I just found this series of articles. Some really good looking stuff here. Although its on the gentoo site, most of it isn't particularly gentoo specific:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/articles.xml Theres something for every taste, scripting, setting up file systems, ssh, all sorts of stuff: LPI Certification 101 Exam Prep Part 1: Linux fundamentals Part 2: Basic administration Part 3: Intermediate administration Part 4: Advanced administration 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 GNOMEnclature: Getting ready for GNOME 2 (Part 1) Introduction to XFree86 4.x 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 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 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 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 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? 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 Linux hardware stability guide Part 1, CPU and memory troubleshooting Part 2, Drivers, IRQs, and PCI latency 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 OpenSSH key management Part 1, Understanding RSA/DSA authentication Part 2, Introducing ssh-agent and keychain Part 3, Agent forwarding and keychain improvements Learning Linux LVM Part 1, Storage management magic with Logical Volume Management Part 2, The cvs.gentoo.org upgrade 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 Partitioning in action Moving /home: A step-by-step partition moving how-to Consolidating data: Moving /tmp and /var to their own shared partition Linux 2.4 Software RAID Part 1, Installation and a general introduction Part 2, Setting up RAID-1 in a production environment Maximum swappage Linux 2.4 stateful firewall design (tutorial) Dynamic iptables firewalls Compiling the Linux kernel Samba domain controller support: Integrating Samba into an NT environment Prompt magic: Enhancing the system prompt CVS for the developer or amateur (tutorial) vi intro -- the cheat sheet method (tutorial) Rebol scripting basics (tutorial) Fast Web browsing with a caching proxy (tutorial) Getting to know GRUB (tutorial) JFS fundamentals (tutorial) Backing up your Linux machines (tutorial) Partition planning tips: How to keep things organized on disk Compiling and installing software from sources (tutorial) Upgrading applications from sources Linux clustering with MOSIX (tutorial) Inside Samba 2.2: New, improved, and enterprise-ready -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
