Good Admin Guide

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Overview

Below is an overview of the areas that the Good Admin Guide should cover. The scope is broad as it is intended to leave the reader with a good grounding of the nature and history of the Internet, open source and theoretical and practical aspects of system administration and architecture. It is the author's opinion that all of these areas are intimately connected and should be presented together.

Quite a lot of introductory material is being imported from Wikipedia (in accordance with the license). This material will then be modified to better suite the purpose of this document. The Good Admin Guide will be released under CC-BY-SA.

• Free and Open Source Software
  • History
    • Software Licensing
    • Free and Open Source Software terminology
  • Open Source Software
    • FSF
    • SPI
    • OSI
    • SFLC
    • SFC
  • Linux
    • Distributions
      • Debian
    • Linux Foundation
    • Linux International
    • Tux
  • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
  • IRC
    • Freenode
    • OFTC
  • Licensing
  • How it works
    • Code Forks
  • Business Models
  • Discussion about specific projects
    • MySQL and its forks
  • Creative Commons
    • Humans have always cooperated in a community to achieve aims
• Networking
  • History
    • Arpanet
    • CompuServe
    • America Online
    • Microsoft Network
    • The Internet
    • Usenet
  • ICANN
  • IANA
    • Jon Postel
  • RIRs
    • AfriNIC
    • APNIC
    • ARIN
    • LACNIC
    • RIPE NCC
  • IETF
  • NANOG
  • AusNOG
  • IPv4
  • IPv6
• Network Administration & Architecture
  • Good Admin Guide/Network Design
    • WiFi
  • Network Theory
    • OSI model and TCP/IP
  • Network Practice
  • Network Diagnostics
  • Firewalls
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Intrusion Prevention Systems
• System Administration and Architecture
  • History
  • Power and Ethics
  • Change Management
    • Traditional
    • DevOps
  • Systems Design
    • RAID
  • Unix
  • DNS
  • Email
  • Host Naming
    • Host naming guidelines
  • Performance Optimisation
  • Virtualisation
  • Monitoring
  • Backups
  • Disaster Recovery
• Databases
  • MySQL and forks
  • Postgresql
  • Centralised DB server vs local DB servers
• Glossary