Yes, Ubuntu can absolutely be the default Windows alternative | And I don't just mean for geeks. I mean a real, viable alternative to Windows for many users despite the apparent quality of both Windows 7 and Server 2008. About a year and a half ago, ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes asked, "Is Ubuntu becoming the generic Linux distro? " and concluded that "the evolution of Ubuntu into the generic Linux distro isn’t a bad thing". Fair enough, but Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth took this idea a bit farther during a press conference call yesterday: "We've already done a lot of work in developer ecosystem and we're now increasingly interested in the non-developer consumer ecosystem, so that's what all the OEM work is about," Shuttleworth said, declaring that his focus was on "making sure that Ubuntu gets pre-installed and Ubuntu is available from Dell.com and others and making sure that Ubuntu is the default alternative to Windows.
" He didn't mention Apple, which, to many consumers, is the only alternative to Windows. This "PC space" is changing, though. Linux Based AccessPoints - Gumph. Linux based Access Points are either a hardware AccessPoint running Linux, that can be modded by the owner, or a standard pc running linux, with software running the AccessPoint.
If you want to run your own custom access point, then the two choices, Build a linux box with a wireless card, and run access point software, which lets you customise the access point as much as you want. Buy an off the shelf access point that is easily modified and either customise the existing firmware, or load a completely new and customizable firmware. With off the shelf wireless access points the main limitations are on the amount of processing power they have, and how much room there is for the firmware. There are lots of software and sites to help you set up a linux access point, and we've rounded up the main options. Linux PC running AccessPoint Software Host AP NoCatAuth An open source captive portal and authentication system. CQure Sisela PersonalTelco's DebianApImage Linux LiveCD Router Linksys WRT54G Comments.
Wireless Tools for Linux. Host AP Linux driver for Intersil Prism2/2.5/3 wireless LAN card. Linux Wireless Access Point HOWTO. Create a secure Linux-based wireless access point. Wi-Fi Protected Access version 2 (WPA2) is becoming the de facto standard for securing wireless networks, and a mandatory feature for all new Wi-Fi products certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. We all know the security weaknesses of its predecessor, WEP; this time they got it right.
Here's how to implement the WPA2 protocol on a Linux host and create a secure wireless access point (WAP) for your network. Most consumer-grade commercial WAPs operate in the same simple manner: they create a bridge between a wired (Ethernet) network interface and a wireless one. That's exactly what we'll do too. My setup is based on Debian Testing (Etch), but any GNU/Linux distribution with a recent 2.6 kernel will work. Before bridging together the two interfaces we must put the wireless interface (in my case ath0; adjust it to match your setup) in hostap or Master mode. Now let's create the bridge. Ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up ifconfig ath0 0.0.0.0 up brctl addbr br0 brctl addif br0 eth0 brctl addif br0 ath0. Bacula Network Backup Implementation in Debian. Bacula Network Backup Implementation in Debian What is bacula ? Continue for Part2 Bacula is a set of computer programs that permits you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
Bacula can also run entirely upon a single computer, and can backup to various types of media, including tape and disk. In technical terms, it is a network Client/Server based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Due to its modular design, Bacula is scalable from small single computer systems to systems consisting of hundreds of computers located over a large network. Bacula Requirements Bacula has been compiled and run on Linux RedHat, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems. It requires GNU C++ version 2.95 or higher to compile. The Tray Monitor program is developed for GTK+-2.x.
Bacula on Debian sid mini-HOWTO | edin.no-ip.com. Customizing runlevels in Debian. Customizing runlevels in Debian Customizing runlevels is an advanced system administration task. The following advice holds for most services. To enable service in runlevel create the symbolic link /etc/rc.d/S with target .. /init.d/. The sequence number should be the sequence number that was assigned to the service when the package was installed. To disable the service, rename the symbolic link so that its name begins with a K instead of with an S and its sequence number is 100 minus . It is convenient to use a runlevel editor such as sysv-rc-conf or ksysv for these purposes. It is possible to delete the S symlink for a service in a particular runlevel directory instead of renaming it. It is not advisable to make any changes to symlinks in /etc/rcS.d/. Make Debian boot faster. Techno Wizah: Debian HOW-TO : Writing to NTFS. Last revision : April 29th, 2007 On July 14th, Szakacsits Szabolcs, a developer for the Linux-NTFS project published a major update of the Linux NTFS driver.
It is now possible to write to an NTFS partition in a safe manner. I've tested it for months now and I have yet to report any issue. In fact, I have had more troubles with the old NTFS driver which allowed read-only operations on NTFS partitions. On February 21th, 2007, the first stable release of NTFS-3G was released as version 1.0. So here we go... Installation On Debian Etch First, download NTFS-3g. 2 packages are needed here: ntfs-3g and libntfs-3g. Wget Then install the dependencies: sudo apt-get install fuse-utils libfuse2 Finally you can install ntfs-3g (using the 2 Debian packages you just downloaded): Tips.