SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Stuff pertaining to the Sisyphean tasks of system administrators.


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NEWS

Slashdot.Org

The best place for breaking information pertaining to non-industry topics, i.e. free and open software, etc.

CMPnet

These folks call themselves "the technology net" cover everything from news to product reviews to stocks to shopping to careers.

CNET

Subtitled "the computer network", these folks cover special reports, gadgets, news and investing, hardware, games, web building, and more.

developer.com

A source for technical information on developing just about any application with any language on any platform.

OS News

Articles and various other features about operating systems.

Tom's Hardware Guide

All the latest poop on every kind of hardware.

Wired News

Computer and related news from the folks at Wired.


METASITES

FAQ.org

All the FAQs categorized and online at a truly marvelous site. The categories most useful for our purposes are:

Internet Meta-Resources

[http://nakedape.navi.net/meta-res/]

sysads.com

A comprehensive reference for sysadmins, i.e. a collection of tutorials, guides, quick references, and technical discussions.

[http://www.sysads.com.ph/]

System Administration Education Links

Sections on related publications, courses, textbooks, commercial training sites, and general web resources.

[http://www.eng.fsu.edu/saed/]

UNIX Guru Universe

The official home page for UNIX sysadmins.

[http://www.ugu.com/]

UNIX Reference Desk

A large collection of documents pertaining to various UNIX flavors and topics.

[http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html]

UNIX Sysadmin Resources

A large collection put together by the folks at Stokely Consulting, a company specializing in UNIX system management.

[http://www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources/index.html]

UNIX System Administration

A somewhat dated (1996) online book that focuses mainly on SunOS with some Ultrix, Digital UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX and AIX.

[http://sunos-wks.acs.ohio-state.edu/sysadm_course/sysadm.html]

UNIX System Administration - A Survival Course

The notes from a course at the University of Washington.

[http://www.washington.edu/R870/R870.html]

USAIL

Unix System Administration Independent Learning, an independent study course for prospective system adminstrators as well as a reference resource.

[http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/]

USENIX

All the USENIX stuff plus the SAGE pages.

[http://www.usenix.org/]

System Administration 85321

A course given at Central Queensland University in New Zealand with lot of good stuff including an online text book.

[http://infocom.cqu.edu.au/Archives/Units/1998/Autumn/85321_Systems_Administration]

Freefire Project

A whomping big computer security project.

[http://sites.inka.de/sites/lina/freefire-l/index.en.html]

BOFH

What being a sysadmin is all about.

http://prime-mover.cc.waikato.ac.nz/Bastard.html
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~akendall/Bastard/
http://www.plig.net/bofh/
http://www.bofh.net/

Satanic Sysadmins

More fun than a barrel of daemons.

[http://satanic.org/]


OPERATING SYSTEMS

A veritable plethora of choices for x86:

Knights of the System Table

An online publication devoted to the practical use of alternative operating systems.


SOFTWARE

Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters

A list of freely available language tols including compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, translators, important libraries, assemblers, and related programs.

Web Tools Review

An entertaining site about such things put together by Philip Greenspun of "Travels with Samantha" fame.

SHELLS

Open Source Shells Webliography

A huge collection of information about shells.

SHELLdorado

An archive of shell scripts and information about shells.