Linux References

Distributions  
Linux Kernel http://www.kernel.org/
Linux.org http://www.linux.org http://www.linux.org/dist/
Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/  http://alioth.debian.org/
 Debian Backports http://www.backports.org/
RedHat Linux http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.redhat.com/apps/download
 RedHat Updates and Patch http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/index.html
Fedora (RedHat) http://fedora.redhat.com/ http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/package-list/
Mandrake Linux http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ http://www.mandrakelinux.com/zh-hk/
SUSE Linux http://www.suse.com/us/ http://www.novell.com/zh-tw/
Slackware Linux http://www.slackware.com/
Ubuntu, Edubuntu http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ http://www.ubuntu.org.cn/ http://www.edubuntu.org/
gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/
CentOS (RHEL Clone, Others: Lineox, Pie Box Linux, Whitebox Linux) http://www.centos.org/
KNOPPIX Linux Live CD http://www.knoppix.org/ http://knoppix.tnc.edu.tw/
Rocks cluster http://www.rocksclusters.org/
   
General  
The Apache Software Foundation http://www.apache.org/
Mod_ssl http://www.modssl.org/
Apache-ssl http://www.apache-ssl.org/
Jakarta Project - Apache http://jakarta.apache.org
Jakarta Tomcat http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html
Mail - Sendmail http://www.sendmail.org/
Mail - Postfix http://www.postfix.org/
Proxy - Squid Cache http://www.squid-cache.org
File and Print - Samba
http://www.samba.org
DNS - BIND(Berkeley Internet Name Domain) http://www.isc.org/products/BIND
DNS - djbdns http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
FTP - wu-ftpd http://www.wu-ftpd.org/
FTP - vsftpd http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
ssl/ssh

http://www.openssh.org
http://www.openssl.org

Directory Service - OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org
Database - MySQL http://www.mysql.com
Database - PostgreSQL http://www.postgresql.org/
Berkeley DB - embedded database system http://www.sleepycat.com/
PHP http://www.php.net/
libxml - XML C library for Gnome http://xmlsoft.org/
GD Graphics Library http://www.boutell.com/gd/
OSSP mm - shared memory library http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/mm/
Webmin (Web-based administration interface for Unix) http://www.webmin.com
GNU Privacy Guard - gpg http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP The International PGP http://www.pgpi.org/
LogWatch http://www.logwatch.org/
AppServ (apache+php+mysql) http://www.appservnetwork.com/
rSync http://rsync.samba.org/ http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
   
Others  
OpenGL accelerated desktop - Beryl http://www.beryl-project.org/
Linux Terminal Server Project http://www.ltsp.org/
Messaging and collaboration - Zimbra http://www.zimbra.com/
Blog - WordPress http://wordpress.org/ http://openfoundry.org/Foundry/Project/Wiki/91/
Xen virtual machine monitor http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html
Nessus Vulnerabilities Scanner http://www.nessus.org/
OpenVZ - OS-level server virtualization http://openvz.org/
Open-Xchange Collaboration and Integration Server http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/
SNARE (System iNtrusion Analysis and Reporting Environment) http://sourceforge.net/projects/snare/
Network Intrusion Detection System - Snort http://www.snort.org/
Host-level system integrity tool - Tripwire http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/
Host-level security services - PortSentry, Logcheck/LogSentry, and HostSentry http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/
Firewall - SmoothWall http://www.smoothwall.org/
Firewall Builder http://www.fwbuilder.org/
Photo Album - Gallery http://gallery.sourceforge.net/
Photo Album - Coppermine Photo Gallery http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/
Portal - XOOPS http://www.xoops.org/
Content managements - Zope http://www.zope.org/
Content Management System - PHP-Nuke http://phpnuke.org/
Content Management System - Postnuke http://www.postnuke.com/
Content Management System - Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/
Project management framework - dotProject.net http://www.dotproject.net/
email support ticket system - Ticketsmith http://freshmeat.net/projects/ticketsmith/
email support ticket system - Request Tracker http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/
Help Desk - Help Desk Reloaded http://www.helpdeskreloaded.com/
Search Engine - htdig http://www.htdig.org
VPN - SSL-explorer http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslexplorer/
Horde project http://www.horde.org
Webmail - imp http://www.horde.org/imp/
Webmail - Open Webmail http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/
Webmail- squirrelmail http://www.squirrelmail.org/
virtualmail-pop3d http://www.reedmedia.net/software/virtualmail-pop3d/
FAQ - Faq-O-Matic http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/ff-serve/cache/1.html
Counter - VIP http://vipscripts.hypermart.net
Forum - phpBB http://www.phpbb.com/
Forum - LeoBoard http://netsky.com.hk/diversify/cgi-bin/lbdown/lbdown.cgi
Forum - RobBoard http://www.robplanet.com
Instant Messaging - Jabber http://www.jabber.org/
Traffic Grapher - MRTG http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
Host, service and network monitoring - Nagios http://www.nagios.org/
Web-based network monitoring package - npulse http://www.horsburgh.com/h_npulse.html
Distributed monitoring system - Ganglia http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
Network Management System - OpenNMS http://www.opennms.org/users/downloads/
Network Monitor System - Big Sister
http://bigsister.graeff.com/
Portal - JA-SIG uPortal http://mis105.mis.udel.edu/ja-sig/uportal/index.html
Portal - Internet Scout Project Scout Protal Toolkit (SPT) http://scout.wisc.edu/research/SPT/
Library Portal - MyLibrary (Cornell)  
GuestBook - Active Guestbook http://www.active-scripts.net/index.html
groupware - group-office http://sourceforge.net/projects/group-office/
Card Creator - BigNoseBird.com http://bignosebird.com
Fax - HylaFAX http://www.hylafax.org/index.html
Mail Virus Scan - MailScanner http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/
Mail Virus Scan Log - MailScanner-mrtg http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailscannermrtg/
Mail Virus Scan - AMaVis http://www.amavis.org/
Mail Spam Filter - SpamAssassin http://spamassassin.apache.org/
Mail Spam Filter - DSPAM http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/
Password change - chpasswd http://chpasswd.sourceforge.net/ http://sarg.sourceforge.net/sarg.php
Real-time logfile analyzer (advanced statistics) - AWStats http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
Web log statistics - Webalizer http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
Web log - WebLog http://awsd.com/scripts/weblog/
Web Log analyser - Analog http://www.analog.cx/
WebStatistics - vip.stats http://vipscripts.hypermart.net
Web Based File Upload - Jeff's http://www.terminalp.com/scripts/
Calendar -  
Subscriber e-mail list - NoMoDoMo http://bignosebird.com/carchive/nomodomo.shtml
Email form http://www.useforesite.com/free_cgi.shtml#email
Web Based Database Manager - MySQL Man http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/mysqlman/
Swatch - The simple WATCHer http://www.oit.ucsb.edu/~eta/swatch/
Network Protocol Analyzer - Sniffer Ethereal http://www.ethereal.com/
Packet Capture Architecture for Windows - WinPcap http://winpcap.polito.it/
tcpdump http://www.tcpdump.org/
tcptrace (analysis of tcpdump files) http://jarok.cs.ohiou.edu/software/tcptrace/index.html
Version Control - Subversion http://subversion.tigris.org/
Version Control - CVS https://www.cvshome.org/
Wiki - Kwiki http://kwiki.org/
WinDump http://windump.polito.it/default.htm
WebHost Manager - Cpanel and WHM http://www.cpanel.net/
Gettext - Tools to produce multi-lingual messages http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
Linux-like environment for Windows - Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/
KDE on Cygwin http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/
High-Availability Linux Project http://www.linux-ha.org/
The Linux Virtual Server Project http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
Inventory - Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/
   
Tools  
Tera Term http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
SSH Extension to Tera Term http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html
PuTTY (Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client) http://putty.very.rulez.org/
SSHVnc http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60894&package_id=81645
TightVNC http://www.tightvnc.com/
phpLdapPasswd http://www.xenos.net/software/phpLdapPasswd/
   
Security  
The Open Source Vulnerability Database http://www.osvdb.org/
Preparing your linux box for the Internet http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html
  http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/articles/article37.html
UNIX/NT security articles http://www.securityfocus.com
Up to the moment security alert
(all kind, linux/ UNIX/ bind/ sendmail/ applications/ nt)
http://www.cert.org
   
   
Programming Resources  
Linux Command http://www.linuxcommand.org/
CGI (Perl, C and C++) http://www.cgi-resources.com http://cgi.resourceindex.com
  http://forums.internet.com
   
ASP Index http://www.aspin.com
Perl Script http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts
Steven's PHP World http://www.stevenrebello.f2s.com/main.php
Script Search (ASP, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, Perl) http://scriptsearch.internet.com/
Hotscript (ASP,JavaScript,PHP,Perl,Flash...) http://www.hotscripts.com
Zdnet Developer Scriptlibrary (JavaScript, CGI/Perl/TCL, ASP) http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/resources/scriptlibrary/
php Classes Repository http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html
Programmers Heaven http://www.programmersheaven.com/
PHP Builder http://www.phpbuilder.com
PHP Palace http://php.wilson.gs/
cgi-network.net (ASP, JavaScript, PHP, Perl) http://www.cgi-network.net/
FreeCode.com http://www.freecode.com
新時速網絡學院(簡體) http://class.gzrail.net/
Java Script Resource http://javascript.internet.com
JavaScript Reference http://158.132.148.166/ENC423/jscript/ref/
JavaScript Guide http://158.132.148.166/ENC423/jscript/guide/
Manny Juan's Script Page http://www.mannyjuan.com/
HTML 4 Manual http://158.132.148.166/ENC423/HTML/
   
Package Finder  
Finder (All kinds of program and doc) http://tuxfinder.com
RPM Find http://www.rpmfind.net/
Fresh RPMS http://freshrpms.net/ http://ayo.freshrpms.net/
FreshMeat http://freshmeat.net
SourceForge.net http://sourceforge.net/
Openfoundry.org http://www.openfoundry.org/
CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network http://www.cpan.org/
   
WebSite  
(SWP) Sun Wah - PearL Linux Limited (HKPU) http://www.swpearl.com/eng/scripts/aboutus/index.php
FirstLinux.com http://www.firstlinux.com/
LinuxToday http://linuxtoday.com/
ExtremeTech http://www.extremetech.com/
TechRepublic NetAdmin http://techrepublic.com.com/5173-6261-0.html
Internet.com http://www.internet.com/sections/lists.html
Linux Pilot (Hong Kong) http://www.linuxpilot.net
LinuxFab http://www.linuxfab.com/
LinuxHall LOOP http://www.linuxhall.org/
Hong Kong Linux User Group http://www.linux.org.hk
Hong Kong Linux Player Group http://www.hklpg.org/
Linuxguruz (Tutorials, resource links)* http://www.linuxguruz.org/
HKSN - Open Source Testing Center http://ost.school.net.hk/
   
Reference Documents  
RFC search http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/index.html
YoLinux Information Portal http://www.yolinux.com/
Linux Tutorials http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/
The Linux Documentation Project http://en.tldp.org/
  http://en.tldp.org/LDP/gs/gs.html
  http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/WWW-HOWTO-6.html
The Linux System Administrator's Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/
Linux Chinese HOWTO English Version http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Chinese-HOWTO.html
Ports for Internet Services http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/port-table.html#Table
Port-Number http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
Protocol-Number http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers
ICMP TYPE NUMBERS
http://www.iana.org/assignments/icmp-parameters
Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) http://www.iana.org/gtld/gtld.htm
Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) Conversion Table http://www.belchfire.net/webtools/cidr_converstion_table.html
Network subnetting Tutorial
http://www.certguide.com/subnetchou.asp
Comparison of databases http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/rdbmssql.html
MySQL How-to http://202.117.7.11/mysqldoc/manual_toc.html
Inter-Active micro-manual for new vi users http://www.navigare.org/vi-muman.html
vi editor: advanced features http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialAdvanced_vi.html
Linux Home Networking PDF Topics http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/index.htm#Linux
Computer Time Synchronization http://geodsoft.com/howto/timesync/wininstall.htm
   
Newsgroup  
Linux taiwan news://tw.bbs.comp.linux
   
   
Utilities  
Check Domain http://www.checkdomain.com
Domain Registration (Hong Kong) http://www.hkirc.net.hk/hkdnr/index.jsp
Proxy Check (HKU) http://i.csis.hku.hk/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/sltam/proxy.html
web-based trace route http://www.tracert.com/cgi-bin/trace.pl
web-based ping http://www.tracert.com/cgi-bin/ping.pl
web-based nslookup http://www.csu.net/cgi-bin/nslookup
web-based nslookup with NS server http://www.kloth.net/nslookup.php
   
   
Solution Provider  
Debug Net (Hong Kong) http://www.debugnet.com/
Project Honeynet 為了學習black hat使用的技巧 http://project.honeynet.org/
   
   
Check DNS registration (Hong Kong) nslookup -q=ns hongai.edu.hk 137.189.6.1
   
   

 

 

 

Linux sharing session outline

  1. Start / stop linux
    1. sync
    2. reboot
    3. shutdown
    4. poweroff
  2. login
    1. su
  3. X window environment
    1. startx
  4. directory navigation
    1. find
    2. cd
    3. ls
  5. user account management
    1. add
    2. delete
    3. modify
    4. assign / change password
  6. file / directory permission
    1. owner / group / others
  7. remote management
    1. telnet
    2. ftp
    3. ssh
  8. utilities
    1. ping
    2. traceroute
    3. vi
    4. mail
    5. ps
    6. grep
  9. file handling
    1. copy
    2. rename
    3. delete
    4. move
  10. backup and restore
    1. tar
    2. dump
  11. service restart
    1. linuxconf
    2. httpd
    3. sendmail
    4. inet
  12. package installation
    1. rpm query
    2. rpm installation
  13. Installation