# Awesome Resources [](https://awesome.re)

Contents

1. Introduction
   • Contributing
2. Communities
3. Business/Career
4. Services
5. Software
6. Programming
7. Ethics, Law & Professionalism
   • Ethics
   • Guidance
   • Professionalism & Standards
   • Proposed legislation
   • Law
8. Learning Resources
9. Linux Distributions
10. Sysadmin
11. Electronics
12. Hypervisors and virtual machines
    • Andrew Hancock, VMware vExpert PRO
    • Hancock’s VMware Half Hour
13. Cyber Security Resources
    • 13.1 Digital Warfare and Geopolitics
14. Other Interesting Stuff

Guides/Cheatsheets

1. Well known port numbers
2. How to use SSH
3. Linux Command Map
4. Getting started with Ansible

Linux Distributions

1. Ubuntu - Great starting distributions for beginners as lots of support is available.
2. Fedora
3. Arch - Advanced distribution for those looking to expand their knowledge of Linux.
4. Anarchy and ALG - These are menu/graphical installers for Arch linux, can be useful for those wanting to try out Arch without doing everything from the command line.
5. Artix - A systemd-free alternative to Arch.
6. Kubuntu - Ubuntu with an alternative desktop environment (KDE).
7. Lubuntu - Ubuntu using LXQT, a lightweight alternative to other desktop environments.
8. Mint - Another variant of Ubuntu, great for those familiar with Windows.
9. Tails - A portable distribution that runs only in memory, for the ultimate privacy protection.
10. Qubes OS - A reasonably secure operating system. Recommended by Edward Snowden
11. Raspberry Pi OS - For use with the range of Raspberry Pi single board computers. A great distribution if you’re looking to get into programming (and don’t mind spending a bit of money on the hardware to run it), especially involving Python or electronics (the Pis can come with GPIO pins for use with electronics). There are some beginner projects listed on the site but there are a lot of projects made by the Pi community.
12. Rescatux - An Debian based os which has utilities to help repair potentially broken Linux or Windows systems as well as boot loaders.

    Linux Resources

13. Arch Linux Wiki - Permissions
14. Arch Linux Docs - SSH
15. Configure 2FA on SSH
16. Desktop Environments
17. Install and Configure SSH Server on Arch Linux
18. OpenSSH Manual
19. Principle of Least Privilege
20. Introduction to Linux - Hands on guide to learn Linux.
21. Learn Shell - Learn programming with Unix/Linux shell interpreters.
22. Linux Upskill Challenge - Learn the Linux terminal with a free and open source 21 day course
23. Ask Ubuntu - Ubuntu Q&A site. Part of Stack Exchange.
24. Unix & Linux Stack Exchange - For more general Linux-related questions.

NGINX

1. How to Redirect URL in NGINX

Powershell

1. Introduction to Powershell
2. Powershell Learning Resources
3. Have PowerShell trigger an action when CPU or memory usage reaches certain values
4. PowerShell Changing the WMI Timeout Value for a Series of WMI Queries
5. Powershell benchmarking module built around measure command
6. Example PowerShell function for validating an IPv6 address
7. Open-source PowerShell RSI Calculator (Relative Strength Index)
8. How To Check If A File Exists With PowerShell
9. How to Check If A Folder Exists With PowerShell
10. PowerShell Cmdlet for Splitting an Array
11. PowerShell Executables File Systeem Locations
12. PowerShell ForEach Loops/Objects
13. PowerShell Get-MountPointData Cmdlet
14. PowersShell Java Autoupdate 15 PowerShell Multi-line Comments
15. PowerShell Prompt for Password Convert Securestring to plain text
16. A Simple Example Of Running A PowerShell Command With PsExec
17. Powershell regex to accurately match IPV4 address
18. Regular Expressions in PowerShell
19. Splitting on Whitespace Using the PowerShell -split Operator
20. Powershell vs Perl at text processing
21. Powershell Scripts (Paloalto Networks)
22. Powershell by Example
23. Learn Powershell- PowerShell.org

    Tools

24. Cloudron