[Techtalk] opinions wanted!

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Carla Schroder wrote:
>  I'm writing the outline for the 2nd edition of the Linux Cookbook, whee, how the years do fly by. What topics are your burning desire? In addition to correcting embarassing blunders and updating old stuff, I'll add chapters on software RAID, LVM, and Zeroconf/Avahi.
>
> What else should go in there? Check the table of contents for inspiration:
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> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxckbk/toc.html
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> Carla
>   
Hi Carla,

some of this is going to be obvious, just mentioning as i myself tend to 
forget the obvious :)

ch 5: update to use /sys

ch 9: disk partitioning schemes? I know this gets close to holy 
wars/flame wars, but might be good to add some thoughts here.

ch 16: you might want to check out rdiff-backup (shameless plug for my 
favourite backup program)

ch 18: Subversion! also, hg is used a lot nowadays

ch 20: you are missing sendmail :) :) :) (or just point to one of many 
good sendmail tutorials)


What i am missing is firewalls & VPN's. Especially firewalls should in 
my view be present, as we are in an evermore connected internet world. 
And it is going to become more important to understand it when going to 
IPv6.

Also, although samba is there, NFS for file sharing is not mentioned. 
And is in my humble opinion to be preferred between linux machines above 
samba, as samba inherently assumes one user per PC, so the network links 
have to be build after user login. On performance they are about equal 
(if well configured). At the moment a lot of effort is put into 
supporting NFS over IPv6.

Cheers,


Rudy