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Haiku operating system

by Roberto on April 25, 2010

in SysAdmin

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Haiku is an operating system inspired by BeOS and specifically designed for personal computing. Haiku is a very responsive operating system, based on a micro kernel structure.
It is written in C++ programming language and has very well documented API.

Some notes from the Haiku main website :

The key highlights that distinguish Haiku from other operating systems include:

  • Specific focus on personal computing
  • Custom kernel designed for responsiveness
  • Fully threaded design for great efficiency with multi-processor/core CPUs
  • Rich OO API for faster development
  • Database-like file system (OpenBFS) with support for indexed metadata
  • Unified, cohesive interface

Haiku is an open source project developed by a community of volunteer developers.
Haiku is growing very fast and a new Alpha release is expected very soon.

I am a huge fan of Haiku and think it will play a major role in personal computing in the coming years.

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eBox Platform : The Linux Small Business Server

by Roberto on April 24, 2010

in SysAdmin

eBox Platform

eBox Platform is a business server solution based on Ubuntu Linux distribution.
eBox Platform is composed by several modules :

  • eBox Gateway
  • eBox UTM
  • eBox Infrastructure
  • eBox Office
  • eBox Unified Communications

Using eBox Platform you can easily set up and manage a server for your working environment : firewall, content filtering, load balancing, mail server, proxy server, print server and vpn server. Complete list of features of version 1.4.
A user friendly web interface simplify the work of the system administrator. See the screenshots of the web interface.

It is possible to install eBox Platform from scratch using the installation CD or install all the necessary modules on a existing Ubuntu 10.04 installation.

I offer services as system administrator on Ubuntu systems eBox Platform.
Contact me if you are interested.

Tagged as: Ubuntu

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Daxtor : SmoothWall firewalls

July 18, 2009
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Daxtor is a company that provides web based applications for the private banking sector. It offers a software platform for private consultants and fund investment management companies through ASP model using Linux, Solaris, Java and Oracle technologies. To protect its servers infrastructure, Daxtor is using now SmoothWall UTM appliances : a special designed hardware running [...]

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Keep in sync two hosts on Internet using LFTP

April 21, 2009

There are many softwares and solutions that permit to keep in sync two or more hosts (like Rsync, Unison, etc), but when the sync must be made through Internet and you have access only to the ftp or http service your choices narrow down. This is the typical situation you can face on a shared [...]

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Using a server service through a SSH tunnel

April 20, 2009

If you have access to a server only through SSH, you can yet access all the others server services without the need to forward other ports on the router or firewall. Here is how : Open a console on your client Type : ssh -L [local port]:localhost:[remote port] [username]@[remote server] From now on you can [...]

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VPN with Tinc

April 12, 2009

Tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet. The configuration and usage are extremely simpler that VPN based on IPSec protocol and is suited for not too complex infrastructures where OpenVPN is a better solution. Tinc is a very [...]

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