SAT2711 Ch1 notes

complete list of Linux kernals: www.kernel.org
complete open source def'n: www.opensource.org
GNU stands for "GNUs Not UNIX."
GPL freely available: www.gnu.org
list of approved open source licenses: www.opensource.org
Linux Advantages:
- risk reduction
- meeting business needs
- stability and security
- flexibility for different hardware platforms
- ease of customization
- ease of obtaining support
- cost reduction
OSS
- SourceForge: www.sourceforge.net
- FishMeat: www.fishmeat.net
- Ibiblio: www.ibiblio.org
list of recent computer viruses: www.viruslist.com
list of embedded linux vendors: www.embedded-linux.org
HOWTO documents: www.tldp.org or from Linux Documentation Project www.linuxdoc.org
search for Linux groups: http://groups.google.com
use google to search for LUG in your city
description of FSF and GNU: www.gnu.org
GUI in Linux is referred to as X Windows: www.XFree86.org
GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME)
K Desktop Environment (KDE)
complete list of Linux distributions: www.linux.org
Linux Distributions
- Red Hat Linux: www.redhat.com
- SuSE Linux: www.suse.com
- Slackware Linux: www.slackware.com
- Debian Linux: www.debian.org
- TurboLinux: www.turbolinux.com
- Mandrake Linux: www.mandrakelinux.com
common uses of Linux
- Internet servers
  - Mail services
    - Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) - sendmail, postfix, smail, qmail
    - Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) - procmail, fetchmail
    - Mail User Agent (MUA) - mutt, pine, printmail, elm, mail, Netscape, Eudora
  - Routing
  - FTP services
    - Washington University FTP Server (wu-ftp): www.wu-ftpd.org
  - Firewalls and proxy services
    - netfilter/iptables: www.netfilter.org
    - Squid proxy server: www.squid-cache.org
  - Web services
    - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
    - Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
    - Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
    - Apache Web Server: www.apache.org
  - News services
    - news reader for Linux: http://linux.tucows.com/news_default.html
    - copy of InterNetworkNews (INN): www.isc.org/products/INN/
  - DNS services
    - Internet Protocol (IP) address
    - fully qualified domain names (FQDNs): IPs masked by strings of user-friendly names such as www.linux.org
    - Domain Naming Service (DNS)
    - Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (BIND): www.isc.org (Internet Systems Consortium - ISC)
- File and print servers
  - Network File System (NFS)
  - Samba: www.samba.org
- Application servers
  - Database Management Systems (DBMS): http://scilinux.sourceforge.net/database.html
  - MySQL: www.mysql.com
  - Webmin: www.webmin.com
- Supercomputers
  - Beowulf clusters: www.beowulf.org
- Scientific/Engineering Workstation
  - Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCnet): www.sharcnet.ca
- Office Workstation
  - text editor (such as Nedit)
  - word processor (such as Abiword)
  - graphic editing software (such as Gimp)
  - desktop publishing software (such as Lyx)
  - financial software (such as Gnucash)
  - office productivity suites (such as StarOffice)