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Ciitix-Wifi: turnkey solution for a WiFi hotspot
July 27, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
It is a turnkey solution to your WiFi hotspot needs. Built onto the rock solid stable debian linux, setting up a secure (TTLS) WiFi hotspot is just a minute away.
Website: http://ciitix.ciit.net.pk/index.php/ciitix-wifi
How to: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-an-aaa-server-with-ciitix-wifi
eBox Platform: Linux Small Business Server
March 13, 2010 by christian · 2 Comments
Linux Small Business Server. eBox Platform can act as a Gateway, Infrastructure Manager, Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified Communication Server or a combination of them. One single, easy-to-use platform to manage all your network services. eBox Platform is: Active directory Automatic failover Backup Centralized management Certification authority DHCP DNS Dashboard Filtering Firewall Groupware HTTP proxy IM Infrastructure Intrusion detection system LDAP replication Load balancing Mail server Monitoring Multi-gateway support NAT NTP Network Open Source Reporting Resource sharing Routing / Router Server Small business Traffic rate Traffic shaping Users and groups VLAN VPN VoIP Web server Workgroup.
Website: http://www.ebox-platform.com/
eJabberd Appliance: Combines ejabberd with Speeqe to create a live chat server
An instant messaging server that combines ejabberd with Speeqe to create a live chat server that supports strong encryption and works with any web browser or dedicated XMPP client (e.g., Pidgin). ejabberd is a powerful XMPP server that supports clustering, live upgrades, shared roster groups and provides support for virtual hosts.
This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:
- Preconfigured with exemplary domain (example.com).
- Configured admin@example.com as registration watcher.
- Includes custom ejabberd-config script to change domain and set admin password (set during installation).
- Enabled in-band user registration (usability, convenience).
- Enabled legacy SSL connection method (still required by some clients).
- Set erlang node: ejabberd@localhost (workaround mnesia hostname changes).
- Binded admin console to port 12322 – uses SSL.
- Installed and configured to provide web chat interface.
- Configured ejabberd with anonymous access for speeqe to connect.
- Created ejabberd robot XMPP user for speeqe to list active rooms.
- Includes local JQuery library (internal deployment).
Website: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ejabberd
FreeNAS: Open Source Network-Attached Storage
February 3, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
FreeNAS is an embedded open source NAS (Network-Attached Storage) distribution based on FreeBSD, supporting the following protocols: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI (initiator and target) and UPnP.
It supports Software RAID (0,1,5), ZFS, disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T/email monitoring with a WEB configuration interface (from m0n0wall).
FreeNAS can be installed on Compact Flash/USB key, hard drive or booted from LiveCD.
Website: http://freenas.org/
ClearOS: Network and Gateway server
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
ClearOS is a powerful network and gateway server designed for small organizations and distributed environments. Though ClearOS comes with an extensive list of features and integrated services (see sidebar), the solution is easy to configure thanks to the intuitive web-based interface.
Company website: http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html
Community website: http://www.clearfoundation.com/Community/Home.html
Endian Firewall: full featured security appliance
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Endian Firewall Community is a “turn-key” linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionality. The software has been de signed with “usability in mind” and is very easy to install, use and manage, without losing its flexibility. The features include a stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support, virus and spamfiltering for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic and a “hassle free” VPN solution (based on OpenVPN). The main advantage of Endian Firewall is that it is a pure “Open Source” solution that is sponsored by Endian.
Company website: http://www.endian.com/
Community ebsite: http://www.endian.com/en/community/overview/
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The goal of this website is to give an end to end open source solution for a typical small company including Telephony, Document management, Customer Relation Application, Networking, Remote access, Desktop solutions and so on.
Although only the tools/applications have been listed on the website for the moment, a complete network diagram and individual how-to articles will follow.
Please note that for most of the installation instructions, we will not re-invent the wheel. A large number of very competent experts have already written how-to articles, we will just refer you to those. We will only document the missing links between the different components or if we feel that some installations could be better documented.
The KinDev team.
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Please note that the text for each of the blog post is taken from their respective websites. The KinDev team have experimented with those tools at different occasions. Your need and requirements could be different than the ones identified by our team for a specific situation, please take the time to read and understand the tool/application features before starting to install in a production environment.
We hope that you will have as much fun as we have discovering, installing and using those tools/applications and please do not forget to donate to the respective open source volunteers that have changed the IT landscape for ever.
The KinDev team.