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Contents 1 Useful Links 2 Security Topics 3 Server-Related Topics 4 Mail-Related Topics 5 Networking 6 Using the Command Line 7 Installation and System Configuration 8 Filesystems 9 Graphical Environment 10 The Linux Kernel

[edit] Useful Links

• http://www.tldp.org/: The Linux Documentation Project.
• Boot Disks
  • http://lde.sourceforge.net/ - The Linux Disk Editor
  • http://www.geocities.com/potato.geo/bootlinuxcd.html - making bootable Linux CDs
  • http://bblcd.berlios.de/ - BBLCD Toolkit
  • http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/ - Timo's Rescue Cd Set - Ver. 0.9
  • http://www.toms.net/rb/ - bootable floppy, tomsrtbt
  • http://trinux.sourceforge.net/ - Trinux, a Linux security toolkit
• http://www.zebulon.org.uk/ICML0.HTML Installing software on Mandriva Linux 9.2
• http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configuration92.html Configuration of Mandriva Linux 9.2
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ The new home of Rootkit Hunter (a recent rpm is usually in contrib, but this site has the latest versions as a tarball).
• Mail Server Systems
  • http://wiki.cyprix.com.au/wiki/CyprixMailHowto - Postfix,MySQL,Courier-Imap,RoundCube Webmail 2005LE/2006/2007+
• Defending against e-mail harvesters, leechers a web beacons - Easy steps to protect your server from un-wanted visitors. By Loran T. Hughes

[edit] Security Topics

• Passwords and passwd
• Detecting rootkits
• Dealing with attacks on your web server
• Physical security
• GnuPG
• Encrypted Filesystems
• msec: the Mandriva security tool

[edit] Server-Related Topics

• Samba
• Samba Domain Controller
• Samba Domain Member
• Samba Three Domain Controller
• Webmin
• Apache Log Management
• Guide to the terminal-server package
• Guide to the terminal-server2 package
• Guide to setting up disconnected authentication and authorization
• Monitoring Guide

[edit] Mail-Related Topics

• Mailfilter Tutorial
• POPFile Filtering
• Setting up Fetchmail, Procmail, and SpamAssassin
• Using Postfix
• Using Postfix and Cyrus SASL

[edit] Networking

• Networking
• Bluetooth
• Home Networking
• Netprofile
• SSH
• Proxy Services
• Virtual Private Network
  • Cisco Client
• Using Asterisk
• Interactive Firewall

[edit] Using the Command Line

• Using the Commandline Interface
• Install Disk Rescue Mode
• System Recovery Tools
• Admin Changelogs
• Data Recovery
• WatchDog
• Scrolling logs with tail or swatch in transparent terminals
• System logs
• Using serial consoles

[edit] Installation and System Configuration

• BitTorrent
• Burning CDs from ISOs
• Formatting Floppy Disks
• Making your own DVD
• Make your own bootable CD for emergency use
• Change Default Applications
• Combining CD ISOs into DVD
• Using Grub with partitions having different-size inodes

[edit] Filesystems

• File Systems
  • Converting Filesystems

[edit] Graphical Environment

• Xorg

[edit] The Linux Kernel

• |How to use urpmi to update your kernel
• Choose your Kernel

• http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ - The User-mode Linux Kernel Home Page
• http://www.kernelhq.org/ - Welcome to <nop>KernelHQ
• http://kerneltrap.org/ - kernel news
• http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/index.html - kernel configuration, compilation, upgrades, and troubleshooting
• http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/news.html - all you need to roll your own linux
• http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ - The Linux Virtual Server Project - Linux Server Cluster
• http://www.ultramonkey.org/2.0.0/ - a project to create load balanced and highly available services on a local area network
• Linux Kernel Conf
• http://www.cs.rice.edu/%7Essiyer/r/antsched/ - Anticipatory Scheduling solves Deceptive Idleness
• http://www.csn.ul.ie/%7Emel/projects/vm/ - Mel: Linux VM Project - Virtual Memory Management