Any Specific Linux Guides Required?

[iGuest 3]

Well I thought I'll get some ideas on what guides I could write about, so far I'm going to finish off the rest of the Fedora 18 minimal installation guide with installing a graphical user interface. I may even start adding things like HTML 5/CSS 3, Python, PHP and C++ eventually. I can't guarantee I'll get around to doing these, but it'll give me something to focus on while I'm at Xisto.

 

Other guides in the planning that aren't really Fedora 18 specific except I'm using Fedora 18 to do it:

Using yum

Using vi(m)

Using bash and understanding a few common programs to use with it like grep and others

Creating an SSH server and connecting with SSH client includes reading SSH logs

Creating a web server for testing using virtualhost to serve pages from your user directory includes web server logs

Creating an FTP server for uploading to your own Web server includes reading FTP logs

Using Oracle VirtualBox for running virtual operating systems

Using gnome-boxes for running virtual operating systems

Installing Fedora 18

Minimal install of Fedora 18

Adding and configuring user after minimal install, text web browser, updates and shutdown

Installing GNOME 3 onto a minimal installation with suggestions of programs you may want to have

Reading all sorts of logs

Backing up with Deja Dup

Backing up with Clonezilla

Creating a cloud server includes reading cloud server logs

As with all my guides, they are showing the steps that I have used to set up my system or do in my system. Some of the steps are being done at the time of writing the guides and have all been verified to work. Most OS installation guides were ran using virtualisation like virtualbox and gnome-boxes. So you'll know that you are getting something that should work and if you do have problems with the guides, ask and I maybe able to help you through it as every system can have differing results.

 

Cheers,

 

MC

[yordan 10]

Maybe creating a backup-restore server?If you have several PC's in your home, you will need a strong backup/restore policy for the operating systems.First create a samba server if your main PC is a Linux one, or create a share if your main PC is a Windows one.Then learn how to boot on a cloneZilla cd and create a full backup on the samba server.Then learn how to restore this backup on a crashed system.

[iGuest 3]

OK, I can write guides on doing backups which means I think I need to write it on the main two which is Deja Dup and Clonezilla because they both serve different purposes. For me though, Clonezilla is more suited for system wide deployment because it only allows partitions or drives to be restored in their saved state (you could not just get a single file, well, without a lot of effort) and can consume a lot more space. Deja Dup on the other hand, will back up files in locations you choose and can also update only differences, saves a lot of time, it also supports backing up to cloud servers, so I guess I'll have to write on creating a cloud server, as I don't feel like backing up over the internet.I will also include guides on samba for file sharing, etc, I might add printer sharing too if it'll allows me to share a pdf printer, as I don't actually have a printer.Thanks for the suggestions,MC

[Ahsaniqbalkmc 0]

That's good news for me. As I have written on several other posts of mine in this forum, I have been trying to tame the linux beast. There is a huge collection of helping material online but sometimes, the problem is very minor and requires detailed instructions. Combine this with the fact that the user is not very literate with linux OS and you can easily understand why online helping material isn't always that helpful. In contrast to the online helping material, discussions are always helpful because the problem the attention is exclusively on the specific problem a user is having. Furthermore, it is also helpful for the community because the material is there to be read by others as well. So I am assuming that your guides and the discussions related to them would be a great service for the linux community. And this would also be great for linux newbies like myself, because there would be a lot to learn. So I am looking forward for your guides as I can clearly see there is a lot to learn from your posts. I am also planning to put forward my problems that I am currently having with linux in as much detail as possible and I hope that you would also take time to answer those.

[yordan 10]

Using bash and understand a few common programs to use with it like grep and others

bash is only one Unix shell, csh is a very common one, and I am using ksh all thay long.and "grep" or "awk" are not specifi to bash, but are standard Unix programs, which apply to Linux which is fortunately is a standard Unix too.

[iGuest 3]

Well, the bash I refer to is GNU bash shell and common programs would also be GNU provided programs as well. So I'll try to touch on those as they work well together and help in different situations. Unfortunately I wouldn't have enough time to explain the other shells like C Shell and Korn Shell, but they all work similar so it's not hard learning one and being able to use what you learn on other shells. The programs should also be very common on variants of Unix/Linux so learning these should help you on any Unix/Linux based distribution. You will find on most Linux distributions that GNU tools are the most common, which is where I want to base my guides on, because I wouldn't really recommend using what wasn't provided as standard as that goes against my minimal philosophy.Cheers,MC