SysAdmin Links

SysAdmin Links


Satellite ISPs
Satellite Internet DiRECWAY Broadband Satellite Internet Access Installed Anywhere By Skycasters
Nomad Technologies, Inc.
ku-Band


General OS Details
the Operating System resource center (OSRC)
Write Your Own Operating System Tutorial
Write your own Operating System, A project of the alt.os.development Usenet discussion group
JOSH - Operating system design & implementation - tutorial


RTOS (Real Time Operating Systems)
DMOZ: RTOS

booting, bootstrapping, & boot code
Resources
OSRC: The Boot Process, Boot sectors, bootable CD-ROMs, examples..
The Boot Sector
Write your own Operating System: PC bootstrap
VnutZ's Domain: Bootstrap Tutorial
How To Program a Bootstrap Loader
FreeSourceCodes.org: Inside a Boot Sector
asmutils, with a-linux

Boot Code Samples and Examples
prints dots after boot, FreeSourceCodes.org: Inside a Boot Sector
Floppy
Mini Floppy boot using NASM
Intel Floppy boot programs
Hard Disk

Linux Specific
Linux i386 Boot Code HOWTO


a-linux & assembly O/S
a-linux


Boot Managers
GRUB
GAG
Smart BootManager
XOSL, Extended Operating System Loader
EtherBoot, network booting
Netboot, Netboot is a packet to boot a computer with an Intel processor over an IP network without access to a hard disk or a diskette


BIOS
Resources
TechFest - BIOS
LinuxBIOS
OpenBIOS

Splashscreens
Talk:How to change the BIOS bootsplash screen

PC Control Cards
PC Weasel 2000

Open Firmware, Forth based chips used in Sun Equipment


FlashRAM Hardware


Compact Flash style card readers
basic setup
Using a USB Card Reader in Linux, mounting using sg_utils
Using Multi-Card Flash Readers

Millicomputing
Adrian Cockcroft's Millicomputing Blog, Open Hardware by the milliWatt

Single Board Computers (SBC)
Teeny weeny Linux SBCs
Single Board Computer (SBC) Quick Reference Guide
Embedded Planet
Axis' developer site
Compulab, The Home of the World's Best Computer-On-Module's

Interconnects
SUMIT
SFF0SIG Sumit(TM)

Pico-ITX Form Factor
Atom squeezes onto Pico-ITX board

CMOS & CCD

Open Source Schematics
see: hardware links: open source SBC

CF Computers
C Data Solutions Contacts
Embedded PC in Compact Flash Form Factor
Linux computer squishes into CompactFlash card

SIMM Form Factor
gumstix.org
gumstix.com, commerical site, sponsor of MIT Space Elevator
AMC Technologies


PDA OS
DMOZ: Top: Computers: Systems: Handhelds: Palm OS: Unix and Linux
handhelds.org
Palm Linux Environment
Linux on Palm Tungsten E
µLinux


USB Stick OS
slax
GoblinX
Mutagenix
Wolvix
Loonix
SPB-Linux 2.0

OS on Network Hardware
LinkSys
Linux on Linksys Wi-Fi Routers
OpenWrt
Linux wireless freedom with OpenWrt
LinksysInfo.org
WRTrouters.com .:. Your Resource for WRT Routers

Cisco


disk image control and (re)booting
FlashRAM and Rebooting


performance monitoring
Solaris
SE Toolkit


SMP (*Symetric Multi Processing) -- multi CPU motherboards
2CPU.com, The one stop source for everything SMP!


Clustering
Resources
Beowulf
Beowulf Underground, Unsanctioned and unfettered information on building and using Beowulf systems
Debian-Beowulf
Linux Virtual Server, The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers
OSCAR, Open Source Cluster Application Resources
The Linux Clustering Information Center

Libraries
openMosix, is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering which turns a network of ordinary computers into a supercomputer.
MOSIX Home, Fork and Forget
LAM/MPI, is a high-quality open-source implementation of the Message Passing Interface specification, including all of MPI-1.2 and much of MPI-2.
MPICH-A Portable Implementation of MPI
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine), includes perl wrapper
Cluster Computing Info Centre, resource list
more messenging based...
Fast Messages (FM) is a low-level messaging layer designed to deliver underlying network's hardware performance to the application, even for small messages.
memory oriented (NUMA, et al)
Distributed Shared Memory Home Pages

sharing USB memory

Docs
Linux Cluster HOWTO
Building a Two-Node Linux Cluster with Heartbeat, Linux Journal Article

also see distributed node computing links (P2P, et al)


pico, nano & mini-ITX
Mainboards
VIA Mainboard Descriptions
CPU
VIA CPUs


Hard Disk (Magnetic Storage)
SCSI
sgutils

also see hardware links: Hardware Links: "Disk" Style Storage


RAID
Base RAID Organizations, RAID Levels Defined
Linux RAID FAQ
The Software-RAID HOWTO, This HOWTO describes how to use Software RAID under Linux.
Software-RAID HOWTO, by Linas Vepstas (linas@linas.org)
Linux IDE-RAID Notes, "How to build an inexpensive large (terabyte) RAID", includes hardware specs
Linux High Performance SCSI & RAID

USB
USB Stick RAID


High-Availability (HA)
High-Availability Linux Project


Filesystems
NAMSYS, homepage for Reiserfs (Reiser4)
The OpenGFS Project, a clustered filesystem.
PVFS2 : A High Performance Parallel File System


File Formats
Wotsit's Format The Programmer's File Format Collection


Network Monitoring
SNMP
SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Making use of SNMP
Network Monitoring & Network Management using NOCOL


Wiki and related tools
PmWiki, supports easy collaborative authoring and maintenance of web sites

DNS and DNS Security


more Link Lists & SysAdmin Resources
Stokely Consulting
Unix Guru Universe


Magazines and Periodicals
SysAdmin
2600: The Hacker Quarterly, with 'OFF THE HOOK' & 'OFF THE WALL' show
Linux Journal
Linux Gazette, online publication
Linux Format, UK 'zine with links to online articles
Linux Magazine: Open Source. Open Standards.
Librenix, Linux System Administration Portal
The Perl Journal


News & Newsletters
kerneltrap.org
The Jem Report :: The Internet's Best Computer Review Site
OSNews.com - Exploring the Future of Computing
NewsForge: The Online Newspaper for Linux and Open Source
freshmeat.net, Open Source news and repository
Open Source Directory, O'Reilly's Open Source and Linux News & Software
GeekNewz - News for the anti social geeks that suffer from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Linux
The Linux Home Page at Linux Online
Linux Electrons, Linux with a hardware slant


OS Specific
DebianBSD
Debian GNU/NetBSD
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
debian-bsd mailing list
The Glibc-bsd-devel Archives

NetBSD
The NetBSD Operating System, Federico Lupi's excellent NetBSD Guide
Latest INSTALL.txt for NetBSD-2.0_RC3-iso

Major Linux Resource Sites
The Linux Documentation Project
Linux From Scratch

Books
FreeBSD system programming


web browser shell
myterm.org

free shell accounts
The biggest Free Shell list on the net :-)
bylur.net
freeshell.org
rootshell.be

Events
Embedded Linux Conference Wiki
CMP - Embedded System Conference Silicon Valley - Home


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