Linux operating system

• Linux is a Unix-like operating system
• Configuring/partitional disk drives:
• Partition, install and configure a Linux system
• Configuring a Linux-Windows XP dual-boot system (including details about disk partitioning, software installation and configuration)
• Sharing a Windows hard drive from a Linux box using Samba
• Some Linux basics:
• RUN-LEVELS outlined
• Signals outlined
• useful command lines summarised
• useful find command lines summarised
• Summary configuration processes:
• Fundamental server applications:
• LVM disk volume management
• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• Apache web-server
• (secure) Apache web-server
• PHP on a Linux server
• MySQL on a Linux server
• PHPMyAdmin on a Linux server
• Mantis Bug Tracker (carried out on a non-Linux virtual machine)
• NTP time-server on a Linux server
• DNS configuration
• FTP configuration
• SNMP configuration
• Subversion source code management on a Linux Server (with Apache)
• Security:
• SSH on a Linux server
• TCP wrapper on a Linux server
• FTP to run through a SSH tunnel on a Linux server (and including configuring the necessary workstation client software)
• Useful stats and network monitoring applications:
• Webalizer for Web Stats on an Apache/Linux server
• MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) network traffic load graphing tool
• Nagios system status monitoring tool
• Monitorix local performance monitoring tool
• lm_sensors hardware monitoring tool
• Connectivity:
• IrDA Infrared Data Association (an industry standard for infrared wireless communication)
• Bluetooth open wireless protocol for exchanging data
• gnokii mobile phone tools and drivers
• wireless on a Linux server
• Dynamis DNS:
• dyndns.com ddclient dynamic DNS client on Linux
• no-ip.org noip2 dynamic DNS client on Linux
• Webcam related:
• webcams on a Linux system (examples of multiple webcams on server and workstation configurartions)
• Zoneminder webcam control and monitoring application on a Linux server
• mplayer for use with the Zoneminder webcam control and monitoring application to grab images from the Linksys WVC54G IP web-cam.
• Backup related:
• backups on a Linux server
• useful database backup command lines summarised
• General Linux resources on the Internet.