Illustrations overview

The Strip Art Project is a small collective of illustrators and comics artists who publish a magazine ( Stripshow , edited by Leonora van Staden) and do freelance work.

Leonora will be providing illustrations for the tuXlab Cookbook. I'm going to be working with her to produce narrative illustrations that present the setup of a tuXlab attractively and informatively.

For example, the lab environment could be drawn, showing all the components and the relations between them: client computers, the LAN, the server, hubs/switches, and the uplink to the internet. On a slightly more abstract level, the concepts of the local network, the gateway, firewall, and the internet could be superimposed on this picture. On the level of software, the major elements of a tuXlab server should be set out, as well as the relation of the client machines to the server: how the boot process works, how logins work, where applications run, where each user's data resides, and so on. In all these cases, some well-considered pictures may save a couple of thousand words.