The Linux Thread 2004

[stix_kua]

Okay, while on the subway coming home today after a meeting with my summer job boss, I came up with this idea of a Sysopt Thread the culminates all of possible information about Linux. It'll be one-stop-shop for all Linux users in which every user on this forum is asked to add as much information they have about Linux as possible so that n00bs to Linux may have this as a resource. I'll start by providing this link about bash, the Bourne Again Shell:

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Let's keep it going...

[sm8000]

I'll chip in. If anybody wants to make a Linux router out of a spare computer - a router with real NAT, and other features much more powerful than ICS - then check out the Linux Router Project:

http://www.linuxrouter.org

The software is small enough to fit on a floppy disk

[richard_cocks]

here's the links from a file I keep on my PC called "links", it's just a file I use that I upload and use to transfer bookmarks between windows and linux, so usually are useful links for doing stuff.

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
this is like my linux newbie BIBLE. IT was solely THIS tutorial which turned me from thinking "hey, why did I want this OS again?" to thinking "wow I need this in my life".

http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz
similar, but slightly wordier, generally more comprehensive I found it less easy as a newbie, but clearly a good book nonetheless.

http://www.slackware.com/book/
Worth reading for better fine-tuning your system and setting up X to more your liking etc.

http://kitschparade.ath.cx/vera.php
not really linux related, this is just a link to the sexy default (at least in the slackware distro I use) KDE font (it's a link for bitsteam vera sans those of you wondering) so you can use in windows too. Similar to verdana, but quirkier and I find easier to read.

[stix_kua]

And here is a link for choosing and finding distributions...

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Distributio...WTO/index.html

or if you know what you awant already, go here and download one...

http://www.linuxiso.org