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This is my personal knowledge base. It's mainly about Linux engineering, development, system customization, and networking but also some things I might want to recall about other operating systems. So basically this an extension of my thoughts, but you are welcome to navigate around this wiki, hope it helps you too much.

If you want to make some comments or just say hello, you can send me an email to [email protected]

Software Development

Interpreted Languages

• Bash - Command language interpreter
• Perl - The camel
• Python - The snake
• Ruby - The stone

SDKs

• Android - Google mobile platform
• Java - The Sun Microsystems Language
• openFrameworks - C++ toolkit for creative coding
• Qt4 - Cross-Platform application development framework

Web

• CSS - Style sheet language
• Javascript - JS frameworks

Windows

• ASP.Net - Active Server Pages

System Administration

Authentication

• PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules
• passwd - Password database

Boot

• Booting devices - Devices and loaders
• Boot parameters - Kernel parameters
• Wake-on-LAN - Power up a remote PC on the same LAN

Cloud Computing

• AWS - Amazon Web Services
• Eucalyptus - Private cloud computing

Configuration management & provisioning

• Ansible - Radically simple IT automation tool
• Cobbler - Network based OS installation
• Puppet - Unix & windows configuration management tool

Content Management Systems

• moinmoin - Python Wiki clone

Data Encoding

• uuencode - Binary to text encoding

Database

• MySQL - The world's most poupular DB
• Oracle - Specifically Oracle XE
• Postgres - The world's most advanced DB
• Vertica - BigData SQL analytic platform

Disk management and storage

• Disk images - Partitions and FS
• DRBD - Distributed storage system
• LVM - An allocation mode
• RAID - Hardware and Software RAID tools

Email

• Mutt - CLi email client
• Sendmail - A very widely used MTA

Encryption

• OpenSSL - SSL and TLS Protocols
• GnuPG - GNU Privacy Guard
• SKS - GPG Keyserver

Filesystem

• GlusterFS - Scalable network FS
• NFS - Need for Speed

Kernel

• Modules - Kernel module drivers
• Power management - Linux power management
• udev - Device manager

Monitoring

• M/Monit - Processes monitoring and management
• Nagios - Hosts monitoring
• SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

Network hardware

• Brocade - Brocade/Foundry switches
• Cisco - Routers and switches

Network services

• DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• DNS - Domain Name System

Remote access

• VNC - Graphical desktop sharing
• VPN - Remote private access over public networks

Security

• Aide - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment
• PCI compliance - Payment Card Industry

System services

• IPTables - IP packets filter rules in the Linux kernel
• SSH - Secure shell
• Syslog - System log

Virtualization

• KVM - Kernel-Based Virtual Machine
• VMware - Server/Desktop Virtualization

Web services

• Apache - HTTP Server
• Nginx - Lightweight HTTP and mail proxy server

Operating Systems

GNU/Linux

• CentOS - Free Red Hat Enterprise rebuild
• Debian - The Universal Operating System
• Fedora - RPM based with the latest in opensource
• Ubuntu - DEB based distribution
• Zentyal - Linux alternative for SMBs based on Ubuntu

Other Unix

• Mac OS X - Apple operating system
• OpenBSD - Multi-platform BSD 4.4 based Unix-like OS
• Open Solaris - Sun Microsystems open-source OS

Windows

• Windows XP - 2002 MS OS
• Windows 7 - 2009 MS OS
• Windows Server 2012 - The server version of "Windows 7"

Desktop Administration

Browser

• Firefox - Web browser
• Flash player - SWF media player
• Google - Some search tips

GUI

• GDM - Gnome desktop manager
• Gnome - Desktop environment
• Xorg - Implementation of the X Window System

Multimedia

• FFmpeg - Audio and video streaming
• GStreamer - Library for Media and Graphs
• MuseScore - Music Compositon

Computer Systems

Branded Sytems

• AMD Geode - AMD mobile CPU on thin clients
• Dell - Dell systems
• Mac Mini - Apple small factor desktop
• VIA CX700 - VIA Mobile CPU on small factor systems

Peripheral Devices

• MSR - Magnetic Stripe Readers
• Touchscreens - Resistive and capacitive touchscreens

Electronics

Development Boards

• Arduino - Arduino boards and IDE
• Make Controller - ARM7 with Atmel micro
• MSP-EXP430G2 - TI MSP430 LaunchPad

Embedded Linux

• Cross Compiling - Create executables for other architectures

Microcontrollers

• ARM - ARM7/9 and Cortex-M
• Atmel AVR - Atmel AVR micros
• Microchip PIC - Microchip pic micros

PCB

• Eagle CAD - PCB Schematic and design
• Electronics providers - List of part providers and manufacture

System-on-Chip

• Cubox-i - Fanless nettop-class computer based on i.MX6
• Raspberry Pi Tiny and affordable computer
• VoCore - A coin-sized Linux computer with WiFi

Music

Synths

• Akai - Classic samplers
• Alesis - Quadrasynth and QS series
• E-MU Systems - Proteus and Ultra sample series
• Ensoniq - The last flagship keyboard and racks
• Hammond - Portable tonewheel organs
• HX3 - FPGA modeled tonewheel organ
• Korg - Most of the rack version of the 90's synths
• Kurzweil - K series and PC series
• Moog - Analog synths
• Roland - JV series and successors
• Yamaha - Motif series

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