Resources

VirtualBox VM Images:

The following link provides a download of a VirtualBox virtual machine (VM) running Debian 9 for 32-bit Windows hosts (with Perl 6 release 2018.06 Star installed):

• Debian 9, with Perl 6

Other links:

• How to make a persistent USB drive (Charlie Locke)
• "Pinpoint," a tool for making hackers do excellent presentations (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Pinpoint).
• "The Nerd Cave," tutorials designed for the novice computer user (https://nerdcave.littlebytesofpi.com/).
• "The Doolittle Institute," a local 501(c)(3) organization which, among other projects, sponsors an annual robotics competition in the local school system (https://doolittleinstitute.org/).
• "The Linux Kernel Archives" (https://www.kernel.org/).
• "What's On Netflix," a site that shows some of the Netflix current selections (https://whatsonnetflix.com/).
• "Inkscape," a cross-platform vector drawing program (https://inkscape.org/en/).
• "config-scripts," a collection of configuration scripts for popular open-source programs (https://github.com/tbrowder/config-scripts/).
• "Minix 3," a BSD-compatible operating system (https://minix3.org/).
• "PiHole," an ad-blocking server for your home network (https://pi-hole.net/).
• "R1Soft Free Tool: Linux Hot Copy," a free universal disk snapshot utility for Linux servers (https://www.r1soft.com/free-tool-linux-hot-copy).
• "News 360," an app (and online) news source for interesting information (https://news360.com/).
• "Linux Journal," an online magazine for Linux users (https://www.linuxjournal.com/).
• The Perl 6 Programming Language, the successor to Perl 5 (https://perl6.org/).
• The Rust Programming Language, designed to be an improved C/C++ (https://www.rust-lang.org/).
• The Linux Foundation, shows major Linux events, training (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/).
• Free online Web Technology courses (https://www.w3schools.com/).
• The D Programming Language, designed to be an improved C++ (https://dlang.org/).
• Doctor Dobb's, a portal for computer programmers and hardware enthusiasts (https://www.drdobbs.com/).
• Raspberry Pi, a mini-computer (https://www.raspberrypi.org/).
• SELinux, a Linux kernel-level security tool (https://selinuxproject.org/).
• Linux Dash, a graphical utility for monitoring remote servers (https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash). An article describing it is here.
• Gnuplot, a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms (https://www.gnuplot.info/).
• The book The Linux Command Line (https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php) is recommended by Mike Kaiser who says the book and its site have "helped me out so much since I started really learning the command line some weeks ago." Note the downloadable PDF version is free.
• Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/) is a high-level Python framework for web sites. It is being considered for this site.
• Fosswiki (https://foswiki.org/) is a free, enterprise collaboration platform being considered for this site.
• Codecademy (https://www.codecademy.com/) is a site dedicated to teaching computer programming.
• Vim, the programmer's power editor (https://www.vim.org/).
• Qualys SSL Labs web site security check (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/).
• DistroWatch, a site that tracks news and page rankings for Linux distributions (https://distrowatch.com/).
• DomainTuno, a web site analysis tool (https://www.domaintuno.com/).