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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><font color="maroon">Linux Site O' The Month: Unix Guru Universe</font></H1>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:slambo@linuxstart.com">Sean Lamb</a></H4>
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<H2>What's This?</H2>
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<P> This article is the the current installment in an ongoing series of site
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reviews for the Linux community. Each month, I will highlight a Linux-related
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site and tell you all about it. The intent of these articles is to let you
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know about sites that you might not have been to before, but they will all have
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to do with some aspect of Linux. Now, on with the story...
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<H2>Unix Guru Universe - "The Official Home Page for Unix System Administrators"</H2>
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<h3><a href="http://www.ugu.com/">http://www.ugu.com</a></h3>
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<P> I can hear you yelling now - "Hey waittaminnitt! This is <i>Linux</i> Gazette,
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not <i>UN*X</i> Gazette!" Just hold your horses, and listen for a moment. Linux
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was originally written as a UNIX clone, right? All right, that may be an
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oversimplification, but the ls command will work the same in UNIX
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as in AIX or *BSD or Linux, right? Well, let's take a look at what we can find.
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<P> Unix Guru Universe (UGU) is a clearing house of information for a great majority of
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UNIX-like operating systems in use today. This includes Solaris, HP-UX, OpenBSD and,
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of course, our beloved Linux. If we follow the link from the UGU home page to the
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list of 80 UNIX flavors (yes, there really are that many), then the link to Linux, we
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are provided with a wealth of information about configuring, adminning and just using
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Linux.
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<P> Included in the Linux Articles section are the Network Administrator's Guide, the
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Firewall and Proxy Server HOWTO and the Linux DNS Howto. The Linux-specific section of
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UGU also has a list of useful FTP and User Group sites as well as links to many of the larger
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distributions (not just Redhat, Caldera and SuSE, but others too like Walnut Creek and
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Yggdrasil). There is also a Linux-specific web bulletin board under the Newsgroup link.
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<P> However, don't forsake the rest of UGU just to get to the Linux-specific information.
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If we look under the Beginners & Users Start Here link, we find helpful general information
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including a brief history of UNIX, an Introduction To The UNIX Operating System, Commonly
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Used Commands, and UNIX Commands For DOS Users.
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<P> Even with these beginner documents, UGU is aimed at the sysadmin who is looking for a
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handy reference on a wide variety of UNIX platforms. UGU's about page says it best:
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<blockquote>
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... UGU was developed for the System Administrators who don't have time to surf/cruise/browse
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the internet looking across the world for the information they seek. It was developed so an
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Admin could go in find what they are looking for quickly and easily and get out. The page is
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for ALL Admins beginners to guru's alike to share.
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</blockquote>
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<P> On the Internet of today, it's hard to find sites that have more and better content than
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flash. UGU faces up to this challenge excellently; this site, aside from the home page, is
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almost entirely graphics free. This means, of course, that the site is exceedingly fast
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loading on even the pokiest of today's dial up connections (it's even tolerable at 2400 baud).
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UGU also avoids the use of tables and doesn't use frames so you can browse the site using almost
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any browser currently available.
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<P> Regular readers of this column will know that I like search engines. For a newbie to any
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site, it is much easier to get a feel for what's available by letting the search engine
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highlight the content that the user is looking for. UGU's search engine is under the Find It
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Fast, Find It Now link on the home page and the Search link at the bottom of each content page.
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UGU's search provided quick and relevant results to my searches, returning information on the
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UGU site as well as links to software developers' sites for further information.
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<P> So, once you get your box up and running and you need information on how to admin it
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efficiently and securely, check out the information at UGU.
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Copyright © 2000, Sean Lamb<BR>
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Published in Issue 50 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, February 2000</H5>
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