Firewall.cx's New Linux Section

Well thanks to the posts I have been reading form you guys and a very helpful fellow over at Avaya I am now experimenting with Linux (as of today).

Its a bit of a learning curve I must say but the one thing I have found super helpful so far is the knoppix-std distribution from www.knoppix-std.org/

Sahirh - would this be one of those links that might prove useful to other Windows users who are experimenting with Linux in your Linux articles.

- what logs to check for various problems and where they are.
- the important configuration files and what they are used for
- I would like to see a tutorial somewhere on how to setup and use MRTG/RDD and create custom web pages to go with it.

Second all of those, and in that order

Also, I think there are more than enough "what distro?" guides out there, I think we could do without one

Chris, i'm still waiting for that iptables tutorial You've promised



Since F.cx is site which focus on firewalls and networking i think that it would be great to mention some of Linux-box hardening and Linux networking. You could also pick one of this topics:
1). How to setup some popular services - samba, http, ssh ...
2). Some basic bash programing.
3). Kernel compiling.

Your site is great. ( it lacks wireless networking - but maybe soon... :roll: ).

Chris actually does a great IPtables tutorial, I sat through it in netmeeting one night ! I still have it saved..

You guys better force him to write it

The Linux section is officially open

Notice the little 'Linux/Unix' menu between 'Networking' and 'Articles' ? If not, you may need to clear your cache.

Here's a direct link as
www.firewall.cx/linux-openmosix-intro.php


Cheers,

We would like to inform you that there are two new articles almost ready to be published in our Linux section.

The first one is a basic introduction to the Linux operating system, while the second one is a trip around the linux command line and some great utilities you can use to get your job done.

We've been spending some time on cleaning the site from some old junk code which has been responsible for the delay some have experienced when visiting the forums. To give you an idea what a clean up involves, we'll just mention that this site consists of over 6200 files

There's alot of work being done constantly on the site, its material and the upcoming Cisco lab, and unfortunately priorities change constantly depending on the problems and site enhancements we want to bring online, so please do bear with us!

Cheers,