Linux Articles!

1.  Gentoo & Linux related articles

Please note that this document is no longer maintained. This includes any and all links to the original documents in the IBM/DevWorks repository. For more information, please see bug #139688.

The Gentoo Documentation Project has converted many articles listed on this page to the GuideXML format and publishing it on the Gentoo web site.

Please do visit the Gentoo & Linux Articles repository.

2.  Articles by Gentoo Linux Developers

A number of our developers have written articles for the Linux community. Here are the relevant links.

Daniel Robbins, Chris Houser, and Aron Griffis

Daniel Robbins (drobbins) was Gentoo's Chief Architect. Chris Houser (chouser) and Aron Griffis (agriffis) are Tru64 UNIX device driver engineers at HP.

1. LPI Certification 101 Exam Prep
   • Part 1: Linux fundamentals
   • Part 2: Basic administration
   • Part 3: Intermediate administration
   • Part 4: Advanced administration
2. LPI Certification 102 Exam Prep
   • Part 1: Compiling sources and managing packages
   • Part 2: Configuring and compiling the kernel
   • Part 3: Networking
   • Part 4: Secure shell and file sharing

Mikael Hallendal

Mikael Hallendal (Hallski) wrote this article during his tenure as a GNOME developer and Gentoo Linux Desktop Team Leader.

• GNOMEnclature: Getting ready for GNOME 2 (Part 1)

Chris Houser

Chris Houser (chouser) is a Tru64 UNIX device driver engineer at HP.

• Introduction to XFree86 4.x

Daniel Robbins

Daniel Robbins (drobbins) was Gentoo's Chief Architect.

1. Advanced filesystem implementer's guide
   • Part 1, Journalling and ReiserFS
   • Part 2, Using ReiserFS and Linux 2.4
   • Part 3, Using the virtual memory (VM) filesystem and bind mounts
   • Part 4, Introduction to devfs
   • Part 5, Setting up devfs
   • Part 6, Implementing devfs (using the init wrapper)
   • Part 7, Introducing ext3
   • Part 8, Surprises in ext3
   • Part 9, Introducing XFS
   • Part 10, Deploying XFS
   • Part 11, Filesystem update
   • Part 12, Introduction to EVMS
   • Part 13, More about EVMS
2. The gentoo.org redesign: A site reborn
   • Part 1, XML, XSLT, and Python breathe new life into an old site
   • Part 2, The doc system
   • Part 3, The new main pages
   • Part 4, The final touch
3. POSIX threads explained
   • Part 1, A simple and nimble tool for memory sharing
   • Part 2, The little things called mutexes
   • Part 3, Improve efficiency with condition variables
4. Bash by example
   • Part 1, Fundamental programming in the Bourne again shell (bash)
   • Part 2, More bash programming fundamentals
   • Part 3, Exploring the ebuild system
5. Awk by example
   • Part 1, An intro to the great language with the strange name
   • Part 2, Records, loops, and arrays
   • Part 3, String functions and ... checkbooks?
6. Sed by example
   • Part 1, Get to know the powerful UNIX editor
   • Part 2, How to further take advantage of the UNIX text editor
   • Part 3, Taking it to the next level: Data crunching, sed style
7. Linux hardware stability guide
   • Part 1, CPU and memory troubleshooting
   • Part 2, Drivers, IRQs, and PCI latency
8. Making the distribution
   • Part 1, Birth of the Gentoo Linux distribution
   • Part 2, From Enoch to Gentoo, via minor setbacks and corporate run-ins
   • Part 3, The author strays from Linux and then returns
9. OpenSSH key management
   • Part 1, Understanding RSA/DSA authentication
   • Part 2, Introducing ssh-agent and keychain
   • Part 3, Agent forwarding and keychain improvements
10. Learning Linux LVM
    • Part 1, Storage management magic with Logical Volume Management
    • Part 2, The cvs.gentoo.org upgrade
11. Introduction to Samba
    • Part 1, Key concepts
    • Part 2, Compiling, installing, and configuring Samba for your environment
    • Part 3, Getting Samba to samba: The configuration stage
12. Partitioning in action
    • Moving /home: A step-by-step partition moving how-to
    • Consolidating data: Moving /tmp and /var to their own shared partition
13. Linux 2.4 Software RAID
    • Part 1, Installation and a general introduction
    • Part 2, Setting up RAID-1 in a production environment
14. Maximum swappage
15. Linux 2.4 stateful firewall design (tutorial)
16. Dynamic iptables firewalls
17. Compiling the Linux kernel
18. Samba domain controller support: Integrating Samba into an NT environment
19. Prompt magic: Enhancing the system prompt
20. CVS for the developer or amateur (tutorial)
21. vi intro -- the cheat sheet method (tutorial)
22. Rebol scripting basics (tutorial)
23. Fast Web browsing with a caching proxy (tutorial)
24. Getting to know GRUB (tutorial)
25. JFS fundamentals (tutorial)
26. Backing up your Linux machines (tutorial)
27. Partition planning tips: How to keep things organized on disk
28. Compiling and installing software from sources (tutorial)
29. Upgrading applications from sources
30. Linux clustering with MOSIX (tutorial)
31. Inside Samba 2.2: New, improved, and enterprise-ready