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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.

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You too can run Linux Everywhere!

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  1. Orv Beach Training Chair, Southern California Linux Expo System Administrator, St. Jude Medical You too can run Linux Everywhere!

  2. Why is Linux so Popular? • Highly-configurable • Components can be added or removed easily • Stable • Design makes for mostly crash-proof operation.

  3. 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

  4. Where can you run Linux? • The desktop

  5. Where can you run Linux? • The laptop

  6. Where can you run Linux? • A home server • Web server • File server • Media server • Etc etc etc • Hardware requirements are minimal

  7. But Wait! There's More! • Dedicated Firewall - ClearOS

  8. 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

  9. But Wait! There's More! • Dedicated Firewall - Smoothwall

  10. But Wait! There's More! • Dedicated Firewall - M0n0wall

  11. But Wait! There's More! • Dedicated Firewall - PfSense

  12. But Wait! There's More! • Wireless Access Point (“Router)

  13. But Wait! There's More! • Wireless Access Point (“Router)

  14. But Wait! There's More! • NAS (Network Attached Storage) • Speaks Windows, Apple, Linux • Tons of nifty features

  15. But Wait! There's More! • Smartphone replacement software • Latest kernel, tuned for efficiency • No crapware • Cyanogenmod – most popular • Many other “custom ROMs” available

  16. But Wait! There's More! • MediaCenters - XBMC Live

  17. But Wait! There's More! • MediaCenter - Mythbuntu

  18. But Wait! There's More! • MediaCenter – Geexbox

  19. But Wait! There's More! • Live CDs/DVDs/Thumb Drives • Bootable, special purpose Linux distributions

  20. But Wait! There's More! • System Rescue-CD

  21. DBAN - Darik's Boot and Nuke “...prevents all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis” But Wait! There's More!

  22. 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

  23. 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)

  24. Where to get the goodies! • SystemRescueCd - www.sysresccd.org/ • Gparted - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ • DBAN - http://www.dban.org/ • FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/

  25. 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/

  26. Questions?

  27. Orv.beach@gmail.com Answers!

  28. For a Refresher... • This presentation available for download at: • www.orvsplace.net/temp/ • Filename: apcug_05_04_13.pdf

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