What’s Next

These few pages scratch the surface of what can be very deep topics.

There’s a lot you can do as a Linux system administrator that we haven’t covered, including running tasks at particular times, backing up data, applying system security and update patches, preventing griefers, tuning performance, and setting up your own email server—all kinds of fun.

Whole books are written on these topics, and this isn’t one of them. But hopefully this is enough to get you started.

Footnotes

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http://www.windowsazure.com

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POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface, a standard for operating-system compatibility.

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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

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RSA is a public-key-style cryptographic ...

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