Linux Tips Tricks Apps and Hacks Volume 2 Revised Edition

Unlock the potential of open source operating systems Essential distros - Find out which distro is best for your open-source system's needs. Tips - Secure your network, make packages and much more. Tricks - Use open-source apps to enhance your system. Hacks - Advanced tutorials that focus on customisation and creating. Also inside... Tips - Get started with system administration - Test your network's security - Protect your network - Configure a secure virtual private network - Build your own pro-grade firewall - Host your own webmail server - Deploy Fedora over a network - Make your own DEB and RPM packages - Dual-boot from an external hard drive - Run Linux on an Android device Tricks - Network wirelessly with wicd - Manage your system with Webmin - Synchronise your files with Unison - Make a small business database with LibreOffice - Create and save with a MongoDB database - Maintain and manage all of your machines with Puppet - Visualise directory structures with Graphviz - Edit videos in Kdenlive - Build your own private cloud with ownCloud - Design exciting presentations with Hovercraft - Set up a wireless access point with a Raspberry Pi Hacks - Turbocharge your cloud - Speed up Linux with Openbox - Bypass restrictive firewalls using SSH tunnelling - Create a custom child of Gentoo - Create a custom Linux kernel to optimise performance - Resize your disks on the fly with LVM - Scrape Wikipedia with Beautiful Soup Apps - openSUSE 13.1 RC 1 - Linux Mint 16 RC - Tails 1.2 - Fedora 19 Schrodinger's Cat - LXLE 14.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Geany - Eclipse - wattOS R8 - Dropbox - SpiderOak - Openshot - Kdenlive - Clementine - Banshee Free with this bookazine...... - A walkthrough on creating and saving data with a Mongo DB database - A tutorial on how to design presentations easily with Hovercraft - Three highly recommended distress: Linux Mint, openSUSE and Fedora - All the software you could need to improve your Linux-based projects