Evening all hackers.

I am beggining to use linux soon and was wondering if anyone could give me any links or tuts that are usefull for hacking with linux. So far ive been learning about commands etc. But i thought that someone could show me something i dont know about.
Please help.
Thanks in advance

Int3rface

Well, I would start small.... don't worry about the 'hacking' part of linux until you're comfortable using it. Teach yourself basic commands and work your way up; for example, instead of using pre-compiled packages (e.g. rpms etc.), try installing things manually. If you have problems, just ask. Most linux users (here and on linux-specific forums/chats) will be more than happy to help you.

Quite simply: Don't expect to learn it all overnight.

Cheers,
~BC

Thanks buddychrist. I will start small. Nothing wrong with windows but linux is like king.
Thanks for the advice

Int3rface

Heyho,
I didn't want to start a new topic, so I'll post here.
Linux Server - Now I agree with rhican, Ubuntu is cooler XD
Linux vs Windows - Seems as Linux is chosen by many users for solving challenges

Yesterday I wanted to make an image of my linux computer, so that I don't have to configurate everything again if I get problems.
So I read a bit about remastersys and I managed to create an image. Now I want to create an Ubuntu system that is perfect for solving challenges


Here is my question:
What programs do you think do I need? I want to have the image as small as possible, but I definetly don't want to have to install something after installing the image.
I thought of:

• Apache2 with PHP and Mysql
  
• Konquerror (Systembrowser) instead of the preinstalled dolphin
  
• Kate (Editor)
  
• OpenOffice
  
• Ark (Archiver and Kompimizing-Tool)
  
• KPDF
  
• Gimp
  
• FileZilla
  
• FireFox (Add-ons: Adblock Plus, CustomizeGoogle, Live HTTP Headers, Mouse Gestures, StumbleUpon, Tab Mix Plus)
  
• Kopete
  
• KTorrent
  
• TeamSpeak
  
• Audacity
  
• K3B (Burner)
  
• VLC Player
  
• Synaptic Packet managing
  

Are there better alternatives for Ark? Is it possible to install Cain on Ubuntu (how? only with wine?)
My image has 800 MB atm and I want to reduce it to 700 MB ... do you know if the files in /var/www and /home are also in the backup?
I just don't want to forget anything

edit: I have another question to our linux experts: can I remove *.bak files if my system is working?

Beryl is pretty nice too.

-Bander

Hi moose,

i am no linux expert, but i think ".bak" files are backups created by the K editors, and can be deleted without any problem.

I am on linux since about 3 months, using gentoo and miss "mpg321" or "imp3sh" as a console audio player in your software list.
Also check out Code::Blocks and Eclipse, when you like to code some stuff.

i wouldn't go around deleting .bak files

standard for most situations is to call backupfiles

filename.ext~

with the trailing tilde, Though on some distro's, tere are some bak files from important config files in /var somewhere iirc,

on *.nix file extentions are rather meaningless though so proceed with caution

rhican, you are right. backupfiles are commonly named "file~",
but i think backup files can be deleted anytime when a system is running fine.

it's not because you can that you should.

feel free to delete anything you want, feel free even to issue

find / -iname '*\.bak' -exec rm '{}' ';'

but if things break don't be too surprised.
caution is for wimps