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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.
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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