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KDE vs GNOME vs WindowManager and XWindows.<BR>
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Peripheral Hardware methods<BR>
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dmesg<BR>
lsusb<BR>
hdparms<BR>
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Printing. CUPS, lpr, drivers from manufacturers. Why? In the early days, Linux was used as the printer server for all Windows houses.<BR>
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Backups: Burning CD/DVD, thumb drives, tape drives<BR>
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Disk space: df, du, etc<BR>
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SECURITY<BR>
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VNC via ssh tunnel with prepackaged ssvnc and the like. VPN, SSL, CA command, key-gen, key chain, RSA, DSA, AES<BR>
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Daemons/Services<BR>
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chroot ssh<BR>
chroot bind<BR>
No root userid<BR>
apache non root userid, fastcgi, suexec, suphp, more...<BR>
To disable telnetd and ftpd, in favor of scp/sftp.<BR>
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Scripting, shell choices (best per application)<BR>
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Routing Commands<BR>
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ip or obsolete ifconfig<BR>
route -nr and other troubleshooting options.<BR>
firewalls ifp, iptables, GUIs (Firestarter, ...)<BR>
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BGP<BR>
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Peter<BR>
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