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