World Wide Web links for Linux

Sections of this document:

Basic and turorial information
General Linux sites
Linux Documentation Project
Security for Linux
Linux firewalls
Miscellaneous Linux information

Other documents with web links

Basic and tutorial Linux information

Linux Getting Started HOWTO document
A getting started guide from the U of Oregon
A large link collection which includes a lot of introductory and tutorial material on Unix, Linux, the net, . . .

General Linux sites

Freshmeat Linux news
Slashdot "News for Nerds"
Linux Online
Linux HQ
tux.org

Linux Documentation Project

LDP site
Meta-FAQ guide to Linux information sources
Index of HOWTO documents
Alternate HOWTO source, www.linux-howto.com
Kernel HOWTO
Security HOWTO
Networking Overview HOWTO
Net 3 HOWTO
System Administrator's Guide
Network Adminstrator's Guide

Advanced routing

The Linux IP stack is getting some new features in 2.4 kernels. Most are already available as experimental code in 2.3 kernels. Some HowTos have been written:

several HowTos for the netfilter firewall code in newer kernels
2.4 networking HowTo
2.4 routing HowTo

Security for Linux

Security HOWTO
Trinity OS guide to setting up Linux
Linux Administrator's Security Guide
Linux security page
Unix security page
PPDD encrypting filesystem
Linux Encryption HowTo This does not cover FreeS/WAN (or didn't when I last checked, April 2000), only gives a pointer to our web site, but does have some good information on other things.

Linux firewalls

Linux Firewall page
IP Masquerade resource page
IP chains, the firewall code in 2.2 kernels.
netfilter firewall code in kernels from 2.3.15 on
Our list of general firewall references on the web

Miscellaneous Linux information

List of Linux distribution vendors
Mason, a tool for automatically configuring Linux firewalls
FAQ for the Linux adminstration mailing list
A web page about PPTP for Linux with a list of other Linux VPN software

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