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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/
Ekiga: SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger.
February 13, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application over the Internet.It supports HD sound quality and video upto DVD size and quality.It is interoperable with many other standard compliant softwares, hardwares and service providers as it uses both the major telephony standards (SIP and H.323). Ease of use with a modern Graphical User Interface. Audio and Video free calls through the internet. Free Instant Messaging through the internet with Presence support. Audio (and video) calls to landlines and cell phones with support to the cheapest service providers. High Definition Sound (wideband) and Video Quality up to DVD quality (high framerate, state of the art quality codec and frame size). Free of choice of the service provider. SMS to cell phones if the service provider supports it (like the default provider). Standard Telephony features support like Call Hold, Call Transfer, Call Forwarding, DTMF. Remote and Local Address Book support: Remote Address Book support with authentification using the standard LDAP technology, Local Address support in Gnome (Evolution). Multi platform: Windows and GNU/Linux. Wide interoperability: Ekiga use the main deployed stantards for telephony protocols (SIP and H.323) and has been tested with a wide range of softphones, hardphones, PBX and service providers.
Website: http://www.ekiga.org/
Synergy: Share a mouse and keyboard between computers
February 10, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all.
Website: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
TightVNC: Remote control software
February 7, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. TightVNC is:
* free for both personal and commercial usage, with full source code available (GPL-licensed);
* useful in remote administration, remote customer support, education, and for many other purposes;
* cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, compatible with other VNC software.
Website: http://www.tightvnc.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
Pidgin: Chat on multiple chat networks simultaneously.
February 7, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.
Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Looking for Pidgin for OS X? Try Adium!
Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins.
Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin’s functionality above and beyond the standard features.
Website: http://www.pidgin.im
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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.