Video Cards
  • NForce2

Applications

• Cool things you can do with your Linux Box
  • Linux Toys
  • MythTV
  • Make DVD's
  • Virtual CD Jukebox - Chuck Wolber
    • Scott's Super Hip Rip Script - Scott Hunter
• Other Resources For Applications:
  • FreshMeat
  • SourceForge
• Alsa
• Apache
• Cron
• Gnome
• LDAP
  • Introduction to OpenLDAP - Ken Hughes - 9/10/2002
• KDE
• SAMBA
  • Starting with SAMBA (unknown - unknown)
• VNC
  • Virtual Network Computing - Rick Brice - 3/15/2003
• Webmin

Programming

• Perl One-Liners
• Regular Expressions
• Java
  • Introduction to Java - Chuck Wolber - 6/15/2002
• PHP
  • Classes
    • Member Authentication
    • Cool Database Wrapper (http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/MySQL/PHP-and-Databases-for-the-Lazy-Sod/)
    • Adapting Justin Vincents EZ_SQL Database wrapper for PostgreSQL

Networking

• Firewalls
• Port Fowarding
• Traffic Shaping

Application Specific

• Bash Tips
• SSH Keys
• GPG / OpenGPG