You too can run Linux Everywhere!
Orv Beach Training Chair, Southern California Linux Expo System Administrator, St. Jude Medical. You too can run Linux Everywhere!. Why is Linux so Popular?. Highly-configurable Components can be added or removed easily Stable Design makes for mostly crash-proof operation.
You too can run Linux Everywhere!
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Orv Beach Training Chair, Southern California Linux Expo System Administrator, St. Jude Medical You too can run Linux Everywhere!
Why is Linux so Popular? • Highly-configurable • Components can be added or removed easily • Stable • Design makes for mostly crash-proof operation.
Why is Linux so Popular? • Secure • Design makes it hard to crack (“hack”) • And Free • All software shown here can be obtained with a free download
Where can you run Linux? • The desktop
Where can you run Linux? • The laptop
Where can you run Linux? • A home server • Web server • File server • Media server • Etc etc etc • Hardware requirements are minimal
But Wait! There's More! • Dedicated Firewall - ClearOS
But Wait! There's More! • Dedicated Firewall • Running on junk • Salvaged IBM ThinkCentre • 500 MB RAM (uses 200) • 36Gig disc (uses 1.6) • Additional NIC • Substantially higher throughput than a router
But Wait! There's More! • Dedicated Firewall - Smoothwall
But Wait! There's More! • Dedicated Firewall - M0n0wall
But Wait! There's More! • Dedicated Firewall - PfSense
But Wait! There's More! • Wireless Access Point (“Router)
But Wait! There's More! • Wireless Access Point (“Router)
But Wait! There's More! • NAS (Network Attached Storage) • Speaks Windows, Apple, Linux • Tons of nifty features
But Wait! There's More! • Smartphone replacement software • Latest kernel, tuned for efficiency • No crapware • Cyanogenmod – most popular • Many other “custom ROMs” available
But Wait! There's More! • MediaCenters - XBMC Live
But Wait! There's More! • MediaCenter - Mythbuntu
But Wait! There's More! • MediaCenter – Geexbox
But Wait! There's More! • Live CDs/DVDs/Thumb Drives • Bootable, special purpose Linux distributions
But Wait! There's More! • System Rescue-CD
DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke “...prevents all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis” But Wait! There's More!
But Wait! There's More! • Gparted • Feature-packed partition editor • Create partition tables • Create, move, copy, resize, check, label, set new UUID, and delete partitions • Enable and disable partition flags, (e.g., boot or hidden) • Attempt data rescue from lost partitions
Where to get the goodies! • ClearOS - http://www.clearfoundation.com/ • PfSense - http://www.pfsense.org/ • M0n0wall - http://m0n0.ch/wall/downloads.php • Smoothwall - http://www.smoothwall.org/ • DD WRT - http://www.dd-wrt.com • OpenWRT - https://openwrt.org/ • http://www.myopenrouter.com/ (Netgear specific)
Where to get the goodies! • SystemRescueCd - www.sysresccd.org/ • Gparted - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ • DBAN - http://www.dban.org/ • FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/
Where to get the goodies! • Cyanogenmod - http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ • XBMC Live - http://xbmc.org/ • Mythbuntu- http://www.mythbuntu.org/ • Geexbox - http://www.geexbox.org/
Orv.beach@gmail.com Answers!
For a Refresher... • This presentation available for download at: • www.orvsplace.net/temp/ • Filename: apcug_05_04_13.pdf