Linux Tutorials

Tux may look like a cute little penguin, but inside the belly of the beast, is a monster.

Anyone who's switched (or tried to switch) from Windows® to Linux knows that it's a steep learning curve. I often found myself forgetting how to do certain things, usually from banging my head into the wall so many times, that I decided to start writing them down.

Those notes eventually became the tutorials you see below, I still use them, and published them in the hope they're useful to others too.

Desktop Tutorials

• Cron: Automating Tasks
  Cron is a utility that comes with pretty much all distributions. This tutorial explains how to use it.

• iptables: Configuring the Firewall
  A tutorial explaining how to setup the firewall as either "block all" and allow specific services, or "allow all" and block specific services.

• Mounting File Systems
  This tutorial aims to explain what a file system is, the different types of file systems, and how to mount and configure them in fstab to mount automatically.

• Setting up Linux for Shared Public Use
  This tutorial explains how to setup a user account that will reset itself when the user logs out, the account is stored on a RAM disk, so no information is ever physically saved to the computer's hard disk.

Server Tutorials

• NFS: Network File System
  A short tutorial on configuring a NFS server and connecting a client.

• OpenSSL: Generating Server Certificates
  OpenSSL is an open source package provided with Fedora for creating server certificates. This tutorial explains how to create an SSL certificate and use it within Apache, Postfix and Dovecot.

• Quota: Disk Usage Management
  Using disk quotas enables you to restrict the amount of storage space users and groups may use. This can be invaluable on shared servers.

• Setup Samba as a Primary Domain Controller
  This short tutorial shows the steps and Samba configuration file needed for it to run as a primary domain controller.

• Software RAID with MDADM
  This tutorial covers the different types or RAID and configuring a RAID1 filesystem on Fedora.

Misc Tutorials

• Setup a Left4Dead Dedicated Server on Linux
  This tutorial explains how to setup a Left4Dead (L4D) dedicated server on Linux.